Catholic Bishops Are Investigating The Girl Scouts

[ljm2002]

14. I heard this on the car radio yesterday...

...and it made me livid. But then again, what else is new with that bunch of old dolts? They're so out of touch it's laughable. Investigating the Girl Scouts ... These guys have recently been lashing out at their own nuns, on the issue of birth control, and now they've turned their attention to the Girl Scouts. I'm getting the feeling they might have issues with ... women in general. Ya think?

The Catholic Bishops are simply irrelevant to the lives of women. They sit on their perches issuing proclamations about how the rest of us should behave, even after their own organization has been exposed for systematically covering up child rape, to the point where you have to ask was it being actively condoned? They treat the women in their organization as second-class citizens who must bow to their superior-by-definition masculine authority. Then they act like they have the right to dictate everything about women's lives to the rest of us, all the while believing themselves to be above the law.

It's just raw misogyny on display here. These guys do not seem able to handle the complexities inherent in real life, it feels too out of control for them. But they keep trying to control it, trying to put human experience into little boxes, while denying the reality of women's lives. Now they've moved on to blaming women for the ills of the world. It's very medieval thinking -- personally, I find it laughable. These are a bunch of scared little boys who couldn't handle having real women in their own lives so they retreated into the protective orbit of the Catholic Church, where they could be protected from the (ooh, so scary!) w o m e n.

Pffft.