Posted on 01/15/2020 11:18:05 PM PST by Morgana
A famous TikTok star with 1.7 million followers and who goes by the name Nurse Holly has been getting inundated with scorn for the past few days on social media for daring to state the most obvious and commonsensical of medical truths: abstinence “best” prevents STDs.
In the recent TikTok video, Nurse Holly employs some flashy captions to relay a rather simple message. “The best way to prevent STDs is waiting for sex until marriage. Just the truth,” she says in the video.
Though the video has since been deleted, people on social media have still been sharing it on other platforms with the intention of inviting ridicule. Here is just one such sampling:
Other nurses, the ones more concerned with being hip rather than being factual, took to Twitter to roast Nurse Holly and even created their own TikTok videos, denouncing her position as antiquated, dangerous, and judgmental while promoting stigma against people with STDs.
“So tired of nurses acting a fool on their large platforms. Promoting irresponsible and biased rhetoric regarding public health in an effort to go viral is so low and so so dangerous. Abstinence teaching does not equate to safe sex. So here’s my response,” tweeted Sarah, RN.
“Healthcare professionals that don’t let judgment guide their practice let me hear y’all make some noise!!!” tweeted nurse Diego as he shared his parody video.
“Did you know that one of the best ways to prevent STIs is to stop stigmatizing them so people feel comfortable talking about them?” Diego says in his video. “While abstinence is a valid way to prevent the spreading of STIs, more comprehensive education about the spectrum of options available is important. Creating a safe space for people to talk about their intimate history, being nonjudgmental, and actually attempting to be helpful is best practice in healthcare. Most importantly: STOP SHAMING PEOPLE AND BE A DECENT HUMAN BEING.”
Medical experience or no medical experience, the trolls hating on Nurse Holly were relentless, with each vitriolic statement outdoing the other in an online outrage contest.
“@StThomas_Health this is one of your nurses and she seems to have missed the lectures on sexually transmitted infections as well as refraining from shaming patients. It is very disturbing that she cares for anyone,” tweeted one user.
“She looks like every girl who was mean in high school but went into nursing because ‘Oh my god I’m just such a caring and compassionate person,'” tweeted another user.
“I went to nursing school with her. She’s actually a practicing RN. I saw these views and beliefs firsthand from her, many of my classmates, and even some of my professors. I completely regret going to a private Christian college for nursing school…very scary,” tweeted another.
Speaking with BuzzFeed News, Nurse Holly, who would not reveal her full name or personal information in fear of reprisal, apologized “for any offense that was taken” and that she “only wish[es] to promote positivity and healthy lifestyles.”
According to a 2010 study out of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Waterloo in Canada, as well as the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, abstinence-only education works even when it does not have a moral component attached. As reported by NPR, the study showed that when 662 middle schoolers were given abstinence-only education, sexual activity dropped significantly:
The researchers developed a curriculum that was designed to get middle schoolers in the 6th and 7th grades to put off having sex until they were more more mature and could handle the consequences.
There were no lectures. It was an interactive program. The young people had discussions about resisting peer pressure, through role playing and games.
Unlike previous programs it did not define abstinence as delaying sex until marriage.
Two years after completing the program, a survey showed that the abstinence training was effective in getting 67% of the kids to delay having sex. That’s compared to 48% of students in another group who only received basic health information.
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You gotta be tough if you’re going to be stupid.
This sort of thing is why our society is doomed.
STOP SHAMING PEOPLE AND BE A DECENT HUMAN BEING.”
How, exactly, do you shame a person who isn’t ashamed of themselves.
Responsibility is a bad word, when things go wrong they just point their finger at anyone or everyone around them
I agree.
We have “tyranny by snowflakes.”
Yet another of the many social media tools that are dumbing down the younger generations.
Chinese spyware that people willingly download onto their "smart" phones in order to watch dumb videos.
TikTok is a Social media platform similar to what Vine used to be. Formally, it was known as Musical-y. It’s basically where teens and tweens can post short videos of themselves lip-synching to songs or doing other various stuff. What kids really like about it is the side by side feature where you can literally place your video side by side split screen style with someone else’s video to either complement it in some way, or mock It or whatever creative way you want to use it. You do not need the other parties permission to do this, which makes it fun
Unfortunately, the app is owned by a Chinese company. So the Chinese government is basically spying on these kids.
I don’t know either.
She states the truth.
Men can just take matters into their own hands. Prevents spreading STDs, a lousy evening out and no money spent.
If you are NOT having sex, how is it not safe? Apparently Sarah N does not understand basic biology
“Did you know that one of the best ways to prevent STIs is to stop stigmatizing them so people feel comfortable talking about them?” Diego says in his video. “... STOP SHAMING PEOPLE AND BE A DECENT HUMAN BEING.”
Oddly enough shaming people for inappropriate behavior was wildly successful at stopping that behavior for hundreds or thousands of years. It only becomes ineffective when people no longer have any shame (like liberals).
Enabling people to be comfortable in that behavior however encourages the spread of it even further. Look at faggotry for example. They used to be shunned and we never heard of them. Now they are celebrated and they seem to be polluting everything (and molesting our children)
Tik Tok has Chinese spyware on it. Avoid it if you value the security of your smart phone.
WTH is a TikTok?
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