Do you know what a “tell” is? This is a tell:

Having my intelligence, faith and moral agency insulted by someone painfully obviously raised in some angry consumerist-oriented fundy religion is about as meaningful as having someone regularly featured on People of Walmart insult my street style.

You’re the ignorant one, dear, trying desperately to insult people you don’t understand. Bottom line: if you spit on my face in the street, I’d put your ass down. Stop trying to shame the viciously evil. We’re tougher than you.

My parents subscribed to the National Catholic Reporter back in the 80s, so I’ve been on this for a very long time. I thought the movie Spotlight did an amazing job with the issue, so much better than I expected, honestly, of covering the assorted factors and incentives that contributed to this being the status quo…

Catholics are consistently the population most ignorant about all religious beliefs,

I’m not averse to recognizing the assorted flaws, systemic and individual, of the Catholic hierarchy, but the “organized crime syndicate” frame is both absurd and unhelpful. Big institutions cover up dirt. People don’t want to believe that the seemingly nice man is a child molester. Everyone convinces themselves that…

You’re doing an amazing job of grafting liberal talking points onto a Whore of Babylon speech, but sounding like an unhinged bigot doesn’t hurt Catholic feelings as much as it gets Bill Donohue hard. Are you proud of yourself for being responsible for this man’s erection?

I’ve never seen the claim that they have a lower rate of molestation than those other positions, but it’s pretty well established that they don’t have a higher rate of molestation than the general male population. This article does a good job of going over the numbers and some of the perception issues at play that…

should see its followers spit on in the streets

as anything other than attenuated bureaucratic jargon is beyond me.

Have you considered the possibility that your girlfriend raped you repeatedly in your sleep not because of your 9 inch cock, but because of your unerring sense of prosody?

I understand that’s the hope, I just don’t think it would work that way.

I guarantee Judge Persky was thinking about protecting pretty boy from being raped in prison.

I would bet all my worldly possessions that the judge gave more thought to protecting the defendant from being raped in prison than he did to protecting women from the defendant.

Casey v. Planned Parenthood was basically a roadmap to rolling back women’s reproductive rights. So, yes. Although there was a high degree of nervousness that it would be the case that overturned Roe v. Wade, so the initial wave of relief when it didn’t, mitigated the sense of alarm.

I understand the desire to get people to stop treating this violence like background noise. But I’m worried that constant promotion of incidents like these don’t make society more likely to deal with the problems, they just depress the shit out of women.

Throuple with DLB and Tom Daley.

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