just the links, ma'am, just the links

[chimerically]

Why are there so few girl characters in kids' movies? And what's up with "purity balls" and this obsession with "naive abstinence"? (I actually have some ideas about where the whole virginity obsession comes from, but I'll save that for another rant.)



That is all.

Comments

Re: virginity

[anemone.livejournal.com]

I said: "Women's ability to produce children is the greatest resource the human race has."
You said:
What makes you say this? Every organism on the planet has the ability to reproduce itself. I don't see it as the most important resource of human society beyond the most basic need for continuing the species.

Your second sentence says it all. I didn't mean anything beyond that, but I find that pretty significant. If we don't reproduce, we die out, and any other resources we may or may not have are pretty damn useless. Now, obviously, we need both male and female to do this reproducing thing. However, the female half is clearly the limiting factor, since it takes 9 months in her body, and then an additional 2-4 years of infertility is associated with each child. (In modern society, with formula and an abudance of food, fertility returns much quicker.)

Re: virginity

[tokyorose329.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but any idiot can--and will--make babies. It's hardwired in, and it's such a given that we're going to do it that it doesn't set us apart from any other species. That was my point.

Re: virginity

[anemone.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. I never meant to imply that reproducing made us any different than animals. I don't think we are much other than animals, as it happens.

Re: virginity

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

This subthread further cements my respect for folks like Dawkins who are willing to take on the thankless task of trying to communicate this stuff to folks who aren't in their field. Seems like it's always 10% making points, 90% explaining why you didn't mean what you're being accused of.