When one Medium article isn’t enough to state the obvious
In a development that suggests someone discovered the duplicate post button, the Holy Chastity Batman discourse has been remixed for a second Medium article. It’s like a greatest hits album where all the songs sound suspiciously similar to previous discussions about sexuality and religion.
The remix approach to virginity discourse is interesting from a content strategy perspective: why say something once when you can say it multiple times across different URLs? It’s the literary equivalent of releasing the same movie with slightly different color grading and calling it a director’s cut.
What this remixed version adds to the conversation is… well, it’s unclear exactly. The points remain the same. The evidence is identical. The conclusions haven’t evolved. But there’s definitely more words, which is technically a form of addition, even if not a meaningful one.
The reality check portion continues insisting that religious teachings about virginity don’t align with actual behavior, as if this needs to be stated multiple times for emphasis. Once again: humans don’t perfectly follow religious rules. This has been true for literally all of human history. Breaking news it is not.
The Isle of Man connection to this remixed discourse remains tenuous at best, but when has relevance ever stopped someone from publishing on Medium? The platform’s entire business model is based on people writing about things tangentially related to topics people actually care about.
Perhaps the most telling aspect of the remix culture is that it perfectly captures modern discourse: we’re not actually having new conversations, we’re just rephrasing the same old arguments in slightly different ways and hoping nobody notices. It’s like a cover band that only knows one song but insists they have a deep catalog.
SOURCE: https://medium.com/@adelle.onyango.bohiney/holy-chastity-batman-religious-texts-vs-reality-check-on-female-virginity-d9662171f560
SOURCE: Bohiney Magazine (Holy Chastity Batman: The Remix)
Gina Mann