The Middle Distance

It occurs to me now that if I'd had some minor injury while menstruating, I surely might've bled and not noticed. *shrug* Yeah, that's probably not the first thing that would occur to me either - I'd probably think, "Isn't spotting a symptom of pregnancy sometimes"? XD

I think probably the creepiest thing I've heard of in modern US culture is the Purity Ball phenomenon - little girls pledging their virginity to the care of their fathers until they're married. BLARGH!!!!! (I can just imagine the look on my dad's face if I ever asked him to participate in something like that. XD) And yeah, it is all about the "value" of women being determined only by sex, and "used goods" being "diminished" somehow (honey, it's not like you're going to run out of it) to men, and...ugh, it's just nine kinds of icky.

Not to mention, I think the romanticized concept of "saving yourself" so you can have tremendously wonderful soulshaking sex for the first time on your wedding night is kind of like never practicing your figure skating so you can "save yourself" for the Olympics. Highly illogical.