One thing I never understood about HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention is why religious groups are so belligerent when it comes to the issue at hand. On a more global scale there's the stance of the Catholic Church. It's long been their stance that condoms aren't the solution to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa -- a bit dimwitted and dogmatic in my opinion, but it's not too overreaching. Enter Pope Benedict, stage left. For those of you keeping score at home, you may know that in May he said that not only are condoms not the answer -- they make the problem worse! Lovely -- now we've got the most revered religious leader in the world taking a medieval stance in no way supported by reason...color me not surprised I suppose?
Now last year when we did the HIV/AIDS awareness booth it just so happened to be the same day that some religious...*ahem*...fellow was preaching across the way. The timing was really too perfect. It was also too perfect that he had an absolutely medieval view of HIV. Apparently it came from someone having "buttsex with a monkey," who knew?
And then this monkey-fish-frog had butt sex
with that monkey, and that monkey had a mutant
retard baby that screwed another monkey...
Oh and HIV is a plague "send by God to kill off all the homos." Well it looks like God did a pisspoor job of being selective with his plague, huh? This guy was clearly full of intellectual gems (and don't worry, today's Awesome Video is soooo related). So anyway I had some fun with him and got him riled on a couple of occasions -- and bam, quotes from me ended up on the front page of the Kentucky Kernel. I guess I should feel special?
The other amazing part of handing out condoms to the undergrads was how much of a target it was for guys to imply how big their junk is. I'm not being diminutive here either -- it was hilarious that 75% of the black guys all walked up just to ask "YOU GOT ANY MAGNUMS?" loudly, and then visibly restrained themselves from checking to see if anyone heard them. Wish I could pull that one off and have anyone take me seriously.
ATTENTION LADIES: I AM NOW PURCHASING MAGNUM CONDOMS
Related awesome (as promised)...it's the same guy but at Mississippi State:
Tomorrow I'll be posting the post-SPE round-up. I'm feeling extra funky fresh about that so you don't want to miss it.
After watching the AIDS documentary, I'm so in the know. How can the PY1s help, other than wearing red tomorrow?
ReplyDeleteVolunteering to be over at the student center to spread awareness is an awesome way to interact with the rest of campus *and* get your community service. I'd also highly recommend attending convocation if/when we have the AIDS patient back that we usually have every year. It's an awesome story/exposure to stick under your belt.
ReplyDeleteDidn't we have that Preacher up here on campus. I know that he was at WKU. If he comes back we have to all do that to him. Priceless
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Oh yeah, that was the same guy there when I volunteered for World AIDS day. If you go to kykernel.com and search "Michael Venyah" you'll find the article. I'm the angry disbelieving man that gets quoted.
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