Chicks Aren't Funny: Old ladies are funny, silly

Posted at 3:24 PM Dec 28, 2009

By Andrea Grimes

Today we addressed the issues of old people (hopefully not) filming their sex acts and old people peeing their britches, so why not include some old people--and specifically, old ladies--being funny? All in the name of sexual health education, no less.

The Don't Drop The Ball campaign would like you to remember not to text grandma and, oh, yeah, use emergency contraception if you accidentally bang a dude raw dog on New Year's Eve.

This precise question was asked of the National Institute for Reproductive Health's Don't Drop The Ball Campaign by Broadsheet's Kate Harding:

Samantha Levine, director of marketing and media relations for the National Institute for Reproductive Health, told me on the phone, "Obviously, I think we'd all agree that the onus shouldn't be solely on women," but they nixed the idea of encouraging men to take responsibility for emergency contraception for fear of anti-choice backlash. "Not that we ever want to cater to the antis," she said, "but there is this mythology out there that men will get women drunk and then force them to take EC," thanks to the usual "paternalistic concern that the woman's not a conscious player" in her own sexual and reproductive choices.

Ohfercrissakes.

I love the slip from "get women drunk" to "force them to take EC." Who knows what that mysterious middle step is that would necessitate EC in the first place? Is it a picnic? I bet it's a picnic!

I don't even know what to think about a man who would rape a woman and then later hold her down and force her to take Plan B. And I sure don't know what to think about a reproductive health organization that is so afraid of offending the four anti-choice nutbags who are actually worried about said rape scenario that they avoid making a gender-neutral EC video.

Oh well--why make men responsible for their sexual behavior when it might offend some nutbags? Anyway, I'm sure the aforementioned crazies are not at all offended by senior citizen ladies reading sexually suggestive text messages in a hilarious ad about unprotected sex and a pill which they almost certainly consider to be an abortion, anyway.