Yale Daily News

Emma put in so much great work to this article and I was even blown away by how

perspicacious some of her insights were. But who put together this cover page?

This "Scene's View"?

Both of these atrocious additions to an otherwise phenomenal piece are really

frustrating. It wasn't enough for society to burden women with the more

significant consequences of unsafe sex, and as one commenter in the article

notes, the duty to enforce that safe sex be practiced, but the scene, before

the article even begins, takes it one step further to stigmatize, delegitimize and outright ridicule a number of effective methods for practicing safer sex.

Read along with the in-your-face cover "is safe sex so 90s?" it feels like the

Scene wishes safer sex actually did take a giant leap backwards. Next time one of your writers

puts in such a brilliant effort to advance the University's healthy practices and

knowledge maybe you should put more effort into supporting his or her message

and cause, rather than belittling it before the article even has a chance to

appear.

To Emma and her article, "well done".

To everything else about this scene - HUGE Thumbs down!!

I can see the argument that the real issue is promiscuity and the practicing of safe sex, but the stats do demonstrate that gay/bisexual men are more likely to have HIV than straight men. Short of testing every donor, I thnk that this is a reasonable approach. Surely there are much bigger issues surrounding homophobia than this - there is clearly no intent to be homophobic, merely a desire to keep blood safe through a practical approach.

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