Looking Out To Sea

Well, I was going to write about last night’s trip to the cinema, but this caught my eye and I couldn’t resist pointing it out. You might have heard of Poe’s Law:

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing.

It strictly applies to fundamentalism but is more generally considered to mean “you can’t come up with a parody so absurd that someone won’t believe it, or that someone already doesn’t”. It’s the more general sense that seems relevant here.

Despite endless evidence that it is both ineffective and dangerous, abstinence seems to be the predominant topic of sex education in the US. But how does one actually teach that? Uh, well, like this:

Men sexually are like microwaves and women sexually are like crockpots… a woman is stimulated more by touch and romantic words. She is far more attracted by a man’s personality while a man is stimulated by sight. A man is usually less discriminating about those to whom he is physically attracted.

Microwaves are turned on by sight? Crockpots are attracted to your personality?! I call Poe’s Law! This can’t possibly be real!

Unfortunately, it is, it really is.

(Hat tip.)