The main takeaway I have gotten from Aids Inc, is that approach to subjects can make a huge difference to how things are handled. Dodging the issues and trying to make things trendy will never work.
Epstein makes a statement that “The sexy billboards… to persuade young people to avoid sex in the same way a sneaker ad tries to seduce them into buying new sneakers, because the players in the ads look cool” and to me, I just do not know how you could take a subject such as that and try to dissuade them without giving them any reasons why they should not do it. It just talks about how you should not do it, but if you do not explain why you should not do something, especially to teens, they will just think you are trying to stop them from having a good time, so they will say “screw it, I am going to do it anyways.” Billboards are not the way to handle this sort of problem. What you need to do as a public is encourage HIV and AIDS patients to share there stories and why you should practice safe sex or abstain from sexual intercourse at all.
A quote that really interested me was “Any young person could become a Y-Center member, but in order to fully participate in its activities, he had to complete a program of seminars about HIV, family planning, and other subjects… The seminars emphasized the biological aspects of the disease and its prevention, but not the experience of living with the disease.” To me, that is a huge problem. If kids are just taught that getting infected with HIV and AIDS is just going to cause this and this but other than that I will be okay, and it probably won’t happen to me. But when you have a person there, in the flesh, you can get the kids to understand the true struggle that the disease brings, and they will understand relationships will be different, and how they are treated will also change, and these kids never think about that because they are just taught about the biology and they never have to think about the social and personal impacts the disease brings.
I think your quotes are really supportive of your point and I like you lead in and paraphrasing for them, well done.
As always, interesting thoughts, Roger. However, take a second look at the prompt: “Is Anne Hallward promoting what Epstein calls “social cohesion” with Safe Space Radio? Why or Why not?”