For all my YouTube junkies out there, I found a video of Zac Efron that has recently gone viral to be very applicable to what our American Studies class has been discussing. There is a clip of Zac Efron walking on the Red Carpet for the premiere of the Dr. Seuss movie The Lorax. In this clip, you can see after Efron reaches to get something out of his pocket, a gold condom falling out and onto the red carpet in front of thousands of viewers (including children). To watch this funny clip, click here.
You are probably wondering why so many people want to watch a condom fall out of Zac Efron's pocket. As a matter of fact, why do we care if he has a condom or is having sex at all? Isn't it a natural human urge and activity that millions of people participate in? That, my friends, was exactly what I thought. In American Studies today, we were discussing the two things that drive the human race: sex and death. Clearly, this idea that a celebrity dropped a contraceptive in front of thousands of viewers is amusing, but looking at the world around us, why would something as trivial as this get so much attention? There are hundreds of people dying every day across the world. Why don't they have over 3 million people looking at their names and lives instead of a silly thing that happened to a Disney Superstar on the glamorous red carpet? Are we, as Americans, just more fascinated by sex? By fame? Or do we just try to avoid death since it is so prevelent in out lives?
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Breaking News: Disney Star Inadvertently Teaches Children About Safe Sex at Dr. Seuss Premiere
For all my YouTube junkies out there, I found a video of Zac Efron that has recently gone viral to be very applicable to what our American Studies class has been discussing. There is a clip of Zac Efron walking on the Red Carpet for the premiere of the Dr. Seuss movie The Lorax. In this clip, you can see after Efron reaches to get something out of his pocket, a gold condom falling out and onto the red carpet in front of thousands of viewers (including children). To watch this funny clip, click here.
You are probably wondering why so many people want to watch a condom fall out of Zac Efron's pocket. As a matter of fact, why do we care if he has a condom or is having sex at all? Isn't it a natural human urge and activity that millions of people participate in? That, my friends, was exactly what I thought. In American Studies today, we were discussing the two things that drive the human race: sex and death. Clearly, this idea that a celebrity dropped a contraceptive in front of thousands of viewers is amusing, but looking at the world around us, why would something as trivial as this get so much attention? There are hundreds of people dying every day across the world. Why don't they have over 3 million people looking at their names and lives instead of a silly thing that happened to a Disney Superstar on the glamorous red carpet? Are we, as Americans, just more fascinated by sex? By fame? Or do we just try to avoid death since it is so prevelent in out lives?
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