Funny, I don't hear you making the same argument as to why men should keep their virginity.
That's because a lot of people find men who use women just for sexual pleasure to be disgusting(including myself)--same with the teen boys who enjoy 'cherry picking' young girl's virginities. Traditionally, boys were supposed to be raised into responsible young men capable of owning up to his actions are MARRYING a girl if he wanted to sleep with her. Funny how all that's gone down the chute now and people are complaining about men not being 'manly enough'.
In any case, why is a woman's virginity important? As a woman who has lost hers, I can assure you that I didn't become a different person when I lost it. Does having sex reduce a woman's value? If so, to who? Does it reduce her value to herself? If so, how? Does it reduce her value to her husband? Isn't that suggesting that a woman who is not a virgin when she gets married is "used merchandise"? That's rather degrading of women, isn't it? Can you tell me why, exactly, a woman's virginity is important?
It goes both ways. And for one, women are impacted a lot differently than men by sex. Men are naturally a lot more sexually driven, but with most women, sex has a lot more to do with emotions. To the point where apparently it's a scientific fact that women enjoy sex more if it's with someone, they're emotionally involved with. Now, what's the danger here? Emotions as a whole are unreliable. Emotions don't think the cute summer crush you have is going to be gone by college, or that your 'first love' is more often than not the 'first step in a long line of trial and error'. I also didn't call anyone 'used merchandise' or say that anyone loses value just because they had sex. I pointed it out because you can often tell a lot about a person based on how they treat sex. Most people don't stop to think 'maybe my future spouse would want me to save myself for him/her'. They think 'oh, well he/she should just be fine with it 'cuz they love me'. Selfish much?
Misogyny is the problem here. It's the idea that men are superior to women that has lead to women being viewed as "rewards" for men in movies - when was the last time you saw a movie where the woman saved the day and a hot young man threw himself at her so she could satisfy her sexual urges as a reward for saving everyone? Yet I can show you countless examples of male heroes getting the woman at the end of movies.
I'm assuming you live under a rock, because even back in the old days where women were more commonly the 'reward' in a movie, I recall the man at least being a gentleman and taking the time to protect her and appreciate her. Furthermore, I would like to point out how many women have ridiculous standards for men--but when they're held to the same standards themselves(such as romantic discrimination about weight) they cry 'MISOGYNY!!!'. I also don't want to tell you about the long-standing tradition of women writing books and novels that create such 'perfect men'(who, by the way, are almost always conventionally attractive men that are willing to drop everything and possibly die for some girl they barely know)that women start to become dissatisfied with their own husbands much in the same way otakus become dissatisfied with real women because of anime. Oh yeah...and let's not forget about all of the young and adult women that fetishize gay men and reduce celebrities to nothing but pieces of meat. Why don't you compare the male/female ratio of lemon fanfics based on real-life celebrity men?
As for your comment about YouTube, your political displeasure does not mean that it's because of gender.
Sorry, I forgot to state that I have a strong bias against the mainstream women in power.
And why do you think an increase in sexual promiscuity should lead to reduced depression?
I didn't say it would. I pointed out that even though we achieved what we wanted(which was originally the ability to have sex outside of marriage and divorce be socially acceptable)things have been worse, not better.
Great for those 20 women. I appreciate what they've done for our country--but 20 women(not all of which were even in ground combat)are not going to make me think that the physically weaker gender should be on the battlefield. Air force? Sure. Engineer? Fine. Medic? Awesome. But not ground combat.