Letters to the Editor
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Straight talk, anyone?
Whatever happened to simply sitting down with your kid and explaining quietly the possible emotional, physical, and social consequences of having sex? This is just an example of people trying to raise their kids with absolutes instead of with a sense of consequences. The hilarious result of raising a kid with absolutes based upon a primitive, anthropomorphic god with beard and flashing eyes is that there are so many loopholes, not to mention logical inconsistencies in the belief system that the poor indoctrinated kid must simply jettison the irrational to justify a temporary nihilism. Then he can have fun! Get laid! Get drunk! Be a real person! I watch in bemusement as one by one, the Christian teenagers who have valiantly tried to save my agnostic daughter's soul get pregnant, go to rehab, drop out of school...and my daughter carries on.
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lauralooch is actually a repressed Evangelical Christian
She just doesn't know it yet
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for the record
there is more than one "anon" here.
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for the record
there are hundreds of anons here you moron
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there's lots of anon postings but lots of them
are coming from the same source, not all though
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if it bothers you
then sign your name
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Ew, indeed
It took me a second to realize what kind of ball we were talking about here. At first I imagined a spherical thing and was trying desperately not to think about where it might go!
Adam
http://judgmentcall.blogspot.com
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It doesn't bother me at all
as long as the facts are known
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oy!
The fathers are effectively coercing their daughters into making this pledge, which inevitably extends beyond childhood. Not all girls will end up getting married by the time they are adults. Not all girls will get married nor will each of them be heterosexual. The reason that so many girls are having sex in spite of these pledges for virginity is because they aren't giving the pledges through educated and free choice, but through coercion and ritual. Parents who have benevolent intent for their daughters are trying to chain their daughters to morality. Who can possibly be surprised that it fails 88 percent of the time?
One of the major lessons these girls are learning is how to live inauthentic lives where compromise and force is a learned trait of femininity. I'm glad so many of them are rebelling but I hope there is some kind of avenue for them to cultivate their individuality in a culture that objectifies women. These girls should be taught how to construct their own boundaries and make compassionate choices for themselves. It's too bad that it is likely not happening. Femininity is far more complex and beautiful than patriarchal dogma would have us believe.