Woman Begs World to Shield Her 4 Catholic Sons From Legging-Clad Butts

[trotsky]

In other religion news, we are reminded that it's often about control and keeping women in their place...

https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/notre-dame-mother-leggings-maryann-white-letter.html

In a letter to the editor published in the University of Notre Dame’s student newspaper, The Observer, this week, one mother pleaded for the women of the world, and of the Notre Dame campus more specifically, to please, please, wear looser pants. “I’m just a Catholic mother of four sons with a problem that only girls can solve,” Maryann White wrote. “Leggings.”

White’s four boys were recently exposed to the troubling image of clothed female butts during Mass at the Basilica on the Notre Dame campus, she explained. A group of young women — three? sixty? who’s to say — “all clad in clingy Spandex and short tops” sat in front of White and her brood, and some of them, “truly looked as though the leggings had been painted on them.” [*sign of the cross*]

I was ashamed for the young women at Mass. I thought of all the other men around and behind us who couldn’t help but see their behinds. My sons know better than to ogle a woman’s body — certainly when I’m around (and hopefully, also when I’m not). They didn’t stare, and they didn’t comment afterwards. But you couldn’t help but see those blackly naked rear ends. I didn’t want to see them — but they were unavoidable. How much more difficult for young guys to ignore them.

...The letter, predictably, prompted a wave of backlash. The Notre Dame student group Irish 4 Reproductive Health organized a Leggings Pride Day, writing on the event’s Facebook page that “while well-intentioned, White’s viewpoint perpetuates a narrative central to to rape culture in implying that womxn and girls are responsible for the actions and reactions of others.”

[Major Nikon]

1. What would we do without organized religion keeping women in their place?

Before you know it they will want to start having recreational sex and working outside the home.

[trotsky]

2. Yeah but somebody made a movie that says Jesus had 2 female disciples.

So Christianity is totally not misogynist and you should stop saying that.

[Major Nikon]

4. Then there's the instruction manual which commands women to be subservient to men

But when folks actually follow the instruction manual we should stop talking about that too because some anonymous person on the interwebs metaphored that shit right out.

[trotsky]

6. And if I should decide to ask whatabout sexist atheists...

then that is totally not whataboutism because everyone should trust simplicable.com over some totally unreliable site like the Merriam Webster dictionary and besides I didn't *intend* to change the subject away from sexism in religion anyway, so there.

[Major Nikon]

8. Well yeah, there's that

As if this is the first time someone has come to the Religion group to piss on everyone's shoes and tell them it's raining.

[Funtatlaguy]

3. "Big butts trigger my overly horny boys who get stiffies in church".

[SHRED]

5. The American Taliban

[trotsky]

7. Those folks: "Women need to cover up, homosexuality is evil, and abortion should be illegal."

Also those folks: "Muslims want everyone to live according to the dictates of their religion!"

[Major Nikon]

10. Doublethink seems to be a defining feature for many religionists

Too busy pointing fingers at others to be bothered with looking inward.

[delisen]

9. We all must learn self-control.

[Cartoonist]

11. The world is a scary place

I didn’t want to see them — but they were unavoidable.

I am reminded of a comment made by a homophobe I knew. He was complaining about the televised SF Pride parade. He described his horror at seeing a man's naked butt.

"It was like being shot between the eyes! "

[Major Nikon]

12. Hate the sin, love the sinner

I hear this all the time from religionists as an answer to their obvious homophobia after their actions defy those words.

[MineralMan]

14. Shot between the eyes? Well, it must have been simile to that.

Although, I have to wonder how he knows what being shot between the eyes is actually like...

It's like someone saying, "This beer tastes like horse piss." Which calls for the question, "Really? You've tasted horse piss? How odd."

[MineralMan]

13. Won't somebody do something? What is the world coming to?

When will they make an end?

Lady, whatever you do, don't learn how to look at your sons' web browsing histories. I beg you!

[Pope George Ringo II]

22. One gathers the leggings have made too many ends too clear.

If I understand her complaint correctly.

[MineralMan]

23. Indeed. I guarantee that I will never be seen in leggings.

It would frighten little children, no doubt.

[Blue Owl]

15. Butt, her editorials!

[Lordquinton]

16. ...

[Mariana]

17. According to the Bible

Jesus was aware of this kind of problem, and he gave instructions on how to deal with it.

"And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire." Matthew 18 : 9

[marylandblue]

18. Since the poor young men can still see out of the other eye

plucking one out won't solve the problem, so they might as well keep both and enjoy the scenery on the ride down.

[Mariana]

19. I'd think the same instructions apply when one eye is already gone.

After all, Jesus didn't go on to say, " ... unless you already have only one eye, in which case you are exempt."

[marylandblue]

20. Probably just a copyist error. I'll pencil that in.

[Ron Obvious]

21. Presumably, she believes those sons guilty of fornication merely for thinking of it.

That seems to be standard Catholic doctrine.

Seems a silly way to go through life. I'd have spent virtually every waking hour in the confession booth back during the days of my teenage priapism. Glad I didn't grow up Catholic.