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Suburban Commando, this one’s for you!
Oh! Um, hooray?
You let the Downs out….
Me:
NEXT COMMENT, PLEASE!
Next comment, please!
ahh! that came out way wrong! i love alien babies! frak…where’s sigourney??
Wow, this really puts the race for pink slips at the end of Grease in a whole new, terrible light.
Shame on you, Danny Zuko. I don’t even understand why you’d race for that.
What’s it called when your eyes are bleeding ma, cuz I have that now
Me.
“Let’s pretend that you, an 8-year-old little girl with Down syndrome, have your period and blood is coming out of an opening between your legs now.” <>
Whoops, it was supposed to say “shudder” at the end.
Good God. I thought the Who Let The Clowns Out video would be the most horrifying thing I saw this week. I was very wrong.
I am assuming you got to the visual of the used “sanitary pad removed from her panties.”
I loved the Who Let the Clowns Out video. I was just thinking about that a few minutes ago when I was outside
Nope. Just nope.
Finally we can talk about our periods on Vgum, right ladies? Has anyone tried the period tracker IPhone app? It’s kind of awesome.
Why would you need to track it when they told me it comes every four weeks for about three or four days? Pretty straight forward stuff!
because sometimes you just drink so much and so often that you just plumb forget when you last had the dang thing? amirite ladies? huh?
You are right.
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I just assume anything that doesn’t get posted here is unimportant and never happened. That’s why i wrote-in pumpkin head at my state’s most recent caucus.
I saw it a long time ago too but who cares. Stuff like this needs reposting every now and again.
Stuff like this needs to be posted about every four weeks for three or four days.
Best comment of the week? Best comment of the week.
Yes, excellent. Also, hey everyone, been a while.
Yeah, it almost looks like it was filmed in the 60′s.
It was posted on Jezebel about two years ago. I was going to make some sort of joke about how late Videogum is to the game it might as well start worrying it was pregnant, cuz you know…period humor.
See. See that. See Jill. See that Jill. Jill. See. See that.
That’s what happens when you find a stranger in the alps Jill
Yippe Kay Yay, mother father!
Why is this a thing.
I don’t know what y’all are going on about. I feel I’ve really learned something about my body today.
Still horrified, but I agree with you in that they did include the useful Pro-Tip: Put the used pad in the nearest wastebasket.
I’ve always carried around my bloody pads until I got to the FARTHEST wastebasket, which made for slightly awkward social interactions.
Also, @ 2:48 “It’s sticky.” TWSS (and also what she looked like when she said it)
Why did she have to have Downs Syndrome? Was this marketed specifically to disabled children? I’m just so confused about every aspect of this video [except how menstruation works. It's God telling you monthly that you are a sinner and going to hell.]
It’s the blood of all the angels you killed with your impure thoughts.
Are you a woman who is not currently filled up with babies? To hell with you!
This would actually be a very helpful tool for parents of girls with Down Syndrome. It is important to address such issues in a patient, straightforward manner with lots of repetition. My goddaughter has Down Syndrome, and this would really not be a bad guide to teaching her about her period.
Keep in mind that girls with Down Syndrome at the onset of puberty generally still have the intellectual development of toddlers. It’s a whole different discussion for them and must be dealt with delicately, not at all like you would approach the subject with a normal tween.
Yes, exactly.
KIND of a downer (sorry).
womp womp womp
KIND of a downer. (SORRY)
“Does the opening between my legs have a name?”
“Nope!”
I have this on video, as well as one that teaches about sex (“Sex Ed for Trainables” — “trainables” was the appropriate word for people with DS at the time!!!!!! wtf?!!!!) and one that teaches people performing CPR to check for tracheotomy holes, called “Check the Neck.”
My video collection is your boyfriend.
If one were interested in viewing these videos, for purely educational value of course, how would one go about doing such a thing?
Whoa, I also have “Sex Ed for Trainables!” Isn’t it weird how very inappropriate and insulting it is while clearly, for its time, trying to be way sensitive and PC?
So your saying its hilarious
Yes. I will admit that I have subjected several of my friends to it. But I always felt kinda dirty afterward. (TWSS?)
do you live at Everything is Terrible headquarters?
FAKE. It’s viral marketing for Kotex
What is with all the repetition? Jill has down’s syndrome, she’s not deaf.
Oh. My. God. I’m experiencing toxic shock syndrome.
Yeah, Scott, THANKS FOR THE TIP (no thanks!).
Just the tip, tho.
You know, I was really hoping I could see the look on my dad’s face when I give him his birthday present later today, but I guess this video was the last thing I’ll ever see since I had to immediately wash my eyes out with nails.
The title of this post reads like the punch of a Dennis Miller joke from 1996, cuppy.
The titles for this post reads like the punch to a Dennis Miller joke from 1996, cuppy.
Okay, I was trying not to comment, but…as a newly minted, earnest, (sort of) young special ed teacher i feel compelled to point out that this video wasn’t made for you. It was made coming out of essentially the dark ages of special education to teach kids with disabilities about their periods. The repetition and modelling are strategies still used today. Yeah, it’s uncomfortable for us to watch, but think about the intended audience.
Sorry, but I felt like I had to point that out.
All valid points, Arby’s, but would you show this to one of your students? Time has not been kind to this video in the most barfy of ways.
No, of course not! But I would wager that the current videos are not that different. The barfy parts are the most important parts to express since kids who have different learning abilities may not connect the concept of “blood on the pad” with an actual bloody pad. It’s totally gross and uncomfortable for me to say to you, but crucial to their grasping what will happen.
But also, I think if the film stock were less degraded it might be less barfy.
Yes, I would definitely prefer the bloody pad to be much more vivid.
Yeah, I was actually thinking that this video was way more informative than any of the videos that I watched in school, and that a little girl could actually learn something from this. And yet I was still horrified. Maybe I shouldn’t be, but I was.
I completely agree. Like I get it, it’s probably not what most of you wanted to see when you were just eating your lunch and reading an entertainment website. But it was designed to help children with disabilities learn about a subject that may be difficult for them to understand (and to help their families teach them about that subject). rb is right about the repetition/modeling and concrete level of thinking in the film, even if the film is obviously outdated (which, duh).
Also, I’m sure I’m going to get all the downvotes for this, but I feel like some of the comments are in the vein of “ew, periods are gross!” or indicate that the commenter is somehow disturbed that the little girl is disabled? In med school we had to watch a video of variously-abled couples having sex (sometimes with the assistance of an aide) and some of my peers were very disturbed by the idea that people with cerebral palsy, quadriplegia, or severe intellectual disability might have gone through puberty and have active sex lives. Like they had never thought of it before?
My main problem is that no one ever actually explains what a period is! Granted, I never worked with special ed kids, and yes, this was made in the dark ages, but “blood comes out from an opening between my legs”? What? That sounds terrifying!
This is a perfect way for me to start my (suicide) weekend.
EVERY FOUR WEEKS!
I used to own a DVD w/ educational filmstrips like this…
http://www.amazon.com/Educational-Archives-Sex-Drugs/dp/B0000E32XZ
…but left/lost it at a party at Lindsayism’s apartment in 2004. It was a weird party.
….why the fuck did I just watch that?
That little girl “playing” (?) Jill is pretty adorable. And I’d rather see someone’s period blood than a gross actual wound, to be honest. So, this is very surprising and weird, but it’s not horrible violence or porn, or degrading to Down Syndrome kids, and that’s something, right? Minimalstandardsgum.
God damnit Gabe.
Gabe, do you have periods?
“Blood comes out of my body from an opening between my legs. That about sums it up. No need to watch the rest of the video. Do you have any more questions, Downs-syndrome looking daughter?”
“Hi girls!”
“Hi Dad”
“What have you girls been talking about?”
“About periods, daddy”
“That’s my cue to get the fuck out of here.”
Yeah, I noticed no one mentions and that she never asks why the blood comes out. I’m supposing really going into the biological reasons for it would be a lot more difficult to explain to a child with downs. All kids get so many mixed messages about all this stuff, which only contributes to more confusion. Of course you had the guys at school asking you “is it really blue?” because of the amount of times they’d seen commercials using blue dye to demonstrate absorbency…
Here’s another take on the same video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czVUePoFovQ
I think it captures how some of us reacted to Pinkslip.
“You use a sanitary pad.”
“A sanitary pad?”
“Yes, Maraget, a sanitary pad.”
“This is a sanitary pad.”
More like sanitary mattress amirite?!
“My pink slip brings all the boys to the yard…”