That's fucked up. I mean even more fucked up than what goes on in patriarchical/traditional societies, where maybe the girl has to remain a virgin, but she doesn't get overstimulated by "dating" her father. She just gets to hang out with the women until marriage.
This is way more fucked up.
Joanna
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From: WD <mister.wd at gmail.com>
> There was a thread a long time ago about "purity balls" where
> evangelicals throw these big parties and daughters promise their
> fathers they'll remain celibate until marriage. This video explains
> the purity ball concept: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgA6KFKDBQw
>
> Yes, they're incredibly creepy, and grossly patriarchal with
> incestuous undertones, etc. Okay. But the NYT article today talks
> about two kids being "promised" to one another -- which sounds an
> awful lot like an arranged marriage to me. Is this some awful new
> Christian fundamentalist trend?
>
> It's weird to think who your parents would have picked for you to marry,
> -WD
>
> Dancing the Night Away, With a Higher Purpose
> By NEELA BANERJEE
> Published: May 19, 2008
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/us/19purity.html
> ...
> "Stephen Clark, 64, came to the ball for the first time with Ashley
> Avery, 17, who is "promised" to his son, Zane, 16. Mr. Clark brought
> Ashley, in her white satin gown, to show her that he loved her like a
> daughter, he said, something he felt he needed to underscore after
> Ashley's father left her family a year ago."
> ...
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