Comments on: What colour is my rage? I would say red. http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2006/08/29/what-colour-is-my-rage-i-would-say-red/ A blog by an opinionated mother of two, which might lie idle for a while sometimes. The blog, that is. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:56:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: tigtog http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2006/08/29/what-colour-is-my-rage-i-would-say-red/comment-page-1/#comment-1147 tigtog Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:06:01 +0000 http://castironbalcony.media2.org/?p=242#comment-1147 The actual discovery of the HPV-cancer link is fairly recent - late 90s, IIRC. The actual discovery of the HPV-cancer link is fairly recent – late 90s, IIRC.

]]> By: Helen http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2006/08/29/what-colour-is-my-rage-i-would-say-red/comment-page-1/#comment-1124 Helen Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:27:02 +0000 http://castironbalcony.media2.org/?p=242#comment-1124 Me too, Kate, I read everything I could get my hands on. Interestingly (well maybe, to someone who wasn't a teenager in the 70s) Cleo magazine was a good source of fairly reliable information. I'm sure they mentioned STDs along the way but there just wasn't the level of knowledge about it that there is today - and I don't think HPV was recognised as the insidious danger it is. Maybe it wasn't as prevalent then? I don't know. Because it took a fair bit of front to go to the local GP and ask for the Pill, there was a fair amount of condom use. As it turns out that wouldn't have been a bad thing, but then there was zero awareness of the condom as a protection against anything other than pregnancy. At least in my peer group! Me too, Kate, I read everything I could get my hands on. Interestingly (well maybe, to someone who wasn’t a teenager in the 70s) Cleo magazine was a good source of fairly reliable information. I’m sure they mentioned STDs along the way but there just wasn’t the level of knowledge about it that there is today – and I don’t think HPV was recognised as the insidious danger it is. Maybe it wasn’t as prevalent then? I don’t know.

Because it took a fair bit of front to go to the local GP and ask for the Pill, there was a fair amount of condom use. As it turns out that wouldn’t have been a bad thing, but then there was zero awareness of the condom as a protection against anything other than pregnancy. At least in my peer group!

]]> By: kate http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2006/08/29/what-colour-is-my-rage-i-would-say-red/comment-page-1/#comment-1123 kate Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:30:40 +0000 http://castironbalcony.media2.org/?p=242#comment-1123 I've found the 'but it'll make them have sex argument' rather wierd in light of the rubella shot, which was always distributed to teenage girls precisely because it's so dangerous to catch rubella while pregnant. The loonies do have a way of deliberately missing the point - that we'd like them to have the shots young so that it's well and truly before they have sex. They also mistakenly have the idea that teenagers think far enough ahead for something like cervical cancer to even cross the radar. I didn't know that a virus was linked to cervical cancer, not until I was at least 25, and I didn't know about pap smears when I was a teenager either. Incidentally, I learned about proper breast examination when I was wagging school and watching day time telly. I’ve found the ‘but it’ll make them have sex argument’ rather wierd in light of the rubella shot, which was always distributed to teenage girls precisely because it’s so dangerous to catch rubella while pregnant. The loonies do have a way of deliberately missing the point – that we’d like them to have the shots young so that it’s well and truly before they have sex.

They also mistakenly have the idea that teenagers think far enough ahead for something like cervical cancer to even cross the radar. I didn’t know that a virus was linked to cervical cancer, not until I was at least 25, and I didn’t know about pap smears when I was a teenager either. Incidentally, I learned about proper breast examination when I was wagging school and watching day time telly.

]]> By: tigtog http://castironbalcony.media2.org/2006/08/29/what-colour-is-my-rage-i-would-say-red/comment-page-1/#comment-1119 tigtog Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:24:16 +0000 http://castironbalcony.media2.org/?p=242#comment-1119 Luckily, the bureaucrats aren't so sanguine as Ms David. It looks like Gardasil will be reviewed for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme by the end of this year, with adoption by the PBS within a year and perhaps school vaccination programmes bundled with the existing rubella vaccination programme by 2008. Yay. Luckily, the bureaucrats aren’t so sanguine as Ms David. It looks like Gardasil will be reviewed for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme by the end of this year, with adoption by the PBS within a year and perhaps school vaccination programmes bundled with the existing rubella vaccination programme by 2008.

Yay.

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