After I watched the South Park parody of purity rings and the Jonas Brothers, I felt a little dirty. Had I really laughed that hard at those terrible images? How shocking. I tried to tell a friend about it, but couldn’t give my full endorsement. The over-sexualized caricatures used by Matt and Trey to make their points about the absurdity of promoting abstinence-only programs through boy-band popularity went too far. After all, these are, on some level, still elementary-school characters. Then I saw this on reddit.com:
Wow! The Jonas Brothers really do spray white foam all over pre-adolescent girls in the audience! I though it was just an exaggerated symbol of the way bands like the Jonas Brothers sell sexuality to kids while calling it chastity. Too absurd to be real, right? Teen-age boys spraying a white, foamy substance into the faces of their screaming, frantic, enraptured fans? To promote abstinence? How could a such a crazy and crude South Park gimmick actually be accurate? And yet it is. Pretty fucking brilliant.
That was a great episode
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[...] Here’s Ugly Sister at the Location of Contestation blog: Wow! The Jonas Brothers really do spray white foam all over pre-adolescent girls in the audience! I though it was just an exaggerated (over-exaggerated, even) symbol of the way bands like the Jonas Brothers sell sexuality to kids while calling it chastity. Too absurd to be real, right? Teen-age boys spraying a white, foamy substance into the faces of their screaming, frantic, enraptured fans? To promote abstinence? How could a such a crazy and crude South Park gimmick actually be accurate? And yet it is. Pretty fucking brilliant. Posted by Lisa Pampuch Filed in Caught My Eye Tags: chastity rings, Hypocrisy, Jonas Brothers, South Park, Ugly Sister [...]