Purity Balls

i've probably written about these things before, but they are these big dance events that daughters attend with their fathers where they promise not to lose their virginity until they are married, which i don't know, personally, i think is a little whacked out.

But anyway, feministing.com had an article about it and how people are always like this is revolutionary, the girls who participate in this are apart of a larger counterculture.

the author of the post was talking about how these things are NOT revolutionary and simply perpetuate the same ideas that over-sexed pop stars send out.

Pop culture tells women that their bodies are public property and that they have to be sexual in order to be desirable and loved. Purity balls and the like tell women that their bodies are private property (though not our own of course--our bodies belong to our fathers, husbands, and the men in our life) and that they have to be virginal in order to be desirable and loved. In either case women's sexuality belongs to everyone but women. There's nothing counter-cultural or cutting edge about that.

interesting stuff.