French AIDS Posters & New PSA's- Page 2

[ABSteel]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 6:08pm

The guy has a really hot ass.

[StarStruckGB]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 6:14pm

They do look like some kind of artwork, I agree.

(p.s. my staements in my last post were mostly joking around about the pest/bug stuff.)
I get it, it's dangerous, but I just don't look at those and say "hey, AIDS sucks."
But it really does grab you.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 6:22pm

"but I just don't look at those and say "hey, AIDS sucks."

er, you shouldn't have to see any picture to be able to say that.....I am going to assume you are young and didn't live through the very early years of AIDS. And I really don't mean that in any disrespectful way, but rather that all of us who did live through those years know it sucks....we don't need pictures.
Then again, I do believe these ads are meant for younger people....and knowing the French as I do, this is perfect for them

[mateo]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 6:37pm

Elphaba its scary

I was born in the middle of the aids scare- and really the first generation taught about it in School.

I have many friends who are a good 10 years younger than I- and its a little frigtening how lightly they think of AIDS.


As if it doesn't exist.

[HatBoy]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 6:39pm

Beastiality at its best.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 6:56pm

I think they are brilliant. The message that sex with a tarantula can be kinky is very clear to me.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:24pm

I know what you mean, mateo......and apparently in this group too, judging from some of the comments

[mateo]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:27pm

yes, i was just gonna say.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:29pm

You guys are being silly. No one is saying AIDS is anthing less that a devestating disease. But those ads are ridiculous. It has nothing to do with the severity of the message, but the fact that message is delivered so poorly.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:34pm

So what is it, Elphaba? Are those of us who went through the early days of the epidemic somewhat sorry that the young people of today haven't had to go through the deaths and the memorial services? Just a little? Because, when all else fails, many among our cohort cluck our tongues and lament that young people don't take the epidemic as seriously as we did. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. "These kids today, they just don't know..."

And why should they know? The epidemic is different now. We can't keep claiming some sort of moral high ground based upon whenever it was we just so happened to be born, through no choice at all of our own. For us, it was like an atom bomb went off in the middle of our world. For them, it's an annoying buzz that has always been in the background and always will be.

It's very hard to maintain a crisis mentality indefinitely. People and the world around them adjust. We can't hold it against them that the times and the culture are different. And finally, I think we just have to give up the "we were there and you'll never know what it was like if you weren't," because it's true. They won't. And there's nothing they or we can do about it.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:35pm

That's my point... the ads for me do not bring home the point. They tell me NOTHING. Now maybe if I was French or understood their culture, it would be different.

The fine line of ads is that some people get them, some don't. And you try to create an image that will affect most people you're targetting. This image totally missed with me.

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:35pm

Well, the pictures definitely made me scared.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:39pm

Fear is a horrible long-term prevention intervention strategy.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:41pm

Namo, for all your hyperbole, you make very strong arguments. Hats off.

[justagirl2]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:48pm

Elphaba, I'm young and have never been directly affected by AIDS. However, I've received my education on the subject, and I know how dangerous and truly tragic a disease it is. The fact that these ads don't do it for me doesn't mean I don't think AIDS sucks, it just means that the advertising doesn't drive the point home for me. No one is trivializing AIDS because we weren't around for the beginning of the crisis...we're focusing on the ad itself.

Namo, well said.

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:50pm

AIDS sucks

*Looks at the first picture*

Giggle.

[justagirl2]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 8:51pm

Ahhh! I didn't even think of that. Nice work, Raviolisun.

[ABSteel]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:07pm

HAHA!

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:18pm

"Never date a Scorpio. "

Ha HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! That is the TRUTH, Calvin!! LMAO!!

The ads are provocative and we ARE talking about them. But I agree that I'm not sure I personally like them. Especially since the chances of passing HIV via cunnilingus are slim to none*. That spider and lady are gonna be fine. Gives new meaning to KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN though.

*Same is pretty much true with fellatio. There should, however, be concern of passing HepB, herpes and other stuff.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:19pm

I wonder if it will sting when he pees after.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:22pm

If you have seen Ms. Midler in Outrageous Fortune, it gives new meaning to "the bugf***er" as well.



And bug chaser. Aha! That's who those posters are aimed at!

Updated On: 4/5/07 at 09:22 PM

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:31pm

Man, that must have been a fun photo shoot.

[hannahshule]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:32pm

Is it bad that the first thing I thought when I saw those pictures was "That guy is HAWT!"

[ABSteel]

Posted: 4/5/07 at 9:34pm

You and me both, gurl.

That ass is the definition of scrumptious.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:04am

Those are seriously "whack"...

The American in me thinks: Are we gonna hav'ta go over there and save their butts in the war on AIDS, too...?

The gay man in me thinks that that guys ass could bring a tear to a glass eye...