Abstinence thong: Irony you can wear
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In case you can’t read the small print, it says
“Earn the right to wear white.”
ABSTAIN
Goodness. Where to begin?
Who wears white? The Bride, of course. The Princess for a Day. The Virgin Offering. Certainly not her potential husband. You don’t see any abstinence boxers out there. So, the target audience for these words of mind-control encouragement is the girl who wears it? If that’s true, why isn’t it oriented the other way? She’s not going to see it that way, is she? From where she stands, it says something more like this:
While I respect the right of a young woman to genuinely choose to practice abstinence (because it’s all about choice), should she really be wearing these? With all the good things she is already denying herself (or at least deferring), it does seem a shame to relegate the poor thing to granny panties, but you have to admit the teeniest bit of cognitive dissonance between the medium and the message here.
But the target audience can’t be anyone else, can it? It’s not like her boyfriend will be seeing it until after the rock goes on the finger and the Big White Dress comes off. Because that print, it’s pretty fine. He’d have to be awfully close to be reading it. Far too close for any male associated with a woman of THIS kind of purity.
Her girlfriend, then? Um, no. Not even on the radar. Girls who wear these things do not have girlfriends. Or if they do, they’re probably being De-Programmed even as we speak. (Which is odd, given that girl-on-girl sex isn’t “real” sex. “Real” sex? Oh, you know, PIV, the only kind that really counts…)
Oh, perhaps it’s the other (straight) girls in the locker room! So the young woman buys this for herself, and then flaunts it to the other girls as a way to shame them from their shameless ways. In a thong.
Or do the young woman’s parents buy it for her? Because conservative parents, they’re just yearning to buy their daughters sexy underthings. Especially barely-there sexy underthings that will almost certainly require a high degree of hair management.
All these questions lead to the final one: WWJD?
Tearing his hair out? Beating his head against a wall? Trying to convince dad that another flood is in order? One thing is certain: he would not be wearing one. Even if he were a girl.
via: Feministing
August 8th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I saw a mention of this somewhere else recently. Makes. No. Sense. As you say, the medium and the message don’t seem to have anything to do with each other.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Oh, I think just because someone plans to wed as a virgin, it doesn’t mean there’s nothing else going on… I think there are a lot of “technical virgins” out there hanging onto that claim for a fingernail.