Is it me, or this "Purity Ball" logo a little creepy?

[Bluebear]

http://www.thechristiancenter.cc/purityball/index.php

"It is our pleasure to hold high the banner of purity in the midst of a culture that destroys it. We hope you will join us as we encourage young women to commit to moral purity and help them understand the beautiful and righteous life God offers them. The Bible lays the responsibility of protecting daughters at the feet of their fathers. We desire to charge men to take up this mantle of responsibility!"

[BattyDem]

1. Ewwwww!

:puke:

[SteppingRazor]

2. It is maybe a touch pederast-y, isn't it?

:scared:

[Bluebear]

4. Like the cover of some romance novel! nt

[MADem]

3. Well, yes. But the entire concept is sick. Especially when you think of the word BALL as a verb.

Which was a popular useage, four decades ago.....

[Bluebear]

5. I remember.

The usage lol.

[LuckyTheDog]

6. Yikes

One could write several pages about why that is creepy -- and in how many ways.

[Mojambo]

7. Beyond creepy

At least it's not Motherboy!

[Quantess]

56. LOL. Is that from Arrested Development?

[Mojambo]

60. You know it. n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

8. Daddy's Little Sexually Delicious Princess

That's what it really boils down to. And it gives me the creeps.

[Warpy]

18. Pledging one's hymen to Daddy creeps me out no end

That logo is just too disgusting for words.

[TahitiNut]

51. Almost as creepy as naming two states after an (allegedly) intact hymen?

:silly:

[SunDrop23]

66. Silly.

Purity ball....bwahahahahahahahahaha.

[blogslut]

9. That's messed up

So very

[aquart]

10. The rose is a vulva symbol, sacred to Aphrodite.

So the logo basically says, here's what you want, too damn bad.

[Caution]

11. The entire concept is creepy. Daddy, I promise to keep my virginity for you!

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[Mist]

26. Two words: emotional incest. But we know RWers are sexually off kilter, don't we? nt

[Bluebear]

68. You said it lulu nt

[hwmnbn]

12. Yep, way creepy....

All sorts of subliminal imagery. Flowering, Dad, daughter...

These clowns would rather stick to some whacked out biblical script rather than acknowledge reality.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. LOL

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IKF35XegmqQ

[Bluebear]

16. "She'll pretty much have to"

That's marketing!

[bluedog]

14. my mind must be in the gutter

I think this is sick!

[napi21]

15. Ya know, I wasn't alive yet, but this looks and sounds like the

days of the puritans! Bring back them high necked, long skirted dresses, eliminate all alcohol, somking, swearing, and DIRTY SEX! I guess somebody gave the remaining puritians a loud voice recently!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. This is beyond sick. Wait until Daddy learns that his virginal princess gives blow

jobs as not to lose her virginity.

[Mojambo]

20. Really? Maybe I should think about crashing this party. n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

25. This is from the UK

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1502924

[youngdem]

19. Creepy. Are you talking about Thompson though? I think that is his wife.

[LostinVA]

50. There's nothing wrong with age differential relationships

provided everyone is consenting adults. I have no idea what this has to do with Thompson's wife.

[w13rd0]

21. This is just the latest bit of tripe...

...from the same people that brought us the Promise Keepers. Mass marketed "non-denominational" fundamentalism. The Taliban has nothing on our religiously insane.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

22. Must be a put-on.

Are the Yes Men behind this?

[walldude]

23. Wow, it's like one of those subliminal ads where there is a naked

chick hidden in an ice cube. I bet if I stare at it long enough...

[otherlander]

30. Naked people in ice cubes?

Where was that?

[walldude]

32. Oh man I used to see them all the time, usually in Vodka ads

next time you see an ad for liquor that has a glass with ice in it see if you can find the subliminal shape of a nude woman. Although they may have put an end to that practice but I doubt it. I'll see if I can find one for you.

[otherlander]

58. I'll have to look for that.

This reminds me... I never figured out if the Wizard of Oz suicidal munchkin was real or just a myth. :D

[HughBeaumont]

24. There isn't enough vomit in my stomach to convey what I think.

"Father, will you protect my sacred flower?"
"Gladly, for it is His will."
"Thank you daddy!"

[fishwax]

27. I think the purity ball is creepy in general

and, yeah, that logo definitely fits the description.

[MuseRider]

28. No not just you.

That is, holy crap, that is awful and creepy and and and.....ewwwwwwww.

[mcscajun]

29. Everything about the "Purity Ball" concept and the "Silver Ring Thing" is creepy.

Everything.

But this logo takes it all to another level.

Shades of Georgia O'Keefe with that Rose. Too weirdly erotic for the concept. Sick stuff, IMO.

[otherlander]

31. I'm not sure who that insults more:

Men or women.

Women, because that makes it sound as if they're posessions, but men, because, if you touch one of them, YOU MIGHT BECOME IMPURE!!!!!

PANIC!!!!

[Solly Mack]

33. that's just wrong

makes my skin crawl

[porphyrian]

34. There's nothing that isn't creepy about "purity balls" in general. - n/t

[WinkyDink]

35. Let me ask Georgia O'Keefe and get back to you.

[Sal Minella]

40. Ha! THAT'S what I was trying to think of!!!

[TheCentepedeShoes]

57. Hi, y'all

This stuff is creepy. My dad and I did attend a Brownie box supper in '58 and when they called the dads up to the stage he did do the meanest Charelston...but this stuff is well, freaky.

[Feron]

36. It's not just you.

Personally I find that more than a little disgusting.

[Lint Head]

37. The center of the flower looks like the interior of a vagina.

[LostinVA]

38. That's more than a little creepy

If my Dad had wanted to do something like that, my mom would have been getting a divorce attorney.

[Botany]

39. creepy

just creepy

and if those girls feel normal sexual feelings then they will think that
Daddy and or Jesus will not love 'em anymore.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

41. "And she'll have fun fun fun 'til her Daddy locks her hymen awayyy"

:)

[WinkyDink]

42. "She forgot all about the 'no-sex thing' like she told her old man now."

[Bluebear]

45. "And with teen hormones flyin' so high, she's climbin' in back of a van, now..."

[SalmonChantedEvening]

48. "And the suspension it's-a takin' all of the stress that it can now..."

WEEEEEEEEEEE

:rofl:

[Bluebear]

67. OK I feel an album coming on

:hi:

[Jade Fox]

43. The whole concept of "purity" is creepy.......

What about being a virgin makes one pure? And does that mean sex is inherently polluting? (Yes, of course. Decent people know sex is DIRTY!!)

[Raine]

44. Eeekkk maybe I'm old fashioned (60's generation)

but I don't think a girl's hymen is an of her father's business. x(

[Laurier]

46. It's not just you.

It is creepy.

[riderinthestorm]

47. The silhouettes of the father and daughter even look like a vaginal canal.

Am I imagining things? Eek!

The subliminal messaging going on with this logo is just twisted!

[stlsaxman]

49. Blur your vision and it looks like a fetus n/t

[knitter4democracy]

52. My cousin took his daughter to one of those balls.

I should've taped him, he was so wigged out by the thought of his daughter growing up. If my husband tried to do that, I'd kick his a**. Well, I'd undo the spark plug wires at least. ;) That way, I'd have time to talk him out of it.

I told my cousin that growing up is part of God's plan, and that, if he truly trusts his daughter and has raised her right, she will make the right decision for herself and her body when the time comes. He sputtered on about how he needed to protect her, and I got off the phone right quick. He didn't seem to understand that I thought it was creepy and unnecessary.

[pink-o]

53. Oh, you KNOW that chick Dannah Greszh has a stash of porn photos somewhere!

...please, someone find and download them! I'd pay money for that!

So, let me get this straight: the idiot fundies wanna protect their daughter's virginity, but are CONSPICUOUSLY SILENT on what their sons do with theirs. How the fuck do they think their daughters lose virginity in the first place, if not for the horny, hormone-crazed males around them?

But the way this agnostic interpets fundie dogma is that the bible celebrates male sexuality, but female sexuality is dark and shameful.

Whatever. More fucked-up humans taking up space and using precious resources.

[EFerrari]

54. The concept of "purity" is already creepy, without the pink logo.

'Way to warp your kid's relationship to themself, their body and their sexuality.

[provis99]

55. "No one touches this but Daddy"

And I though child beauty contests were perverted. These purity people are nearly on the same level as those pedophilic polygamists who marry their 13 year old cousins.

[JanMichael]

59. Yech! Daddy don't kiss your girl on the mouth!

Freaks.

[Stephanie]

61. Typical. They're so repressed they can't even read their own iconography.

Here's a date for that logo. >>>

[SeattleGirl]

62. Extremely creepy.

I think there is something incestuous about the whole "purity" thing anyway. :scared:

[nini]

63. no... it's not just you

:scared:

makes me wanna barf!

[fortyfeetunder]

64. Females as property

It's all about control. Daddy owns and protects my body before I find a man to own me
:sarcasm:

[Warren DeMontague]

65. The whole fucking deal is filmed in 70mm Widescreen Creep-o-vision.

These people are out of their god-damn gourds.

[jazzjunkysue]

69. We want all of our sons to get a genuine virgin on his wedding night.

So, the fathers get together and form a cult: I'll keep my daughter a virgin if you will, then we can ransom them off with higher dowrys.

Welcome to the 12th century. Or Planet of the Apes.

"I just think I'm entitled to be the only man to insert his member into my own wife. Is that too much to ask?"

[pdxmom]

70. Actually, that logo looks like it should be used on a box of female

contraceptives. Creepy is an understatement.

[yurbud]

71. negative space between silhouette looks like woman with saddle bags and phone in back pocket

[yurbud]

72. PIC: I like the logo for what happens AFTER the ball: