This has GOT to be one funniest freeper posts EVER!

[Fuzz]

Ortho is promoting promiscuity and unsafe sex in young UNMARRIED women.

A commercial for birth control devices by OrthoEvra shows a young woman saying:

"My life goes a million miles a minute, so remembering to take the pill every DAY can be such a hassle. So I thought the weekly patch might be a good thing."


The problem is, this young woman is NOT wearing a wedding or engagement ring on her left hand's 'ring' finger but she is instead wearing a large EXTREMELY OBVIOUS ring on her NEXT finger (closer to her thumb) which typically indicates an unattached woman who is 'available' and 'on the market'.

This actress was encouraged, I.M.O, to flash her 'ring hand' many times throughout the commercial, including several close-ups with her left hand by her face. By comparison, this woman (who statistically would be right handed) never flaunted her ring-less RIGHT hand even once.

She was also wearing her watch on ler left wrist, which is another indication of her right-handed-ness.

The ad also shows a young woman doctor recommending the patch, who is also apparently unmarried.

Now even if you ignore the moral problems with this ad, the patch, because it offers NO protection at all against AIDS, should NOT be MARKETED towards UNMARRIED young women, especially those who are advertising they are 'available'.

The commercial ended with the actress encouraging young women of America to:

"Talk to your health care professional so you can be smart about your body, and smart about your birth control."

This story is an F.R. exclusive. The EDITORIAL is my own.

1 posted on 05/29/2005 9:59:59 AM EDT by Future Useless Eater

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412704/posts

[ashmanonar]

1. wow.

this moral crap is really starting to bug me. your morals (speaking generally, not specifically to you :D) are not my morals.

[bvar22]

3. Freepers and republicans...

...are just jealous because everyone else is getting laid.

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Hey, I am not a Freeper!

[TheDebbieDee]

9. They get laid, plenty. They're just too ashamed to admit it!

In fact, I'd bet that that's why they're always thinking of ways to stop other people from having sex - because they've just gotten done doing "the nasty"!

I'll bet freepers cry themselves into a guilt-filled sleep after every orgasm!

;>)

[Seabiscuit]

17. The problem isn't that repukes aren't getting laid - it's who it's with:

sisters, neices, mothers, daughters, aunts, mothers-in-law, streetwalkers, etc.

So they think all sex is dirty and want to prevent everyone else from enjoying it.

[FizzFuzz]

21. Mules n/t

[AntiCoup2K4]

24. Don't forget the sheep!

Real and otherwise....

[Seabiscuit]

39. True - they're always screwin' their own sheeple.

[wakeme2008]

35. One problem I do not know if doing it with a donkey is

the same as getting laid. :evilgrin:

[name not needed]

45. Hey, I'd be cranky too

if I was a 46 year old virgin and still lived with my mom.

[Left Is Write]

2. Aside from the antiquated notions about UNMARRIED women, this person

might be way offbase about this woman's handedness (not that her handedness is in anyway relavent).

When I wear a watch, which isn't often, I wear it on my left wrist. And I am very much left-handed.

[kick-ass-bob]

44. I wear a watch on my left arm -- exclusively.

And I am left handed.

[xmas74]

4. Some married people do not wear rings

or did that idiot forget that? Also, hormonal birth control isn't just used for birth control. It can be used for other reasons.
Another thought is that this woman might be engaged and is trying to find the right form of birth control for her marriage. Maybe she and her spouse do not want children immediately. Men don't realize that birth control doesn't kick in the moment you take that first pill. It has to build up in your system for it to work. If you took one pill and didn't use a back-up that night you have a pretty decent chance of still getting pregnant. An intellegent woman,even if she decided to wait to have sex until her wedding night, would explore her options for birth control before her wedding. She would want to know that she had found something that worked for her.
Of course, freepers can only think about promiscuity.

[Roland99]

5. She was wearing *gasp* a watch??!

"Burn her!"

[Buddyblazon]

6. These people are sexually pissed off busy bodies....

that don't get laid.

And they are that way...because the wouldn't know a gratifying sex life if it walked up, pulled their hair, and talked dirty to them.

[VelmaD]

7. I must have missed the memo...

the explained which finger to wear a ring on to show I was unmarried and "on the market". No wonder I'm still single. *smacks self on forehead*

[ghostsofgiants]

10. I was thinking about something...

Could one of the reasons that the right-wingers decide to write off birth control and whatnot as evil and promoting promiscuity and all that bullshit be because keeping birth rates high ultimately means that there will be more people and as a result more poverty (overpopulation being a cause of poerty and all)? Seems it helps reinforce the class structure to me. Maybe they just disguise this as moral outrage and all that shit.

I know there are plenty of people who genuinely think it's immoral, but my idea seems plausible at least, I think.

I dunno, just a thought.

[VelmaD]

11. That's part of the reason I'm sure...

but also what they're REALLY worried about is declining birth rates among WHITE women. They honestly don't much care if black or Latina women have abortions. But whit women just aren't doing their part to make sure we stay the majority. *sigh*

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Another good point

[supernova]

13. This is the real reason

Conservatives are really afraid of losing power in a pluralistic age.

[Fuzz]

14. The thing that makes it SO funny is that he calls it an FR Exclusive!

[tanyev]

15. This person has spent WAY too much time thinking about

a commercial. He?/she? needs to get a life.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. "He?/she? needs to get a life."

And he/she especially needs to get laid.

[progressoid]

49. He/She?

Are you implying transsexuals at FR?

[Pool Hall Ace]

18. How does the poster know that the actress' right hand is ringless

if it is never shown? And what is the significance, anyway?

I also don't understand why the poster brought up the "apparently unmarried" state of the actress portraying the doctor. Is is immoral for an unmarried woman to practice medicine?

This is so silly, I'm wondering if this wasn't posted by a DU infiltrater.

[Fuzz]

19. DU infiltrater? Not a chance.

Look at this person's profile page:

http://www.freerepublic.com/~futureuselesseater/

Been a freeper since 2000 too.

[Pool Hall Ace]

20. Oh dear.

And I see the person has a Terri Schiavo fetish.

So far, most of the other posters do not agree with the doofus.

[DawgHouse]

22. Uh oh

I didn't know that wearing a ring on your middle finger indicates that you are "on the market". You learn something every day!

[Kat45]

23. He's concerned about the patch being unmarried?

Does he want it to marry a condom, thus taking two birth control devices off the market? :shrug:

"The ad also shows a young woman doctor recommending the patch, who is also apparently unmarried."

:rofl:

[Elidor]

25. "Future Useless Eater???"

Current Useless Eater of Shit.

[Maestro]

26. Hey Freeper poster!

And BTW, this woman was not wearing a wedding ring either. My gawd!!!!!!!!!!

[Arkana]

27. What is it with these people and interfering in others' sex lives?

Hey Freepers! SEX!

Yep! I said it! SEX! SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX!

Are your sensibilities offended yet?

[Mark H]

28. "This story is an F.R. exclusive. The EDITORIAL is my own."

Exclusive huh?

[Mugweed]

29. I'm left handed

and wear my watch on my left wrist. Should I not? I didn't get the updated handbook.

I understand the anger at stupid advertisements, though.

[DistressedAmerican]

30. Jeff Gannon Is Promoting Promescuity Among Young Males At The White House!

[NMMNG]

31. Freepers!

I swear, they dissect every show, advertisement and movie to find the "hidden messages". Spongebob is gay, Scar (from "The Lion King")is a Nazi, Tinky Winky is gay, Ortho Evra wants teenagers to be sluts.

Why then are they not attacking Viagra, Cialis and the like? "Viagra wants men to be manwhores!!!" "Cialis is promoting male promiscuity". Apparently drugs used solely to allow sex to happen don't count...


The moral police need to get real jobs...they are really getting paranoid.

[warrens]

32. God bless em

The little pinheads

[Vektor]

33. Good lord, obsess much?

These Freeptards really need to get a life.

[NMMNG]

34. But if they couldn't obsess about sex..

how would they occupy their time?

They might actually reproduce more :scared:

[Vektor]

42. This is a good point.

That is a truly frightening concept.

[MrScorpio]

36. Premarital sex is dirty...

If its done right

[Deja Q]

37. Messy too.

Freepers make it sound like, when you're married, it's good clean fun. Just unspoken because talkin' about it is taboo. :eyes:

[dorktv]

43. Is it? Any tips then for my upcoming weekend of romance?

:evilgrin:

[MrScorpio]

46. If it feels good, do it

If it makes you feel dirty, then you must be doing something right

[Fleshdancer]

38. and if she had a ring, they would be upset that she was on birthcontrol

It really pisses me off that so many assholes think my sexuality (along with every other woman) is somehow their goddamn business. My theory is that the more fucked up someone's life is, the more they are willing to ignore their own problems and judge the lives of others. It's pathetic.

On a side note concerning the bc patch - after using it for a year with no problems, I suddenly started experiencing intense skin reactions to it. Weird, huh? Skin "irritation" is a listed side effect but I experienced more than just an irritation. FYI for anyone who is on it or is thinking about getting it.

[Orangepeel]

40. Most of the responses look reasonable

what does it say about this particular freeper that even other freepers think he/she is ridiculous?

[El Fuego]

41. The responses are surprisingly level-headed, for freepers.

Could it be that even they have an "idiot threshold?"

[Misunderestimator]

47. Advertising ourselves as available.... um... sure

:eyes:

[donheld]

48. I'd have missed the rings or lack of

if i'd seen the commercial 1000 times. These people need lives.