No Controversy
Sep. 12th, 2012 01:41 pmI was watching Where's the Controversy in Saving Lives?--
(If you haven't seen it yet, is a cute, fun look at the advantages to society that contraception and family planning produce. Stop 600,000 children dying every year! Save money on housing & public services! Get women out their working so they can boost the economy!)
--and it reminded me of a line I read last night, in an article entitled, The problem with Naomi Wolf's vagina, which went:
"There are Women Like Us--straight, white, wealthy professional writers and our circle of friends--and then there are Women In Africa, and never the twain shall meet as part of the same spectrum of structural violence and disenfranchisement."
It's that gap that makes issues like family planning problematic, but the video is trying to address that (these aren't Women in Africa, these are Women Everywhere and you too) in a fun (non-threatening) way.
The related website has rows of personal experience comments (see under the video) from women in both groups, or even in the gap between the two (they must be falling down a lot). An interesting campaign.
(If you haven't seen it yet, is a cute, fun look at the advantages to society that contraception and family planning produce. Stop 600,000 children dying every year! Save money on housing & public services! Get women out their working so they can boost the economy!)
--and it reminded me of a line I read last night, in an article entitled, The problem with Naomi Wolf's vagina, which went:
"There are Women Like Us--straight, white, wealthy professional writers and our circle of friends--and then there are Women In Africa, and never the twain shall meet as part of the same spectrum of structural violence and disenfranchisement."
It's that gap that makes issues like family planning problematic, but the video is trying to address that (these aren't Women in Africa, these are Women Everywhere and you too) in a fun (non-threatening) way.
The related website has rows of personal experience comments (see under the video) from women in both groups, or even in the gap between the two (they must be falling down a lot). An interesting campaign.
