It’s been a whirlwind five-ish months. I finally started taking medication for my anxiety. As a result, I am leaving the house and entertaining far more often. I can’t bring myself to write much of anything when my life is going well. Writing is catharsis. With an awesome RN prescribing for me, and an equally fabulous therapist, I don’t find myself needing to purge my unsettling humanoid emotions via the Internets.
So, what’s been happening lately? Well, I got married on May 24th.
90% of the time, when reading it, I’m thinking about:
So somehow, in my screwed up brain, the FLDS church relates to a sweet story about a couple of people that try to cheat on each other but fail. I’m sure I can make the connection, but I’m only on my second beer.
(Apologies to Carolyn Jessop. The book is really good so far.)
Okay, I am taking a break from Jezebel. I pretty much stopped commenting a few months ago, and now I think I’m just done for awhile. I sent the comment mod this drawn out email about how it seems like the only group it’s still okay to make horrible generalizations about is Catholics. I didn’t even hear back. Every day it seems like there’s another post with comments I find severely offensive that don’t get moderated at all. The worst part about all of this is I actually had to defend the Church despite the fact that I have not been okay with the Church since 1996.
Okay, I’m just going to post what I wrote, because I don’t feel like actually talking about it.
I really don’t want to come off as whining or unreasonable, but I am really disheartened by the blatant anti-Catholic sentiment in the comments lately. I know you’re making the effort, but its getting to the point where I just cannot read Jezebel anymore. It’s not an issue of people politely disagreeing with Church doctrine — I fully respect that — but it seems like every three days there’s at least one conversation that degrades from constructive discussion to flat-out hate. It’s not even comments like, “oh, this archdiocese is doing a really boneheaded thing.” It’s like, “oh those Catholics, denying people basic human rights and raping young boys again.” This is basically like saying, “Another suicide bomber? Oh those crazy Muslims!” And honestly, I don’t think a comment like that would fly on Jezebel. So why is Catholic hate totally okay?
The Church has long been concerned with social justice, and I think it’s unfair to make blanket statements against an entire religion and group of worshipers just because some of their leaders are out-of-touch. Just because something is happening in Brazil does not mean that all Catholics everywhere stand behind what one Cardinal says.
So yeah, saying something like, “SHUT THE FUCK UP CHURCH JUST GO AWAY” “Hey Catholicism, as far as your talk of murderers goes; it takes one to know one.” or calling the Church “evil corporation whose chief goal is self preservation and making money” …is pretty disgusting to me. Even as an ex-Catholic. Especially when these statements come from people who don’t even know what an Archdiocese is. I don’t tell other religious groups to go fuck themselves; why can’t the religion that I was raised in get the same respect?
