Comments on: Purity Rings: Because Not Everyone Wants To Be a Slut

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:50:05 +0000

*embarrassing. and ironic!
Cara, you need an edit button!

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:48:50 +0000

You’re embarassing. Your spelling, grammar, and the way you come across is embarassing. Russell Brand is an ass, no doubt. But.. erm.. you’re hardly presenting a reasonable and logical counterpoint to any of the points raised above. Screw purity. Let’s hear it for filth!

By: benfrankbabe

benfrankbabe — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:18:14 +0000

This upsets me.I was just searching for a purity ring and this popped up and to tell the truth im glad.How dare she judge anyone about their beliefs I would have booed too.LOUDLY.I think that Russel Brand is misunderstood…sheesh it was his first time.He probably looked at award shows earlier and the hosts’ tasteless jokes and though that was a good example.As for Sparks,I hold her responsible for her choice of words and the fact that she felt she had to call him out on it.That’s embarrassing!! BOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:04:40 +0000

“But this is the only rainbow one that I have and it’s a lot prettier than the other ones so I’ll bring you my old red one tomorrow”

The irony!

By: Joan Kelly

Joan Kelly — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:53:53 +0000

Thanks for giving me a way to look at it that leaves out me having to actively judge Jordin Sparks back – she *is* really young, and she herself did not pull that crap out of thin air and decide to be a disrespectful person in a vacuum.

It bummed me out, though. I really liked her duet with Chris Brown, and it was hard not to feel in retrospect like, ick, I had that fan-love feeling towards her and all the while she looks down her nose at people like me? If I were in the audience I can’t say that I wouldn’t have boo-ed at her remark.

But, I do so love to boo. It’s a rare occasion that provides for it, so I’m a little trigger happy.

By: Alison

Alison — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:11:10 +0000

When I heard about this, the first thing that came to mind for me was that, most likely, a good portion of her fanbase either is already sexually active (without being married) or doesn’t plan to wait until marriage to become so. Which means she was calling a good number of her fans sluts. I don’t think any celebrity should have to fawn all over their fans all the time, but they also shouldn’t outright insult them. Guess what, Jordin – without your fans, you wouldn’t be a celebrity, and you wouldn’t have such a big pedestal from which to spout your religiosity.

By: Lemur

Lemur — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:56:00 +0000

Jenna- what, REALLY? No ‘self-lovin’? That’s just cruel. “Hey, let’s all be virginal and completely inexperienced in ANY sexual thing, ever, and let’s make everyone else do it too! Quick, before anyone has any fun!”
…sheesh.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:43:36 +0000

It’s that instead of being some kind of personal reminder to that commitment, as they are supposed to be, purity rings tend to be more of an “I’m better than you” social statement.
It reminds me of highschool when those “W.W.J.D” bracelets got REALLY big and EVERYONE who was “anyone” in my highschool had one. I asked one of the girls on my volleyball team one day what her bracelet meant and she explained, “well, it means ‘what would jesus do’ and anytime someone asks you what it’s about, you’re supposed to explain it, give it to them, and invite them to church. But this is the only rainbow one that I have and it’s a lot prettier than the other ones so I’ll bring you my old red one tomorrow and, if you want, you can come to my youth group meeting with me on Wednesday night.”

Somehow I mustered a polite, “no thank you.”

It has been my personal experience that ANY of these religiously inspired trinkets or ANY that began within a religion, are more often than not a way to separate people and then judge those who do not have them. When I was 12, I was the only girl who refused to sign a “virginity pledge” (more because the ‘pledge’ to GOD stated that along with not having sex, you would also not engage in “self-pleasure” and there was NO WAY on this planet that I was going to make a promise to GOD, who I still believed in, not to do something I did at least everyday and enjoyed so much) so I was the only girl who did not recieve a cheap silver ring. This effectively set me apart from everyone else and they all acted like they were such better “christians” than I was.

By: Pop Feminist

Pop Feminist — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:02:44 +0000

I thought the same thing!

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:52:06 +0000

Finally an intelligent perspective on her comments, I have been looking for one all day on. Brand’s comment were tasteless, the MTV award show hosts comments usually are but there are so many other ways she could have responded then by labeling people who choose not to wait until marriage “Sluts”. There a millions of people out there for which religion plays no deciding factor in whether or not to have sex before marriage, it didn’t for me but I guess I am technically considered a slut regardless of the decisions I made based on my personal non religious value system. I was raised in a educational system that espoused abstinence only sex ed, but by time I was 18, I knew that abstinence was a personal choice and not a realistic choice for most women my age. But for those friends who did choose to stay a virgin until marriage I respected their choices irregardless of my own opinion on waiting until marriage and they did the same for me.

And honestly how often do guys get called sluts, I think its safe to say that 99% of the time I hear the word slut used in a conversation its referring to a girl/woman? When are we as women going to stop trying to inflict shame on each other by using sexist words to blanket an entire section of the female gender just because they have a different belief system? My thoughts on purity rings are an entirely different subject and Jordin is entitled to speak her mind but I will not support her career as long as she continues to use labels that buy into our overwhelmingly misogynistic culture.