Virginity tests

[grimbletart]

www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/21/virginity-tests-female-students-indonesia

FFS. Misogyny and double standards can be taken as read in cases like these - they are the attributes of the caveman - but what has got to me is how fucking stupid this man is. He has zero biological and physiological knowledge and clearly, an IQ smaller than his shoe size.

For God's sake he shouldn't be running education, he should be in kindergarten, the ignorant twat.

www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/21/virginity-tests-female-students-indonesia

That is appalling and ridiculous. However, I am also pretty cross that the Guardian reported the whole thing as if an 'intact hymen' is a totally valid medical term to describe the anatomy of a woman who hasn't had sex. Yeah, right.

Dear God!!

Yep the whole hymen as a barrier thing is all a bit of a myth I think. So not sure the sexual assaulters doctors would even test for this. How is this test for their own good? How is it going to give them the right to be free of prostitution? Just another fucking excuse to oppress women in a traumatic and invasive manner.

yes, well, what do you expect in places like that run by people like that?

Women to be treated as human being with feelings and all? These women don't have a choice about where they live. Saying well "what do you expect" is very dissmissive of their reality.

These women clearly expect more and so should we. Otherwise nothing will change.

Why are they doing these tests?? like before marriage or something?

It says why in the article.

It's just exceptionally stupid and horrible.

How utterly ridiculous, and I'm very surprised and annoyed that the Guardian didn't include some kind of quote from a doctor to confirm that the whole unbroken hymen concept is wrong anyway as it can be broken during exersise or just as a normal thing that happens as you grow up

So having an intact hymen or not affects a girl's ability to study how exactly?

At the end of the piece #' in the shariah-law province of Aceh, women have been ordered to sit side-saddle on motorbikes in order to better obscure the "curves of a woman's body".' Well never mind that she's more likely to fall off, just so long as men are protected from her provocative curves.

I thought that the whole hymen thing was a myth. So how is he planning to do this?

Chilling.

Apart from anything else I don't understand the mentality of preserving women's modesty / chastity etc by forcing them to expose their vaginas to strangers.

Do these men in power really want their own teenage daughters treated like this?

Do these men in power really want their own teenage daughters treated like this?

Probably. In their mistaken and ignorant view, it's ensuring the integrity of their property isn't it?

i would imagine so.
In fact their own daughters better have an intact hymen. Their daughters aren't whores, you know.