Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 04/12/2010 9:23:08 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
When I was in Saudi Arabia, I had tea and sweets with a group of educated and sophisticated young professional women.
I asked why they were not more upset about living in a country where women’s rights were strangled, an inbred and autocratic state more like an archaic men’s club than a modern nation. They told me, somewhat defensively, that the kingdom was moving at its own pace, glacial as that seemed to outsiders.
How could such spirited women, smart and successful on every other level, acquiesce in their own subordination?
I was puzzling over that one when it hit me: As a Catholic woman, I was doing the same thing.
I, too, belonged to an inbred and wealthy men’s club cloistered behind walls and disdaining modernity.
I, too, remained part of an autocratic society that repressed women and ignored their progress in the secular world.
I, too, rationalized as men in dresses allowed our religious kingdom to decay and to cling to outdated misogynistic rituals, blind to the benefits of welcoming women’s brains, talents and hearts into their ancient fraternity.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
keep reading.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
You should have included (MODO alert) in the title. :(
Maureen is in desperate need or prayers.
No thanks. If the Catholic Church is so misogynistic, why is she still affiliated with it?
I would like to tell this idiot writer to call me when Mecca has their own version of “Vatican II” untill then STFU!
Puzzling it over more than a few drinks, apparently.
"Anchorman" reference.
All joking aside, I agree the barf alert was well deserved.
Why would anyone read her drivel? It’s obvious that only a Liberal rag like the NYT would want a nut like her on their payroll, like Walter Duranty and Herbert Matthews.
Why is the dowdy doody girl only concern with “womyn’s rights” in Saudi Arabia and not the religious freedoms of ALL people living in Saudi Arabia?
End the theocratric rule that teaches a supremacist ideology and you will see better rights for ALL.
I do believe that there are rules associated with articles by MODO...
This is a good reason why I am sticking with the Pope. I see the REAL agenda behind the attacks on him.
How does this Catholic-basher get away with claiming, decade after decade, that she’s a “Catholic” of some sort?
Already on it....
Women will truly be shocked how bad things will be when Islam takes over.
I can’t remember the last time a catholic woman was beheaded by a deacon in a soccer stadium for the crime of meeting the eyes of another man.
If Dowd were a man, she would never be writing a column.
You say it, MoDow
Fortunately MoDow kept her thoughts to herself so the priest wouldn’t order the Catholic men to first rape her, then bury her in the ground up to her neck and order a public stoning
and, what IS it with those Catholic morality police with little whips who walk around our streets and hit women who show too much leg or hair or who speak to or smile at a man? sheesh. Most of us have to get our drivers to take us straight back to the women’s quarters in the family compound to out ice on that.
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