The girls encountered all kinds of slut shaming and knuckle slaps with a ruler, boys were smacked in the back of the head and all of us were guilt tripped into oblivion. I still have the guilty conscience about every.damn.thing... but at least I am not foisting the same fate on my kiddo!

16 years of Catholic school here. Concur. They smacked the boys around and pretty much left the girls out of the physical stuff. Girls received more creative kinds of “discipline” such as making us put chewing gum in our hair etc. I look back on some of my experiences in Catholic school during the 80s and I’m just…

The nuns were trying to use the rules of squatters rights? This whole thing is weird and intriguingly complicated.

The nuns never owned the convent so their “selling” it is ridiculous. This sort of property is crazy expensive to maintain, that money is far better spent on proper assisted living situations for the remaining sisters.

I’m guessing it has to do with where the money is going. 14.5m to the Archdiocese, vs. 15.5m to the Nuns. With the latter, my guess is that they’d fund their new quarters; the former...rely on handouts from the Archdiocese with whom they are clearly on bad footing.

It’s a battle between the notoriously misogynistic, predator-shielding Catholic church and their slut-shaming morals. And Katy Perry. I’m learning that nuns can be both marginalized and assholes. 🤷🏾‍♀️

They did. They’re full of shit and trying to get the most money they can out of the deal but keep saying they changed their mind because Katy is a Whore, basically.

Our Sisters were supposed to live for the rest of our lives at our beloved Convent. But, against our will, the Archdiocese removed us to “monetize” our property. 

I did a study abroad in Rio in college back in the 90s and took a really awesome class on syncretic religions. I wonder if I read her book?

Read the book. Better than the movie.

That is excellent! Is there a place where I can buy and read your mother’s work? I am very interested!

I remember that episode of Party of Five! We were on vacation in Florida at my extremely conservative grandmother’s condo, and my sister and I COULD NOT MISS IT (it’s easy to forget what a tragedy missing an episode of your favorite show used to be, nowadays). We were watching it while keeping one eye on the door,…

My favorite trope - hit by a bus that viewers can’t see because of the camera position, but the person in question absolutely could have. :P

Meanwhile in the 80s those Golden Girls were buying condoms in bulk.

When I confessed my sexual harassment story to a guy I used to work with, his response was “I always felt something was off about that guy and I could never figure out what it was. I figured I was being crazy, turned out he was sexually harassing a bunch of women in the office.” Sometimes you get a vibe and you don’t…

Oh definitely. Female characters were always enduring every single bad thing that could happen if she has premarital sex whereas the guys were either pushing for sex before or a passive character after the fact.

I’m an old (was an adult during the 80's. This was the very accepted, family-friendly norm to present the sexuality of a young woman on TV. She was a good girl (aka a virgin) being seduced by the dark side. Or she did a bad thing (had sex) and had a very bad outcome (got pregnant). Then she contemplates an abortion…

I’m generally pretty eyerolly about karma and energy and that kind of shit, but this is absolutely relatable to me. It’s like meeting a friend’s new boyfriend, feeling vaguely disquieted but having absolutely no specific reason to speak ill of him...and then come to find out years later that he was an abusive,…

Looking back on it, you can see the red flag in Cosby’s hyper-fixation on virginity. For example, when Denise elopes and comes home, Cliff asks his new son-in-law if his daughter was a virgin on their wedding night. When the SIL confirmed she was, Cliff has this creepy grin on his face. (I think it was meant to be…

Off topic but I was just thinking about James Avery and how great a father figure he was for us teens of color. To all accounts he was equally great off set. I guess I just want to say screw Bill Cosby. Uncle Phil should get more love than he does.