I hope they get sued by Chris Tucker and the people from "The Fifth Element" since that flight attendant is a thinly veiled Ruby Rhod.

Though, of course, Tucker and company being Hollywierd, they may well have approved the idea.

And it's not "safer sex" they want to normalize. It's hooking up with strangers. "Everybody just bangs whoever happens to be sitting next to them on the plane! You don't want to be the party pooper, do you? You want to be one of the (What's the word they use now for "cool" or "groovy?") people!

I swear, PP won't be happy until nobody can leave the house to walk the dog without shagging a stranger in the park.
Christina | Homepage | 01.03.08 - 4:58 am | #

You're right, Christina. It's all about exercising one's Right to Boink. Margaret Sanger once told her granddaughter that the proper frequency for sex was three times a day. Yup. Gotta meet that quota.
C.J. | 01.03.08 - 7:52 am | #

It's not even a right to boink. It's more, "What the hell is the matter with you?!? You hit puberty nearly twenty minutes ago and you're STILL a virgin! Get with the program!"
Christina | Homepage | 01.03.08 - 8:50 am | #

Point well taken, therefore...

Revising and amending: You have a sacred duty to exercise your Right to Boink®. Right to choose? Hah! You have none. Drop your drawers and get busy! We can fix any unpleasant consequences that may result. Don't worry. Be happy. Here's our rate card.

Crude, perhaps. Accurate, no question.
C.J. | 01.03.08 - 9:39 am | #

Interesting to see a fast-lane gay sexual ethos superimposed on hetero women, few of whom really want the barren aftermath of the 'Sex in the City' shagadelic lifestyle (one of Dawn's core messages). The whole toss-condoms-to-the-crowd thing is geared more to the basest sexual mores of the male animal--which, in fast-lane gay life, reach their nadir, free of women and their darn civilizing tendencies to "commitment" and "procreation." It's such a pernicious fantasy that sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose...
Brenda from Flatbush | Homepage | 01.03.08 - 10:20 am | #

Well said, Brenda!
Dawn Eden | 01.03.08 - 11:43 am | #

Near the end of "A Superhero for Choice", Dianysis says, "We've been around for 89 years. We must be doing something right!"

What impeccable logic.

Imagine a Klansman saying, "We've been around for 142 years. We must be doing something right!"
John Jansen | Homepage | 01.03.08 - 2:15 pm | #

I found "A Superhero for Choice" to be highly offensive, but this new one doesn't bother me.

Then again, I see a huge difference between saying, "It's perfectly normal and okay to have sex" and saying, "It is abnormal to NOT have sex." I don't believe that one implies the other.
L. | Homepage | 01.03.08 - 2:32 pm | #

A whole case of Airborne! wouldn't get rid of the nastiness you could catch on a plane like that!

Sweet, sweet "love"? PPGG has absolutely no idea what the word even means.

Given birth control failure rates - particularly from PP's own distribution of condoms, it would be interesting to show a CBR-like followup to this commercial, along with perhaps a few STD burials, on-going cases etc.

I'm with you Dawn - were US taxpayer dollars used for that drivel?
Chris Arsenault | 01.03.08 - 4:07 pm | #

Actually, I find it really odd that a "progressive" organization like PP would fall upon the "super-diva-queen" homosexual stereotype to promote its' product.

All in all, I'm out of the target audience by a year or two, but I find this ad more annoying than anything else. It leaves a "What the hell was that?" aftertaste rather than any sort of lesson on "safe" sex.
C., Esq. | 01.03.08 - 5:46 pm | #

... "super-diva-queen" homosexual stereotype...

Remember, it is PP Golden Gate, after all. One region's sterotype is another region's camp.
L. | Homepage | 01.04.08 - 8:58 am | #

Ye gads, how distasteful was that?? Still, there are no surprises there.

I wrote to my senators about defunding PP back after that terrible Superhero for Choice ad. One sent me a boilerplate non-response. The other never bothered to respond at all. And they are conservatives! I doubt it will help but I will try again, now that Sen. Brownback has made the effort to start the defund ball rolling.
Colleen | 01.04.08 - 11:40 am | #

I would contact my senators. Unfortunately, they are Boxer and Feinstein.
SouthCoast | 01.04.08 - 9:29 pm | #

"Remember, it is PP Golden Gate, after all. One region's sterotype is another region's camp....."

I guess I see your point, L., but I really find it so outrageous that I can't believe it is not offensive. Even if only because it seems uncomfortably like a 45 year-old man trying to use hip slang.

It is not the first PP spot that I have seen with ridiculous stereotype: on their website I have viewed such tidbits as one, which is, as far as I can tell, one of the only things they have with information on homosexuality:
http://www.teenwire.com/interact...- homosexual.php

A friend who is SSA, who also thought this was strange and offensive, pointed out to me that, among other mind-boggling aspects of this very wierd video, it intrigued him that the alien goes "poof" every three seconds. In Australia, where he lives, "poofter" is derogatory slang for a gay man.
Anonymous | 01.07.08 - 1:14 am | #

oops-- didn't mean to publish anon. That was me above.
--Corita
corita | 01.07.08 - 1:15 am | #

"It leaves a "What the hell was that?" aftertaste rather than any sort of lesson on "safe" sex."

C., esq.:

Try viewing that video I connected to above. I can't for the life of me figure out how it advances any understanding about sexuality.
corita | 01.07.08 - 1:17 am | #

Corita:

Is it possible for one's brain to have whiplash?
C., Esq. | 01.07.08 - 9:20 pm | #

Corita that was weird. I took the test and passed so the next time someone tells me I don't understand I can say "yahuh I passed the quiz". I am going to do laundry now. Its monotonous but atleast it just numbs my brains instead of frying them.
JosephineM-0_6 | 01.08.08 - 11:26 am | #

It may have begun with Sanger in her zeal to "purify" the American population but one only has to examine the ludicrous amount of money being made these days to see that PP has morphed from a Negro population control machine into a cash machine. As for those reaching for the COMMENT button in regard to the "N" word, check it out at: http:// www.citizenreviewonline.o...gro_project.htm

As for the last comment about these folks going to hell ... first they have to believe in it, dear. And if they did, they wouldn't be at PP in the first place, eh!

And I also saw the phrase, "safe sex" mentioned above. Ha ha. That is probably the most amusing thing to come out of PP and their hero down at your local school system, Dr. Kinsey. An acknowledged homosexual pedophile, his so-called study in how people aged "6 months to 60 years" (and yes he did the research on the infants himself of course) can be manipulated into sexual frenzy -- of course he didn't word it quite that way to the NEA -- is the basis for most of the so-called sex education programs in use today. Not sure? Recently, a Colorado high school invited a panel of experts from UofC's Conference on World Affairs to speak to high schoolers. The students were probably more than a little surprised when they were told that (1) sex and drugs are okay when experimented with appropriately, (2) same sex and opposite sex and who knows what else was encouraged, and (3) please go have sex since we know you're going to be doing it anyhow. Oh, yeah: http://michellemalkin.com/2007/0...blic-education/

Also mentioned here:
http://www.wnd.com/news/ article....RTICLE_ID=55800

And here:
http:// www.rockymountainnews.com...5543106,00.html

Think this is an isolated case? Ask the local school board for a copy of the material they plan to use for their sex education program. Their reaction will tell you all you need to know. And if they manage to pull it off with a straight face, the material will tell the rest of the story.

Good luck parents. I am so glad mine are grown up and managed to learn the difference between love and smut before this present age.
jim | 01.29.08 - 7:23 pm | #

That is one of the most disgusting ads I have seen. Shame on PPH. What is wrong with them...SICK,SICK and more SICK...............
Anonymous | 01.30.08 - 11:26 pm | #

I think it's sad when a parent, or parents have to ask a school to show them what will be taught to our kids. I remember back in the 60's when there was going to be something taught (I'd brought something I can't remember what it was), home to show my mom. She immediately called the school and told the principle I was in no way going to be involved in
it. After that (she shouldn't have needed to make that call to begin with) they sent a note home with the kids to get the parents permission for the children to participate. Now days, the kids aren't given anything for parents to make a choice one way of another if it will be taught. They just use very innocent looking titles to very sick subjects to make parents think things are a ok.
I've seen this kind of thing via friends and relatives who have kids in public schools. And the public school system wonders why so many parents are pulling their kids out and either putting them into private schools, or home schooling their kids themselves. It's become one very sad day in time.
Barb | 01.31.08 - 7:55 am | #