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This thing is pretty much the handbook: http://www.amazon.com/Catechism-Cath… Most public libraries have a copy. The index is pretty good—it's numbered by paragraph.

It is dependent of the tribes to a large extent (i.e. I know someone who is full tribe X and her husband is full tribe Q—their kids can legally only be enrolled in one tribe, so they had to pick; I know another person who 1/4 tribe X—she gets an enrollment card, her children do not, partially because of the…

I was disturbed by this trailer when I saw it in the theatre, especially after seeing the film Reel Injun which includes Johnny Depp acting alongside Native actors in Dead Man (movie that included Native actors speaking Native languages)! In the trailer, it looked like they got away from straight-up redface by using…

Much of this is shit my husband does—why is this sex specific? This is the biggest one: "Do you want some boiled eggs." Him: "No. I'm full." [I come back with two boiled eggs with pepper and red chili on them] Him: "Oh, well, I didn't know they would be so yummy looking."

I think this is the post I read last year—had to hunt it down. It's really quite good. I'm not longer going to church, but I really respect what this woman has to say.

Yes—Therese of Lisieux. The father wanted to be a priest and a mother wanted to be a nun, but it didn't work out so they got married instead. He didn't want to have sex, so the wife had to talk him into it. They were presented to us as only have sex out of a duty to procreate.

I know, seriously. Wasn't there an Eric Idle movie that used this premise? Or something close to it?

They still get to get married in the RCC. Something about still being open to the possibility. Still, fun fact: Thomas More may have never slept with his 2nd wife since she was post-menopausal.

I didn't do the Catholic marriage prep pre-cana thing (I'm glad I didn't in retrospect), but my friends did. They were told, "You are part of God's baby-making army."

I'm not being quibbly here—I just wonder if something I was taught was super-outdated (keep in mind I was raised in a very conservative lets-all-go-to-Latin-mass-and-head-back-the-16th-century sort of church). Weren't St. Theresa's parents beatified for only ever having sex to produce babies? I remember reading about…

Last year during mother's day, I read an article on a Catholic website about the pain many women endure during the mother's day blessing during mass. With the exception of the comments section, which included many, "What, so the rest of us have to care about the feelings of others?" type comments, the article was…

Just when I thought I was DONE playing on the internet for the day...

I would eat both of those. Straight from the container.

Nope. They actually DO say that the HoH has to be male (male as "spiritual leader of the house" and whatnot) and the women are NOT able to take away consent immediately before or during the punishment. There are no safe words. From what little I know about this, if a woman says she wants to stop, the HoH has to sit…

They tolerate it because it has been linked to a) their ability to belong to a community, which may be their only social outlet, b) their relationship with God, and c) keeping their marriages together (a failed marriage still means being cut-off from support in many denominations). There is also probably a martyr…

Just wondering: what denominations is this associated with? I am assuming it is generally the non-denominational Evangelical churches, but I could be wrong. The most disturbing part of this for me is that I can see where this mentality comes from and how women fall into the trap of thinking that they need to endure…

Here is the thing (at least according to the piece XOjane wrote about this): the woman CANNOT withdraw consent direct before or during the punishment.

The NIH has three classes of obesity (I Low Risk, II Moderate Risk, & III High Risk). They are based on the flawed BMI scale rather than on a body fat percentage, though.

In one of the most infuriating conversations I've ever had with some moron from my health insurance company, the representative tried to justify not covering an x-ray of my jaw by saying that my extremely painful jaw condition is, "like obesity." It made zero sense at the time, and in light of this it makes even less…