🐱 People are offended that Miley Cyrus called virginity a ‘social construct’

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People are offended that Miley Cyrus called virginity a 'social construct'

Why does the vagina have teeth, though?
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In yet another chapter of Miley Cyrus’ long history of being provocative and controversial, the pop singer is most recently under fire for calling virginity a “social construct.”

With her recent “Mother’s Daughter” video and She is Coming EP, Cyrus is continuing to push empowering feminist narratives. Cyrus is clearly trying to continue that narrative on Instagram.

The first post in question, from July 9, shows a still of Cyrus from the “Mother’s Daughter” video with the phrase, “Virginity is a social construct.” Cyrus’ second post features her latex-covered hands around a vagina dentata, or a vagina with teeth, reiterating the phrase.
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The controversy stems from the phrase “virginity is a social construct,” as some feel it is an attack on people who value their virginity.

“Honestly you shouldn’t be posting stuff like that,” Instagram user @anastasiiama wrote. “You should respect people’s choices and respect the fact that you have a young audience too. It’s not okay to shame people that chose to stay virgin.”

Some think Cyrus is rejecting science with her claim.

“That’s like saying puberty or menstration [SIC] is a social contract,” Instagram user @geoffcowan87 wrote. “They’re physical things, they involve physical changes. The strange stigmas people place on them are certainly through social constructs, but virginity itself is not. The ‘value’ we place on it is”

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Others said they felt the posts attacked religious beliefs.

“I mean to some people are religious they should be able to believe and put importance on it because it is to them I think it shouldn’t be used to judge peoples character,” Instagram user @_fighting.evil.by.moonlight_ wrote.

However, some people felt empowered by Cyrus’ post. Instagram user @boovu detailed how they felt the concept of virginity has been used to police women and their bodies.

“Yes and placing a woman’s value based on virginity is a social construct designed by men to belittle and enslaved women,” the user wrote.
 
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Virginity itself isn’t, the value one places in it is. Both the good, the idea of ‘purity’ I suppose, and the bad, the Incels like Elliot who take it to seriously.
None of that matters, the real question is this:
In “Big”, did the main character ‘regrow’ his virginity? And is the lady who did Tom Hanks a pedophile?
Discuss.
 
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BigRuler dijo:
how would that work
outside of some really fucked up fringe cases (like someone contracting HIV from their mother during birth) i can't figure out how that is supposed to happen
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Sure, during birth, needles, blood transfusion (although not so much anymore). Obviously sex is the most common way they're spread, that's why they're called sexually transmitted diseases. HPV is a good example, I think.

Obviously if you HAD to have unprotected sex with someone, and the only info you had was whether or not they had ever had sex, choosing a virgin would be the statistically safest choice.
 
Petronella dijo:
But this whole "virginity is a social construct" idea in many cases is an excuse for a girl to act like a thot and then tell people they only have a problem with it because society tells them to.
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I mean, they pretty much only do have a problem with it because society tells them to. YMMV on if society is right to do so, but it's definitely a societal thing. If society started telling us thottery was good eventually most people would be down with it.
 
Recon dijo:
I wonder if she'll end up in Dubai one day, servicing wealthy arabs.
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Dude, be nice, even for here! Don't you think those guys in Dubai have better taste than that?

OmniousAttributer dijo:
R.A.P.E. IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT.
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No, it's shoplifting.

Anyway this seems awfully familiar. Quote from someone I forget a long time ago: "I read a sensible remark in a woman’s magazine once, along the lines that men will mock virginity – when they are trying to seduce a virgin.”
…and they will claim to prefer fat chicks when trying to seduce a fat chick. At the end of the day though, men invest in what they view as valuable, and do not invest in what they do not view as valuable."
Sounds like ugly ol' MC knows she's garbage goods, and she wants some loser to latch onto her, so she's mocking this as a way to validate her evil lifestyle and advocacies, and get some naive person to think she's as valuable as someone with self control and moral fiber.
 
Pretty much everything is a social construct in terms of how society creates traditions, mores, and values based on the associations and importance it places on certain concepts. Did you know: money is a social construct?

Why is this suddenly news to people? I understand some very sensitive Christians could be butthurt because this challenges the notion that virginity wasn't a concept descended on high by God himself, but I suspect most religious people could acknowledge that the majority of society's traditions and associations of virginity and its value are primarily culturally-based.

I guess nobody took an introductory sociology course.
 
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