Clearly I'm not right in the head.

[apocalypsos]

Current writing status:

My Bigbang -- Weeeeeeell. Hmm. I have an idea, and I have it started. I also have two weeks and something like seventeen thousand words to go. I could finish it in time, and it would help if I got laid off for this next shift, too, but even if I don't get it done for Bigbang I'm still planning on finishing the damn thing. Oh, yeah, and that plan I had to beef up the numbers on it yesterday? I ended up slacking off instead. I think I needed that, though, because I've been all WRITE WRITE WRITE for weeks now.

My novel -- Pretty good, actually. I'm going to try to get two more chapters done today and if I'm lucky I'll crack the halfway point by the time I'm theoretically going back to work on Friday.

Other things:

1. I'm currently watching The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for some reason and Will Smith just walked into the room talking on a Zach Morris phone. That amuses me far more than it probably should. Oh, the late eighties and early nineties. Heh.

2. The 3 Trillion Dollar Shopping Spree -- What can you buy with $3 trillion that's NOT an illegal war that's killed thousands?

3. Pop stars who use chastity as a career move -- This is one of those things I roll my eyes over. I especially cringed at that "pure until marriage" bit from one of the Jonas Brothers (because they're apparently all wearing purity rings, EW) because I'd love for them to test me for purity. Not the technical version of purity, but the kind of purity where I don't watch porn or write smut or read erotica.

Also, to anybody wearing a "purity ring" -- the rest of us virgins want you to STOP THAT. Not only are you making us look stupid and like we're lying ("Oh, yes, Dad, I'm totally saving myself for marriage ... *innocent whistle*"), but some of you need to stop symbolically marrying your fathers in public. Also, that technical virgin bullshit's got to stop too.

Comments

[22by7.livejournal.com]

it is seriously disturbing, yes, these people who are righteous about virginity and make a huge deal about it.

and 'purity' in anything is so massively overrated and boring. sigh.

[phiremangston.livejournal.com]

After living in an extraordinarily conservative Christian community throughout my teenage years, I can guarantee that about 85-90% of the girls who wore chastity rings had had sex by the time she graduated.

*sigh* I mean, I don't have sex, but I don't flaunt it. It's just vain and makes everyone else look bad if you do.

[modillian.livejournal.com]

Oh lord, The Jonas Brothers?! Erm, at least they can say there's some equality in the ridiculousness of dudes wearing purity rings too. Comletely agreeing with you on the rings and stupid technical virgin crap. I'll technical virgin you all the way back to my porn collection, *snort*.

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

#3 The whole thing is ridiculous.

The ones that make me laugh are the "born again" virgins. How does one declare themselves a virgin again after having sex?

The article mentions that Britney pioneered virginity as a career move. We all saw how well that worked out. The words "train wreck" come to mind.

The "marrying your dad" thing is seriously creepy. Didn't Texas just raid a cult compound for that sort of thing?

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

We used to say in college that if you didn't have sex of any sort for three years your virginity spontaneously regenerated, but we were joking!!!

crevette posted some excerpts last summer from the abstinence based sex education Liv was having to do as part of her camp program.

Scary stuff. As Crev said -- any of her daughter's hopes and dreams for herself were supposed to pale in comparison to the "prize" of being a virgin on her wedding day.

You know who I used as a model of virginity when discussing sex with Robin? Cher Horowitz. Best line advocating virginity ever: "You've seen how picky I am about my shoes, and they only go on my feet."

[azurelunatic]

Goodness gracious. Pickily-maintained virginity sounds like it should be a means to an end (self-respect, not fucking the unworthy, not having goals interfered with by unintended consequences of unwise sex) rather than the end in and of itself.

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

I suspect based on your reaction that I wasn't clear in my original post.

That's exactly what I took from Alicia Silverstone's delivery and how I've taught my daughter.

[azurelunatic]

What I said was supposed to be agreement. :)

[honorh.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I'm not against celebs speaking their beliefs--we're all entitled, after all--but when they use virginity as some kind of marketing, they're just begging to get tabloidized. Look at early Britney, after all. I'm not shy about my beliefs and practice, just am not, but I like to think I'm not self-righteous about it.

Also, I write smut. Two stories so far. Arr, I'm a rebel!

[squirrelarmy.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who talks about virginity being a powerful thing and whatnot, but she's pretty much done everything BUT have penetrative sex, so I'm kinda intrigued by the "technical" virgin end of it. Because one the one hand, when you say "have had sex", it tends to imply penetration rather than oral sex or fingering or whatnot.

Also, agreed with the EW factor of symbolically marrying your father. Cos seriously. Gross. Freud aside, gross. ;P

[theliel.livejournal.com]

but marring daughters is a time honored tradition of the fallen faithful who are parading as faithful and calling upon gods wrath. until they themselves suck god's wrath.

i'm waiting.

the obsessing over virginity seems to come and go every cuntury. we need new forntier so we can send these fucks off somwhere where they can't hurt us.

[azurelunatic]

I have serious, serious, serious father/daughter squicks, and ... eww. Yes.