"You think your parents give you a lot of crap?"

[truefobinglove]

Fall Out Boy have joined the Candie's Foundation for a PSA on issues relating to teenage pregnancy. The boys' video isn't up, yet, but a promo thumbnail is. Watch this space for more.

And check out the site: http://candiesfoundation.org.

- thanks to failboats for the link.

Comments

[rosiedoes]

FIFTEEN.

[failboats]

There's a girl whose 13 and is pregnant, in my school.
I laugh at how stupid she is. She puts out for anyone.
*waits for the drama to come about teenage pregnancy*

[triedthistwice]

Maybe she has the mindset that sex = love? She might put out because she wants to be accepted and loved. Just because she's a little confused and uneducated in that respect (She's 13 after all), doesn't make her stupid.

Also, I hate the stigma that's put on teenage mothers. I don't know if this is common knowledge, but I hear that it takes two people to get pregnant. :/ Go figure.

[rosiedoes]

The good thing about this campaign is that it seems pretty balanced.

It's targeting the boys as well.

[triedthistwice]

Yeah, they tried that when I was in high school. You got a whole shit load of boys buying boxes of trojans who didn't know how to properly use them and the just skittered off the University while their pregnant exes got the finger pointed at them.

We need to educate these kids about sex properly. We know they do it, it's our responsibility to tell them how to do it safely and correctly. (Foreplay will not kill you omfg.)

[xxtaste_of_ink]

ugh. i don't ever wanna have a baby. thanks anyway fall out boy.

[triedthistwice]

Yeah, pretty much. I was a nanny for a long time and the best part was giving them back at the end of the day. I love me some babies, don't get me wrong. I just don't want to keep them.

[rosiedoes]

Me either. I'm pro-extinction. Let the human race die out, man.

[triedthistwice]

Yeah, no. Not taking advice from dudes when it comes to anything reproductive. Assholes get off scratch-free when they knock someone up a good 90% of the time and we get left with the stigma of being "sluts".

No. Thank. You.

[rosiedoes]

Go watch the videos that are already up. That's not the angle they're going for AT ALL. It's very much the responsibility of both parties.

[triedthistwice]

I would hope so. (I really want to make a "like shooting fish in a barrel" joke, but can't bring myself to do it D: )

I will have to watch these videos. I (stupidly) assumed it was going to be like 99% of all videos like this. "Girls, don't have sex because when you get pregnant, it is ALL. YOUR. FAULT."

[rosiedoes]

Oh, no, it's definitely not. It's more like, "This is how your life could change if you become a parent. Look fun to you?"

[jedi_iwakura]