<p>It's official: at >200,000 hits in less than five days, the "I Have Sex", student produced video filmed in support of Planned Parenthood and against Tea Party efforts to cut government funding for sex education, has gone viral. Here, combining everything we've come to expect and love about Wesleyan - the picturesque campus, the edgy political message, the expert use of media and above all, those lovely, lovely faces in all their diversity, is: YouTube</a> - "I Have Sex" ? students speak out against ideological attack on Planned Parenthood</p>
<p>I absolutely loved it. A friend who also applied RD showed it to me. I knew someone in it too, which is kinda cool.</p>
<p>Just another reason why we love Wes…</p>
<p>Oberlin Also Has Sex: [YouTube</a> - Oberlin Has Sex!](<a href=“Oberlin Has Sex! - YouTube”>Oberlin Has Sex! - YouTube)
[thanks, to Wesleying for posting.]</p>
<p>Interesting video but I fail to see the relevance of their gratuitous reference to corporate welfare and entitlements. Are they intimating that corporations prevent them from having sex. I guess when your a sheltered and privileged college student your allowed to make unsupported assertions that have no basis in reality.</p>
<p>^ Try and watch it again. They’re comparing the cost of Planned Parenthood to other expenditures, such as tax breaks for oil companies…</p>
<p>^^ and learn how to spell “you’re” correctly before you try to act like some sort of intellectual</p>
<p>If you think tax breaks for oil companies jeopardizes funding for Planned Parenthood you’re as clueless as these students in the video. To the other poster, I congratulate you on your terrific spelling skills. Hopefully, that is not your only skill.</p>
<p>I think the idea of those is more like “look how much we spend on xyz that many believe is ethically questionable” and “look at how much less we have to spend on Planned Parenthood considering all the good it does us,” not so much that funding one thing takes away from another per se.</p>
<p>These students’ direct experiences with Planned Parenthood are probably only slightly greater than their knowledge of the oil industry.</p>
<p>Why must you bash Wes students? Many of them have probably accomplished more in life than you have.</p>
<p>He/she apparently has a child attending Claremont McKenna and spends most of his/her time on CC exalting CMC and talking down on other colleges and their supporters…
- Se parent57’s posts for proof…</p>
<p>Wrong, I have posted only on the Claremont colleges threads. This might be my first post on another college-dedicated thread. I know some of you are a bit sensitive, but I couldn’t resist commenting after watching the video. The inclusion of the reference to the big bad corporations in the video struck me as ludicrous. It would be interesting if any of these students in the video could even explain one corporate tax break. It is easy for them to bash corporations while enjoying all of their products. Also, it would be interesting to see if any of them have ever stepped inside a Planned Parenthood office and have more than a cursory familiarity with their activities.</p>
<p>I think Parent57 is absolutely right!</p>
<p>We should all bow to our conservative corporate overlords, and accept with humble gratitude the crumbs they drop to us from the table of their feast. </p>
<p>They, our wealthy betters, know best. We are merely peasants, whose voices matter not compared to those whose net worths are in the top .1% nationally. The rich are just BETTER than the poor, everyone knows that. All this liberal “equality” stuff is nonsense. </p>
<p>And all that stuff in the Bible about Christ commanding his wealthy followers to give ALL THEY HAVE to the poor, well certainly He didn’t really MEAN such a thing. No, Jesus REALLY meant that the poor should give all THEY have to the already rich and selfish, so those few individuals can become even more fat and self-centered while everyone else suffers. The poor should pay alms to the rich. Because that’s what’s right! Survival of the Fittest is what should govern human society, not The Golden Rule. </p>
<p>The Divine Right of kings makes clear that we aristocratic conservatives are correct … that only a few humans deserve to enjoy life while the rest of us poor slobs get to suffer and die without health care, jobs, homes, family planning, etc. Never mind the “General Welfare” clause in the preamble to the Tea Party’s favorite document, the U.S. Constitution. </p>
<p>All hail Jacob Marley and pre-conversion Ebenezar Scrooge, models for modern American conservatives! Let the poor just be quick about it and die, and decrease the surplus population.</p>
<p>Serves them right, lowly peasants …</p>
<p>How do I know this is all true? Rush says so, and that’s good enough for me.</p>
<p>“And all that stuff in the Bible about Christ commanding his wealthy followers to give ALL THEY HAVE to the poor, well certainly He didn’t really MEAN such a thing.”</p>
<p>Chrisrb, I am assuming you are a high school student, but I may be wrong. So do me a favor, after you graduate from an elite college and are gainfully employed, let me know if you are giving all that you have to the poor. Until then, it is all talk.</p>
<p>As a follow-up, today’s <em>Argus</em> reports that the students involved in producing the video were presented with Planned Parenthood’s annual Walk the Talk Award. They shared honors with the producers of “Friday Night Lights”, a network television show, and the producers of MTV:</p>
<p>[?Sex</a>? Goes Viral: Wesleyan Activism Celebrated ? The Wesleyan Argus](<a href=“http://wesleyanargus.com/2011/04/12/‘sex’-goes-viral-wesleyan-activism-celebrated/]?Sex”>The Wesleyan Argus | ‘Sex’ Goes Viral: Wesleyan Activism Celebrated)</p>
<p>OMG I love Wes even more every day! ;)</p>
<p>I wasn’t aware 300,000+ views in a month was considered viral. I see no relevance in college students saying they have sex. The laughing and joking around is absolutely pathetic. I wasn’t aware abortion was such a funny matter. I doubt these students in the video even know who Margaret Sanger is and her views about racial purification. $75 million given to Planned Parenthood? I say to hell with that. I’m not paying a single PENNY for rubbers, STD’s, or abortions for people who have no morals, ethics, awareness, responsibility. There’s an obvious difference between college kids who are responsible, the kids in this video are obviously not responsible. </p>
<p>I’m not here to start anything, I’m merely saying this video makes no sense and the kids in this video should do more research before they support such a horrible corporation.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I wasn’t aware that Congress funded abortion services at Planned Parenthood.</p>
<p>I also wasn’t aware that abortion was referenced in the video…let alone treated as a funny matter.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>First of all, your use of the word “kids” – for both “responsible” and “not responsible” people – is noted and affirms one of the messages in the video: these are adults we’re talking about.</p>
<p>Most importantly, in what ways are the people in this video not responsible? Because they have sex? If you watched past 0:30, you’d know that not all of them do. Because they plan to have sex? Because they have friends who have sex? Because some of them have periods? Or use birth control – including one apparently married couple? Is it because these adults have sex but don’t want to have babies each time they have sex?</p>
<p>There’s a reality out there that lawmakers seem to deny…and that’s that the things mentioned in this video occur, in a ubiquitous manner across the country among adults (young and old) who are acting responsibly. The younger these adults are the more important it is for us to ensure they have access to the services that Planned Parenthood delivers so that they have the opportunity to act responsibly. If Planned Parenthood isn’t going to deliver these services, what organization out there will do so? If you think these services shouldn’t come from an organization that also provides abortion services and wasn’t founded by Margaret Sanger, that’s fine. I’m just interested in finding out where those services will come from if Congress shaves off that $75 million.</p>
<p>In terms of the annual federal budget, the federally-funded services that would be cut off take up 12 minutes out of the year. The services that the federal government funds are beneficial.</p>
<p>I submit that the people who are irresponsible are the ones who plan to cut them off without funding the delivery of the same services through other means. A responsible adult would insist that these services continue…even if – perhaps ESPECIALLY if – the people who need them are not being responsible in some way.</p>
<p>The point of the video is that the need for the services doesn’t get cut off when the funding gets cut off. You may not like that there’s a need for services related to human reproduction and biological functions but that need exists regardless of your personal moral framework. So what, then, is the responsible solution? Taking your tax dollar ball and going home because the chief organization that delivers them had a founder you dislike and they also deliver other services you don’t approve of (as do many hospitals that receive federal tax dollars with emergency rooms and other medical services for which you are a constituent consumer and that you wouldn’t want to have shut down)?</p>
<p>the question of viremia is a fair one. I’m assuming it has more to do with the rate of increase rather than the absolute number, and by any measure, 200,000 hits in five days is kind of impressive.</p>
<p>By way of comparison, there is last year’s Midd Kid video which has stalled out just short of a million hits, but, that’s over the space of fourteen months: [YouTube</a> - MIDD KID (Official Music Video)](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZzCHcMKyDc&annotation_id=annotation_272180&feature=iv]YouTube”>MIDD KID (Official Music Video) - YouTube)</p>