I'll just put this right here... [FLASH VID]

zyk0s · 2011-02-17T03:31:55+00:00

Nice music, effective visual style. It has a nice convincing message, but is it really what we need?

It talks about poverty, but poverty where? The scenario depicted is certainly not happening in the US, since you can't get married at 14. This stuff happens, of course, in very poor places in the world, but why not name them then? It talks about giving the girl access to health and education... as if it was a matter of legislation! Where these things happen, most of the time there are no hospitals, and a very weak education infrastructure. At this point, you're not only talking about girls, you're talking about whole societies that need this help. Boys will need this healthcare and this education to get to jobs that will a) support these girls and b) actually improve said health and education system. This is a tremendous challenge, attempted by thousands upon thousands of NGO's and other not-for-profits, and nobody has found a real solution. Most of it is patching up here and there, building a school here, opening a hospital there, but these are far between geographically, and the situation is still crap.

So the only thing that makes this video stand out is a nice, modern presentation and the use of the idea of an innocent 12-year old to persuade people to donate.

Now, there's the problem of the idea, not quite clearly shown, that this is about giving exclusively to girls. There's a few problems with that. First, it's fundamentally sexist (any sort of advantage given to a person solely based on their gender, that's the definition). Second, it's realistically impossible. How, logistically, does anyone think it is possible to give money only to girls? Directly, it is, I think, impossible. Indirectly, it could be conceived to create girl-only hospitals and girl only schools. The first has never been tried, for obvious reasons. The second would just make the problems there worse. How would a traditional society react in a region where the only school is only for girls? Women would start having better jobs than men, which would introduce even more gender tension and resentment, which, surprise surprise, leads to more violence. Suppose girls are schooled and are able to move to urban centers to further study and find good jobs, what happens then? Gender demographics imbalances, and since this can't be implemented everywhere at once, the nearest village will have plenty of girls to marry, which now become desirable. Step 3 human trafficking, step 4 ???? step 5 profit! We've seen it happen in Asia, and everyone was taken by surprise.

So ultimately, this video is a visually pleasing attempt at selling an impossible idea using a variant of the missing pretty girl syndrome.

tl;dr: You can't fix the world with sugar, spice and everything nice.

Bobsutan · 2011-02-17T04:59:17+00:00

I just fired off the following email to [email protected]:

Could you please clarify why your organization chose to focus on assisting young girls instead of children in general? To be completely blunt about it It seems rather sexist it ignore the plight young boys around the globe who could also benefit from your organization's efforts.

Thank you,

Bob

I'll update later if/when they respond.

fubuvsfitch · 2011-02-17T02:56:57+00:00

Not really sure why I posted it here... Found it in /r/TwoXChromosomes and thought it a bit... well, I figured /r/MensRights would like to see it.

mean0dean0 · 2011-02-17T04:07:01+00:00

Wait... 50 million girls out of 3 billion? How much of a percentage is that? I mean, 50 million sounds like a lot, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not so bad. A hell of a lot more people are gonna die if the peak oil proclaimers turn out to be true, mainly because most of the developing world needs oil for the basic necessities of life. So yeah--good message, education and all that. But let's focus on the big picture first--not just the women first. Otherwise, we'll have a really well-educated staff of female executives presiding over a landscape of corpses. Like, potentially billions of corpses...

Umbra29 · 2011-02-17T14:21:49+00:00

What. The. Fuck.

This has the stench of propaganda

Title	I'll just put this right here... [FLASH VID]
Author	fubuvsfitch
Upvotes	7
Comments	22
Date	February 17, 2011 2:55 AM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/fmx6b/ill_just_put_this_right_here_flash_vid/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/ill-just-put-this-right-here-flash-vid.1043059 https://theredarchive.com/post/1043059

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