Why Are Women Expected to be the Gatekeepers of Virginity?

Beets .....

It beets some gardens we could have walked through.

Actually I like beets made sweet and sour...those taste pretty good AND they are loaded with iron that keeps you from going anemic. Puts color in your cheeks...and on your tongue.

Borsht can be good too...I'm not a fan of the beet puree one as much as the one with lots of goose or duck. (There are several variants)

So don't be dissing the Borsht.

I think we'd all learn to like beets if they were prepared by someone with your talent. Very hard to a cook worth their salt, so to speak. Restaurant food is horrible, most of the food prepared today is straight out of a box.

beets or beetroot...are they the same?

I have no idea why beetroot is the staple filling in a McDonalds kiwiburger (not mde of actual kiwis..or kiwifruit)

I'm going to have to dock you -3 points for that bad of a pun.

And it's only because I couldn't come up with a better one.

Oh puhleeze there @cinder .....give us some love!

You know you want a plate full of beets.

This is why I find your posts so hard to answer.

With every reply, you try to tell me how my own life has gone because you say that people don't act in the manner I'm describing (only because you haven't experienced it,) thereby denying my own experiences, and then try to tell me what I should do, as you just did above: "the question you asked on here SHOULD HAVE BEEN..."

But yet you want everyone and their mother to listen to every grievance you've ever had regarding your own experiences.

You hint that mine aren't real, but yet want me to listen to every word of yours. And then you tell me I don't know anything about what men go through, and what I should be asking.

The question I wrote in this post is exactly the question I wanted to write. I had no interest in writing about what you are saying I should have asked. I've seen a zillion threads about why people need to remain virgins before marriage, but I hadn't seen a thread that asked about the influences of society putting more pressure on women to do so with that added expectation that their influence should rub off on their dates.

Now of course it can go both ways, and as someone pointed out, I realize that women are becoming more aggressive. But I see this as just another integral part of the discussion: social attitudes about women's sexuality have changed, and so this thread is about exploring some of the impact of those changes.

Whatever question you feel should have been asked, why wouldn't you start your own thread about it, rather than trying to say what I should have asked in mine?

I do understand that this is something to be expected whenever one writes a thread -- there will always be someone who tries to tell you what you should have done differently -- it just comes with the territory.

But what I don't understand is that 99.9% of the time, the person won't just write their own thread themselves. Why not?

If you want to write your own question about why men and women should remain virgins before marriage (as if no one in the audience is aware of that,) then why aren't you?

As I said, I've seen dozens and dozens of discussions about that subject.

It's certainly not that it isn't something important that needs to be talked about (again, and again, and again) -- it's just that I wanted to try something different, and ask about things I've never seen anyone here ask.

It beets some gardens we could have walked through.

beets or beetroot...are they the same?

I have no idea why beetroot is the staple filling in a McDonalds kiwiburger (not mde of actual kiwis..or kiwifruit)

2. Christians Are Afraid to Confront Bad Preaching About Female Purity, Especially at Youth Group

3. There’s a Double Standard Because Common Christian Dating Advice Gives All the Power to Men When Initiating a Relationship

4. Because Christian Women Are Not Correcting Their Brothers Who Have a Double Standard

5. Because Men Who Do Not Have a Double-Standard Are Not Holding Their Brothers Accountable Who Do Have a Double-Standard

source as above

Not sure what this has to do with beets.