This image is so rife with symbolism and counter-symbolism that my brain nearly burst just glimpsing the small lead image jumbled in with the others.

Really tho? With the creepy-ass finger-weave hand-holding?

The equivalent is whatever happened to these men that made them think it is ok to treat their daughters like property and engender religious guilt.

Ah, there's the trusty nope octopus. My good friend for all these sorts of articles.

They are all so white!

umm, the symbolism here....ah caints handle it :

I'm sure they didn't mean for this to be extra creepy because of the oil rig but it gave me some Freudian related "ewwww"s.

And where are the pictures of sons with their moms? Oh, that's right. Religious people don't give two shits if boys sleep with half the girls in the country, but GOD FORBID a girl sleep with ONE boy before marriage, then her value as a human being takes a nose dive.

the first girl looks like a ghost, and her dad looks as if he is holding on to a bittersweet memory. (my apologies, but I will be calling these as I see them.). The second girl knows the other kids will make fun of her because she's wearing a cheap little girl dress, and dad thinks the other kids make fun of her…

Recently my dad made a comment about how annoying it is when gay people "base their entire identities around the fact that they're gay" and I said, "there are worse things to base your entire identity on. You know, like things that persecute or harm others" (see: CHRISTIANITY).

Black dress. Dad looking down in shame. Extra religious symbolism.

My dad would have sent me to some re-education camp. He's a massive hippie and this purity ball shit ain't his bag.

When all the catholic girls in my hometown were getting purity rings, I sort of found myself wanting one. I was (am?) pretty materialistic although in the purity regards I suppose I'm "morally casual". Anyways, my dad bought me a ring and said "this ring should remind you that you're allowed to do whatever you feel…

UGLIEST, CREEPIEST, most inappropriate "family" sentiment ever:

HANDS! HANDS! I feel like I should have been on set, smacking hands with rulers when they got too handsy. Why are they so creepily handsy?

I finally figured out where the "creepy" comes from: it is the pre-prom pose (boys hands on girls hips) that seems like a strange pose for a father-daughter . . . .

As the mother of a daughter, not the sort of poses I'd like to see my husband strike with her either. They are creepy and weird and the photographer lame-ass quote about this being the girls' idea and their dads just want to protect them is an idiot.

Holy hell, this one almost looks like a romance novel cover. Weirdest photoshoot ever. Also, why are there like 5 year old kids being included? What the hell do they have to pledge, I'm sure they don't even have a full understanding of the ideas of virginity and chastity yet.

YUP. They totally look like child brides. AND I'm super skeeved/annoyed that anyone would ask (what looks like) an 8 year old little girl to "pledge her purity" to her father. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE. Talk about letting a kid be a kid.