How Not To Deal With Finding Out You Have An STD And Other Lessons From "Girls"
The last episode also explored the power of Twitter, the glory of dancing to Robyn, and more. Here are ten things I learned.
1. Girlfriends are never happy when boyfriends shave their heads.
2. Do not cry when your best friend tells you she has an STD.
Do you think it will make her feel better?
3. “All adventurous women have HPV.”
“Jessa has HPV. A few strains of it. She says all adventurous women do,” Shoshanna tells Hannah upon learning she has HPV. Though HPV is the most common STD in the United States, and often harmless, it shouldn’t be glorified as a badge of the adventurous.
4. Guys cannot be tested for HPV.
If you already knew, let this serve as a friendly reminder. So, if like Hannah, your current squeeze says it wasn’t him who gave you HPV and cites a clean STD test as evidence, know he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. This means it’s also a bad idea to accuse your now-gay ex-boyfriend of giving it to you.
5. Any guy with a name like “Booth Jonathan” is going to be a creep.
Says the charming Booth Jonathan to Marnie: “The first time I f*** you I might scare you a little because I’m a man and I know how to do things.”
6. Children are the future.
Their “novels” – even at just ten pages long – are so smart and sophisticated that you’ll be left lying on the ground eating string cheese and wondering where you went wrong in the last twenty years.
7. Oh come on, don’t get high and flirt with the Dad of the kid you’re babysitting for.
Not only is it kind of clichéd, it will make you feel all kinds of icky and inappropriate when the cute kid comes in and tells you she can’t sleep because you’re being too loud. Also, the Mom is going to walk in the door any second now.
8. You can always come home and tweet away your sorrows.
Even if your following:followers ratio is a sad 902:26.
9. If all else fails, dancing on your own to Robyn’s “Dancing On My Own” really will make anything better.
10. It also works if you dance with a friend.
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Leaps a year agoTo one of the comments before who said “HPV is so not a big deal” must not have been told by her doctor that Guardasil protects against only some of the many possible strains of HPV, not including some of the many strains causing cervical cancer…. Sexually active women need to be aware that men can be carriers and give it to us despite a lack of visible symptoms
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CherryCancer a year agoI don’t understand why people get so mad at this show. First, the race thing. I can get that. It’s rare that someone in NY would have NO non-white friends. Dunham has addressed this before and said if they get another season she’ll rectify it.
But I want to add, the girls in the show are her actual friends that she’s done a lot of other acting work with. I know if I was starting a show, I’d give work to my close actor friends that I think would suit the parts over people I didn’t know at all. And no, the show doesn’t have people who have all the right answers all the time and sometimes say ridiculous things, because that’s how most people are. Even more so with STD knowledge and the general populace of the US with the abstinence-only and STD-exaggerated or just plain fake information given. No wonder people are confused! This isn’t everyone’s struggles but it does touch on a lot of things that young women face in a light-hearted manner. Like episode two, if you were to get an abortion it’s not uncommon that you’d talk to your close friends for moral support. But with social events and planning so ingrained in us now, would it be so far fetched to have someone act like waiting in the clinic room go a step over board and act like an everyday get-together? Only to have it defused with a “I’m sorry she ruined this lovely abortion you threw.” The show has extremely witty writing and is very insightful. It’s a great reflection of early 20 somethings taking almost benign happenstance and making it into the most important event of anyone’s life. In a time where everyone wants all attention on them/their blog/their youtube channel/ their band/ their thesis, whatever, this show can make you stop and think “hey, this isn’t dire. Time to refocus” -
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kea718 a year ago
Also, you can have HPV and never know it. It doesn’t necessarily show up on a pap and doesn’t usually cause any symptoms, unless you end up with genital warts. Yes, it increases a woman’s chance of cervical cancer, but then again not all HPV strains can cause cervical cancer. I’m always shocked when young adults who are sexually active know nothing about HPV. I had a friend who though genital warts were a form of Herpes… They are not. Herpes and HPV are two totally different things but u might not want to look up the images for that even if it’s just to prove to someone that herpes and warts are different… Ewww, something I can never un-see.
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kea718 a year ago
This episode pissed me off. Most people who partake in uprotected sex have some strain of HPV, it’s INCREDIBLY common. Also, she mentioned NOTHING about the HPV vaccine Guardasil which I’m pretty sure the Dr would recommend because even though she has it she can still be protected by other strains. Also, for someone who’s that freaked out about Std’s you’d think she’d know a little bit about the STD’s she’s so concerned about, like DUH, unless a guy has genital warts there is no way of knowing if a guy has HPV. HPV is so not a big deal at all. Idk why inkeep watching this show, it really annoys me And I can’t stand this Lena Dunahm or whatever her name is.
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GroovyMe a year agoHPV (the virus). Approximately 20 million Americans are currently infected with HPV. Another 6 million people become newly infected each year. HPV is so common that at least 50% of sexually active men and women get it at some point in their lives. Genital warts. About 1% of sexually active adults in the U.S. have genital warts at any one time. Cervical cancer. Each year, about 12,000 women get cervical cancer in the U.S. Almost all of these cancers are HPV-associated. Other cancers that can be caused by HPV are less common than cervical cancer. Each year in the U.S., there are about: 1,500 women who get HPV-associated vulvar cancer
500 women who get HPV-associated vaginal cancer
400 men who get HPV-associated penile cancer
2,700 women and 1,500 men who get HPV-associated anal cancer
1,500 women and 5,600 men who get HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancers (cancers of the back of throat including base of tongue and tonsils) [Note: Many of these cancers may also be related to tobacco and alcohol use.] http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv.htm
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