Bent Over Billboards

CBC Watch:

With copy slogans like "He came inside me," "I came inside him" and "He likes it Raw," Health Canada and a handful of AIDS groups are running a new national HIV ad campaign targeting gay men under the catch phrase "Think Again"(a phrase already used by Health Canada for a campaign to target smokers).

CBC Watch has a followup on the reaction of the People's Network to Jim Pattison's refusal to run the images on Pattison Group billboards. Short version: "bad conservative billionaire!".

I like Kathy Shaidle's take.

A couple of years ago, a friend who works with Sask Health mentioned that they were worried that a new needle exchange program was going to anger diabetics, who had to pay for their own. I told her, "And rightfully so."

"But," she protested, "AIDS is a public health issue."

"and diabetes isn't?"

"A lot of people don't know that you can catch HIV through intravenous drug usage. They don't know...."

"What.. ? Did they miss the day in Grade 6 where we learned shooting drugs into your veins with a needle is bad for you???