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I read this comment as saying:

1. Virginity isn't special, so there's no need to "save" it for someone special.
2. The first person you have sex with doesn't need to be anyone special. Holding out for some kind of perfect dude is impractical, because if you're messing around with people your age, news flash, most young men are losers on the broader social scale. Being cool for a high schooler doesn't mean much.
3. Go ahead and fuck the dude with a cheap car and small dick. That's not going to hold you back in the future, and chances are, your standards for partners will change over time.
4. You can be anything. Overthrow the government.

It seems that this comment section focuses a bit too much on the less important parts of the message, and don't appreciate the context.

The concept of virginity, particularly the idea that a woman's sexual history somehow determines her worth, was heavily shaped by patriarchal societies that used women's sexuality as a means of controlling inheritance, marriage, and political power.

The idea that an individual somehow becomes less of a person simply because she has had sex is absurd. A woman's value does not diminish because someone has given her a label or because she has engaged in a perfectly ordinary human act.

And then there is the glaring double standard. The man who had sex with her is often treated as some kind of hero, while she is supposedly diminished by the exact same act. He gets the bragging rights and the high fives; she gets judged for it.

So apparently a man's virginity is irrelevant, but a woman's is supposed to be sacred. Not the person, mind you. The vagina.

What a load of crap.

I'm all for any memes that end the way this one does

The first time you try anything new, you are going to be shit at it. Why the obsession with what’s more likely than not going to be some awkward fumbling?

It’s just so weird that this is considered a pivotal event that somehow marks you. Changes something about you like a magic enchantment getting broken.

But the VTEC!

So many bad takes in this thread. Here’s mine:

You might not get the chance. I learned about virginity from the foul mouthed children on my school bus years before any adult thought it was time for proper sex education.

OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT!!!!!!

ITT
"Hey! No fair! I was a baby-dicked boy in a Honda Civic!"

Yes, that was the point. To dress down hypermasculinity to reveal the real person you will be fucking, and then say "look honey, this dick can't harm you existentially like all the messaging you ever received, threatened it would. It's mostly harmless on its own. Go have fun."

If you don't like that the hypothetical image of the boy had to be declawed before the girl felt safe, help fix it.

Dodged the misogyny but fell right into the carbrain.