Mary Daly, Pioneering Feminist Who Tussled With BC, Dies at 81

Boston Globe ^ | January 5, 2010 | Bryan Marquard

[the invisib1e hand]

Odds she drove a forest-green Subaru?

[the invisib1e hand]

Heaven would be hell for this crone because she would find men there.

That creature, in that state, would certainly turn heaven into hell for the men there.

[LostInBayport]

2:1

[SuziQ]

I sure hope she repented before she died, or she's gonna have a LOT to answer for. She caused great confusion in the Church by virtue of the education she passed on to young Catholics who came through her classrooms.

Those young people then fanned out into parishes throughout the country, confusing others along the way.

[AliVeritas]

I have to judge... but hell for a thousand Alex.

[no dems]

Awww....she died? Boo freakin’ hoo.

[AliVeritas]

Ooh, come look at all the fervent believers vouching for Mary Daly.

(Saints preserve us)

[AliVeritas]

As Sister (now Saint), Faustina said, even the devil can put on robes of humility, but never the robe of obedience.

[AliVeritas]

Indeed.

[worst-case scenario]

We agree - that particular joke of yours was too “subtle” for me, as well as for the other posters who thought you were making a comment musing about the woman’s eternal fate.

[NYer]

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[isom35]

that’s a woman? show me the birth certificate!

[Ciexyz]

bump with no comment

[magisterium]

Actually, she'd probably insist that they be removed. She went toe-to-toe with BC for years in her absolute refusal to allow men to enroll in her courses. Boston College dithered with her on this for quite a while, but finally took some action when several male students filed a discrimination lawsuit. She abandoned her classes altogether at that point, which eventually led to her tenure being stripped away.

She was a highly disturbed woman who considered men in general to be utterly valueless, and shrieked her message along these lines for decades in classes, as well as in the media. I have no idea what prompted her anti-male hatreds, but anyone claiming - as a foundational justification for theological fulminations against men in general and God in particular - that 9,000,000 women were burned as witches in the Middle Ages clearly must have had a screw or two loose.

On the basis that she had to have been some sort of (self-inflicted) tortured soul, I hope that God has mercy on her. She sure had none on herself, from what those of us in the Boston area could see all these years.

[the invisib1e hand]

I have no idea what prompted her anti-male hatreds,

he father was probably pussy-whipped.

She sure had none on herself,

Nor on those who sat under her influence, from what I gather.

She sounds and looks like the prototypical massachusetts intellectual lesbian.

God, what a waste the 60's were.