Comments on: From Confusion to Bummed Out http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2008/01/14/from-confusion-to-bummed-out/ Rants and musings, without care for substance. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:57:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: yellojkt http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2008/01/14/from-confusion-to-bummed-out/#comment-10154 yellojkt Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:10:57 +0000 http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2008/01/14/from-confusion-to-bummed-out/#comment-10154 It's the happy message version of the "Teach your kids 'virgin' isn't a dirty word campaign. It’s the happy message version of the “Teach your kids ‘virgin’ isn’t a dirty word campaign.

]]> By: Alex http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2008/01/14/from-confusion-to-bummed-out/#comment-10152 Alex Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:24:26 +0000 http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2008/01/14/from-confusion-to-bummed-out/#comment-10152 Meg: I've actually heard about this one but the picture is much better. Cham: I suppose that PSA have always been marketing to some extent, but this just feels more like... marketing. Statistics are fun but can tell whatever story you like. Consider, married people are 100% more likely to get divorced than unmarried people. Hell, make it 200% while we're at it. danielle: I sat at a light for a while and stared, but I suppose over a couple hundred feet my eyes could be mistaken. The amended billboards are probably more effective, seeing how kids like humor and cynicism. Meg: I’ve actually heard about this one but the picture is much better.

Cham: I suppose that PSA have always been marketing to some extent, but this just feels more like… marketing. Statistics are fun but can tell whatever story you like. Consider, married people are 100% more likely to get divorced than unmarried people. Hell, make it 200% while we’re at it.

danielle: I sat at a light for a while and stared, but I suppose over a couple hundred feet my eyes could be mistaken. The amended billboards are probably more effective, seeing how kids like humor and cynicism.

]]> By: danielle http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2008/01/14/from-confusion-to-bummed-out/#comment-10151 danielle Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:31:34 +0000 http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2008/01/14/from-confusion-to-bummed-out/#comment-10151 marriageworksUSA.com is in small print on the billboards. The goal is to get teenagers to aspire to marriage and not get pregnant beforehand. Here's <a href="http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/sub.cfm?issueID=39&sectionID=4&articleID=461" rel="nofollow">a good article</a> There's one of those newer billboards that Cham mentioned on Keswick at 33rd St. in Hampden. I'm surprised it hasn't been <i>amended</i> given the reception <a href="http://sugarfreak.typepad.com/mobtownshank/2007/08/wtf-marriage---.html" rel="nofollow">some </a> <a href="http://sugarfreak.typepad.com/mobtownshank/2007/11/what-kind-of-ma.html" rel="nofollow">other</a> "Marriage Works" billboards received nearby. marriageworksUSA.com is in small print on the billboards.

The goal is to get teenagers to aspire to marriage and not get pregnant beforehand.

Here’s a good article

There’s one of those newer billboards that Cham mentioned on Keswick at 33rd St. in Hampden. I’m surprised it hasn’t been amended given the reception some other “Marriage Works” billboards received nearby.

]]> By: Cham http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2008/01/14/from-confusion-to-bummed-out/#comment-10149 Cham Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:18:07 +0000 http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2008/01/14/from-confusion-to-bummed-out/#comment-10149 The marriage works business comes to us by an organization called Campaign For Our Children,which is Christian-based and fully endorsed and loved by the Baltimore City Government. They claim that married people live longer, do better economically and are happier. I am sure they can find some statistics that support those particular ideas, but I am not sure they are correct. Married people have also proven to be more depressed, especially those with kids. Married people are also more debt-ridden. Putting the "Marriage Works" business aside, I am especially enjoying the new, CFOC warlike billboard message from a really mean-looking black woman, "I don't give it up and I'm not giving in." Sort of like virginity as a weapon. I thought sex was supposed to be mutual and pleasurable, not a bargaining chip. The marriage works business comes to us by an organization called Campaign For Our Children,which is Christian-based and fully endorsed and loved by the Baltimore City Government. They claim that married people live longer, do better economically and are happier. I am sure they can find some statistics that support those particular ideas, but I am not sure they are correct. Married people have also proven to be more depressed, especially those with kids. Married people are also more debt-ridden.

Putting the “Marriage Works” business aside, I am especially enjoying the new, CFOC warlike billboard message from a really mean-looking black woman, “I don’t give it up and I’m not giving in.” Sort of like virginity as a weapon. I thought sex was supposed to be mutual and pleasurable, not a bargaining chip.

]]> By: Meg http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2008/01/14/from-confusion-to-bummed-out/#comment-10148 Meg Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:32:50 +0000 http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2008/01/14/from-confusion-to-bummed-out/#comment-10148 http://sugarfreak.typepad.com/mobtownshank/2007/08/wtf-marriage---.html look what they did in another neighborhood! http://sugarfreak.typepad.com/mobtownshank/2007/08/wtf-marriage—.html

look what they did in another neighborhood!

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