Rapper T.I. was a guest earlier this week on the "Ladies Like Us" podcast that features hosts Nazanin Mandi and Nadia Moham. He admitted to them that he accompanies his now 18 year old daughter to the gynecologist every year to have them check that her hymen is still intact....in other words that she is still a virgin. What prompted this comment by T.I? The ladies of the podcast asked T.I. if he's had the "sex talk" with his daughters and how he handles them getting older. He followed up that question saying: "Not only have we had the conversation. We have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen," T.I. said. "Yes, I go with her."
Is this helicopter parenting to the extreme? Or is this psycho-parenting?
As a parent or more specifically as a father would you go to the gynecologist with your daughter? We're not talking about driving her to the doctor or waiting in the waiting room, we're talking about talking specifically to her doctor to make sure she still has her hymen intact? Is that a step too far? I think it's suffocating and to be honest, creepy. I cannot imagine MY FATHER speaking to my gynecologist about my personal feminine health. That's uncomfortable and I think a little obsessive on T.I.'s part. Also what's up with the mother? Why can't she step in and be like listen T.I. let me handle this as a mother/daughter thing, relax. If I were T.I's 18 year old I'd say "Okay, Boomer."
-Producer Lightning