Why they think like they think.

I have some good news for the So-Cons. As it happens, minority women have a greater chance of developing HPV. Yes. Yes. I'm guessing that there are some folks out there who are somewhat overjoyed to hear that, as I'm quite certain when the word "STD" comes up, the minds of some of our more backwards friends revert to the mental dialog of "Well, good thing STD's are mostly in the ghetto". There's clearly a racial undertone to the wingnuttery - after all it ain't a coincidence that the most outspoken critics of the HPV vaccination are white.

If you're not completely on board with the notion that there are issues where sex and race can lead to an interesting tapestry of bigotry, not to mention how christocons are more than willing to sacrifice a societal good in favor of on paper sexual morality, you can check Chicagoist for a near perfect example.

Rep. Bobby Rush and two co-sponsors introduced a bill to the U.S. House of Representatives in January that would allow groups to hand out condoms to inmates. The Tribune reports that inmates are 5 times more likely to contract HIV than others.

The debate is controversial for a few reasons. Most apparent are the reasons that faith based groups have, which is their on message mantra that first ascribes to abstinence only. Handing out condoms, they believe, would also encourage homosexuality. This is to be expected, as this debate has been going on for years.

The heads of these faith based groups are obviously either have heads crammed extremely far up their ass if they believe that you can promote "abstinence only" to help with rape situations that occur in prison, or just looking to punish those who rape (or get raped - perhaps just considering infection as a part of their payment on their debt to society) by ommitting of action giving people AIDS. One would think, that there would be at least some mild understanding that prison sex is actually rape, rarely an instance of actual homosexual behavior in that case - and show some relative compassion by maybe giving some of these folks a fighting chance to not get a highly deadly virus.

That's one of those places where SoCon moral ideas of sex override what is clearly a greater societal good. To put it succinctly, when an individual who got raped in prison gets out, he's going to go back to his wife and/or girlfriend and be yet another distributor of HIV regardless of 'abstinence only' teaching. We're all aware of how quickly the walking dead can stack from one carrier and that giving one person this omission of action type death penalty is actually akin to giving several people the death penalty. Based on a lot of their views on who's actually in the prisons (and perhaps validated in numbers) once can only assume that while they were horrified to find out that HIV/AIDS is not 'just a gay problem', they're more than interested in making it a minority problem via policy like this. It's a subtle undertone of racism, but it's definitely there.

Anyway, there's also some bad news for the socially disConnected. Women who live in rural areas are also highly at risk to get HPV, a fact which I'm sure strikes straight at the heart of most of the wingers who are almost always under the impression that none of that glorifyin' the lord outside the bonds of holy matrimony is going on in Tiny Town USA, rather it's a problem for the big cities. That starkly contrasts with the reality of towns and townys - where when the 'fun' thing to do on a Friday night is to hop in the pick'em up trucks, slowly driving down main street from the gas station to the video store, and making a return trip to pick up beer and sip it in the parking lot of the local Winn Dixie - thus kids are bored, thus kids are screwing.

As a matter of fact, just for statistical awareness of just how prominent this HPV is and just how at risk young women are to catch it, you should check out the the LA Times to get an a dose of reality as to where this all might very well head:

As many as 60% of men ages 18 to 70 are infected with HPV, according to data not yet published, raising the question of whether the new vaccine will be effective in reducing diseases linked to the virus unless men, not just women, are immunized.

It's well worth mention because men don't really enter into the discussion regardless of the fact that it's an issue for both genders. You see, one of the hallmarks of the So-Con architecture is that women should always be held to a higher standard than men in terms of sexual behavior. Consider for a moment, in our recent exhibit of Stanek's attempted slut shaming of Debbie Halvorson, if that instead the object to be shamed was a male. Odds are, Stanek wouldn't have the necessary amount of gumption to even attempt it and even if she were to, the "wouldn't abstinence be better, sir?" argument would fall squarely on it's face and probably be laughed off - even by the largely Christo-Con audience, because women never control a man's sex life.

It's a fact that while sexual empowerment amongst women is highly discouraged to the point where daughters should be made scared for their lives from sexual activity but for young men there's an expectation that they will experiment, without any presence of mind that while fathers may be secretly proud that their son has earned the nickname "Virgin Surgeon" in his homeroom class there's several daughters who have been dubbed slut in the same room.

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