If one isn't worrying about making sure basic needs are met, life is easier. I'm not saying your stresses aren't real, I'm just saying it's easier when you don't have to worry about food, rent, gas to get to work, and making sure that bills are going to be paid.

Yall have it right on target. On campus, i'll see bleached blonde sorority girls in shortie shorts and full faces of make up and think, "What a hooker." But then, that's just me being judgmental of another person for no good reason what-so-ever. I've become friends with some of those girls and it's made me realize…

"Why is this the 'new feminism' and not what it looks like: the old objectification?"
— Ariel Levy (Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture)

I've decided to side-step parts of this thread and instead try to redirect it a little: I remember having an a-ha moment about 5 years ago. I was looking at a picture of Angelina Jolie and thinking "For god's sake that woman needs to eat a sandwich and put on at least 10 pounds before she gets back in front of a…

I think I do understand what you are really trying to say - that the size-zero-as-the-ONLY-ideal concept in this society is unhealthy, unrealistic and is an incredibly narrow definition of beauty.

This is just an aside, but some of our transgendered sisters don't have vaginas...

Some do. I mean, she is real. She actually exists and is a human being who lives and breathes.

It seems like you can do "little" sins without being "a bad Catholic so long as you feel guilty about it.