I was told that "boys are more visual" than girls and that's why boys liked pornography more than girls. IT's also why girls shouldn't dress too sexy lest they entice their boyfriends. Even at age 14 I knew then was a load of sexist bull. I wouldn't exactly call my education AO, but we were lied to about just how effective condoms and hormonal birth control are. (Oh and the pill makes you gain 5-10 pounds! The horror! Yes, that was a major con against the pill to them.)
One particularly telling video series we had to watch seemed both racist and misogynistic on so many levels. One girl had her boyfriend get her drunk and pretty much raped her when you consider she could barely stand in the segment I saw. Yet it was her fault she ended up with an STD and pregnant because she "allowed" him to get her drunk, the slut. Oh, and her only option was to keep the baby. (And she was going to have to put on 25-30 pounds during pregnancy! Poor girl cried over that more than finding out she was pregnant.) They did show an actual rape, and of course it was one of the African American actors who raped and what happened with the white couple was not rape, though by legal definition these days it is.
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Date: 2007-12-28 05:16 pm (UTC)One particularly telling video series we had to watch seemed both racist and misogynistic on so many levels. One girl had her boyfriend get her drunk and pretty much raped her when you consider she could barely stand in the segment I saw. Yet it was her fault she ended up with an STD and pregnant because she "allowed" him to get her drunk, the slut. Oh, and her only option was to keep the baby. (And she was going to have to put on 25-30 pounds during pregnancy! Poor girl cried over that more than finding out she was pregnant.) They did show an actual rape, and of course it was one of the African American actors who raped and what happened with the white couple was not rape, though by legal definition these days it is.
Hmmm, I should write about this. :)