Remember when "Gleek" was sort of like hocking a loogie?
I don't know how many years behind I am, but occasionally, I watch half an episode of Glee. At first, I wasn't sure if the show was making fun of itself, its subject matter, or just me for watching it. But I was interested in the characters and kept watching. I'm somewhere in the second season now.
I saw the Madonna episode and it ticked me off. Three characters decide to take charge of themselves by losing their virginity. By the end of the episode you know that 2 didn't and one did. What ticked me off was that while it was apparently deemed best for the women to remain pure, the male character learned that sex can be meaningless, and that was the best lesson he could get. How come he couldn't have learned to take charge of himself by being true to his principles, feelings, and the people he cared about?
I thought that the episode wound up ironically perpetuating the myths problems that it was supposedly addressing.
Why does it always fall on the girls to be pure? Why?
I saw the Madonna episode and it ticked me off. Three characters decide to take charge of themselves by losing their virginity. By the end of the episode you know that 2 didn't and one did. What ticked me off was that while it was apparently deemed best for the women to remain pure, the male character learned that sex can be meaningless, and that was the best lesson he could get. How come he couldn't have learned to take charge of himself by being true to his principles, feelings, and the people he cared about?
I thought that the episode wound up ironically perpetuating the myths problems that it was supposedly addressing.
Why does it always fall on the girls to be pure? Why?