I am wondering what that transition fade and the look on his face after was about.

Elizabeth Smart had some interesting things to say about the whole "virgin = value" concept.

Ultimately, it comes down to a mindset that has women being possessions that can lose their value if they aren't in mint condition, rather than people.

It's pretty ugly, but it's also old and entrenched.

Fence posts?

its not just a gross cultural remnant. Its at least partly ingrained in human nature. Off the top of my head here are two factors why there would have been selection pressure for this behaviour.. If one of our male ancestors got a virgin pregnant it would be a guarantee that they were not cuckolded by some other guy, also girls who have just become fertile (and have not had a kid already obvs) gave the best chance of carrying and giving birth without any issues (or one or both of them dying)

We cant really change human nature but if we understand it as much as possible then we can build our society in such a way as to bypass/calculate for it and achieve the results we want.

Fence posts as in, women can lose their hymens by accidentally falling on them, or by any manner of activity not necessarily sex-related. That wasn't the best example to use without context.

Elizabeth Smart was spot-on with what she said. I can't imagine what it's like to be raped by a monster for almost a year, but this silly bullshit probably doesn't help someone going through that situation.

Only if you're a girl.

In its classic form, you're actually supposed to end the first and last line with the same word, not just a rhyme (c.f. Edward Lear's work, The Lure of the Limerick, and others). Which makes them not nearly as good, so I have to share it so others will suffer as I do knowing the sad truth, that properly structured limericks are usually kind of shitty.

Here's how it should go:



There once was a girl named Regina
Who said God had fixed her vagina
She vowed to stay true
Until sixty-two
That foolish young girl named Regina.




It sucks now, doesn't it?

Yup. But the Meerkat's was rock solid. It's all about innovation. Cast off those tired old forms! Dance the mutation!

Man that sucks. But I can be clever because I live in Canada and know about Saskatchewan.

There once was a girl named Regina
Who said God had fixed her vagina
She vowed to stay true
Until sixty-two
But then she got drunk in Regina.