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This past Valentine’s Day, a nasty surprise greeted me in my mailbox. The True Love Revolution (TLR), a new pro-abstinence student group, had sent cards to all freshman girls reading, “Why wait? Because you’re worth it.” While I don’t actually mind being “alone” this time of year, the group roused me to actually care on Valentine’s Day because of its faulty logic, sexism, and misleadingly innocuous method...
...TLR aims to promote awareness of the abstinent community on campus and to counter what its members see as social pressure to have sex. At 88 members, their Facebook group (not to be confused with the group “I’m Saving Myself for Wild, Passionate, Awkward Honeymoon Sex”) is illustrated by a photograph of a blooming white rose, as chaste and pure as our Puritan founders would have expected their brides...
...very name TLR essentially invalidates the relationships of sexually-active, non-married couples, as if to suggest that abstinence is the only way to find true love. Worse, by targeting women with their cards and didactic message, they perpetuate an age-old values system in which the worth of a young woman is measured by her virginity...
...TLR does have a role on campus—in supporting those who do make the personal choice to abstain and enabling them to better withstand peer pressure. The student community should in turn be respectful of such choices. But the advocates of “true love” overstep the mark when they preaches the value of personal decisions to the everyone on campus...
Amidst the ridicule, I have not yet figured out why so many students have fixated on an unassuming student group. This situation really reflects a larger issue of tolerance. The TLR takes their campaign seriously, so perhaps instead of making fun of their ideas, try suppressing your childish impulse to mock what you disagree with...