A recent Feministing post kicks so much ass that all I can say is, go read it.Feministing: There's nothing rebellious about purity
Taking on recent articles equating father-oriented "purity balls" as a revolutionary approach to girl-power, Jessica brilliantly opines:
"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."
Feministing nails it again.
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