You've got to be kidding me.
The Roman Catholic Church has been into female bondage for centuries, but now they're advertising it on the website of the Pontifical Council for Culture?
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=cda7f2b79e89b4093f2f6a733&id=ae659902e3&e=860b3ca2fc
This council met on Feb. 4-7 to discuss the problem of women's second-class status in the Church.
Yay, someone noticed.
Boo, the council consists of 31 men.
Discussing women's roles. In 2015--not 1015.
To get the discussion going, these guys posted a document on their website. To jazz up this boring document, they featured on the front page a headless, armless statue of Venus bound in rope.
Porn, basically, to men who have taken a vow of celibacy. It more than spiced up the document.
When challenged, Cardinal Ravasi defended the choice of image, saying it was intended to symbolize the fact that women in the church are still limited in their roles, and this is a problem.
Your Holiness, Sir (or whatever respectful title we are supposed to use): a fully clothed woman with a brain and arms and legs, bound in rope, would have been more appropriate.
Of course, the document's title indicated the direction in which discussion would be allowed to go: "Women's Cultures: Equality and Difference." Women must remain separate but equal in the Roman Catholic Church because they are DIFFERENT.
Yeah, separate but equal worked really well with racial inequality.
It kept the other group in its place, as the Catholic Church continues to try to do with women.
Newsflash, you stupid men: your church will be ordaining women as priests by 2050. Mark my words.
You need us, and you need us as equals.
Thank you to Dr. Joanna Dixon, professor emeritus of New Testament Studies, for calling this to my attention.
Thank you to Soline Humbert, writing in The Irish Times on Feb. 17, for analyzing the significance of this male clerical blunder.
The Roman Catholic Church has been into female bondage for centuries, but now they're advertising it on the website of the Pontifical Council for Culture?
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=cda7f2b79e89b4093f2f6a733&id=ae659902e3&e=860b3ca2fc
This council met on Feb. 4-7 to discuss the problem of women's second-class status in the Church.
Yay, someone noticed.
Boo, the council consists of 31 men.
Discussing women's roles. In 2015--not 1015.
To get the discussion going, these guys posted a document on their website. To jazz up this boring document, they featured on the front page a headless, armless statue of Venus bound in rope.
Porn, basically, to men who have taken a vow of celibacy. It more than spiced up the document.
When challenged, Cardinal Ravasi defended the choice of image, saying it was intended to symbolize the fact that women in the church are still limited in their roles, and this is a problem.
Your Holiness, Sir (or whatever respectful title we are supposed to use): a fully clothed woman with a brain and arms and legs, bound in rope, would have been more appropriate.
Of course, the document's title indicated the direction in which discussion would be allowed to go: "Women's Cultures: Equality and Difference." Women must remain separate but equal in the Roman Catholic Church because they are DIFFERENT.
Yeah, separate but equal worked really well with racial inequality.
It kept the other group in its place, as the Catholic Church continues to try to do with women.
Newsflash, you stupid men: your church will be ordaining women as priests by 2050. Mark my words.
You need us, and you need us as equals.
Thank you to Dr. Joanna Dixon, professor emeritus of New Testament Studies, for calling this to my attention.
Thank you to Soline Humbert, writing in The Irish Times on Feb. 17, for analyzing the significance of this male clerical blunder.
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