[Now that's a lotta latex!] Giant condom overlooks Buenos Aires on AIDS Day
Staff and agencies04 December, 2005
Ely Times
Thu Dec 1, 11:02 PM ET
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Sightseers in Buenos Aires got a shock on Thursday when the city‘s most famous landmark, the obelisk, was covered with a giant pink condom on World AIDS Day.
City officials used cranes to unfurl shiny pink cloth over the monolith in a campaign promoting condom use to prevent infection with the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
"It seemed like we could have the biggest impact by putting a condom on the most important symbol of the city," said Sandra Castillo, an organizer of the campaign.
Why is an obelisk the most important symbol of the City?? And why sexualize the monument? I have a very strange feeling about this whole thing - but can't even yet identify why this story is somehow symbolic of so many things that are psychotic about the current state of the World.
The obelisk, which is identical to the Washington Monument but smaller at 220 feet (67 metres) tall, is a popular tourist site.
[hm. But what does it *do* ? And why do people want to visit it? Does it transmit happy thoughts or something??]
Its colorful tip could be spotted from office buildings several blocks away.
Vilma Torres, an Ecuadorean tourist taking snapshots of the structure, said the sight was an unexpected surprise.
AIDS killed 66,000 Latin Americans in the past year, according to a U.N. report. In Argentina, the number of reported AIDS cases has fallen 45 percent since 1996, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, and the leading cause of infection was unprotected sex.
Esteban Jubitta, 18, considered the obelisk stunt in bad taste.
"Using this moment to make a sort of joke, it‘s showing a bit of lack of respect," he said.
Yes, Esteban - I was thinking that the cost must have been enormous. And while prevention strategies are very important, the money could have been better used.
4 comments:
"I have a very strange feeling about this whole thing - but can't even yet identify why this story is somehow symbolic of so many things that are psychotic about the current state of the World."
bingo as usual Annie -- it's one of those images carefully planned and designed to induce mass psychological, but underneath it's malevolent
. . . a bit too detailed to tackle here, i'll ask little dynamo to uplink and comment, he's such a Nice Guy i'm shore he won't Mind
oops, shoulda been "mass psychological COMFORT" makes a bit more sense thattaway
OH! that reminds me! The *PINK* ... protect me pink! That color was like a slap of rubber on the hindquarters.
Yes ... that's it masked and anonymous man. The word malevolent fits like a glove, er, condom , er. you know what i mean. :o)
Annie will look forward to the Dynamo's perspective. Thanks for putting in a radar call to him. I understand he has been verily swamped with vested Umgabwe mining interests. And collecting quarters. :o)
Annie
This just in! Dynamo does it again.
Gives "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" a whole new twist!
http://littledynamo.blogspot.com/2005/12/silence-is-health.html
El Brujo, Triple A, and other vessels of malevolence. Drugs, weapons, the occult. Looks like that springy pink Trojan may help uncover a whole lot more than it covered! This is nasty business.
And here's a little synchro to fit in nicely. I was typing medical files yesterday. The radiologist gives a "Triple A" as the patient's history. I haven't heard that phrase in a very long time. It's really AAA and I don't mean auto coverage. It stands for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. AAA is a condition that causes the main aortic branch coursing from the heart through the gut to thin, balloon, and if unchecked - it can leak blood into surrounding tissue and eventually bursts. It often causes no symptoms until it's at a critical stage.
I think the World is at a very critical stage.
Thanks, Dynamo, for digging up the facts! And thank you, again, anonymous for the assist.
http://littledynamo.blogspot.com/2005/12/silence-is-health.html
Annie
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