WHAT

[eruthros]

So there I am reading an article about Catholic priests and sexual violence against young African and Asian nuns and then there is this:

In Africa, however, where Catholic priests often have open heterosexual contact, the church's ranks are hefty with converts only a few generations removed from the illiterate, poor, uneducated innocents that missionaries first discovered living in tribal communities. Totally unaware of concepts like gender equity or criminal punishment for sexual assault, many of those locals came to a church that offered food, medical care and education in exchange for religious conversion.

WHAT? I mean, WHAT? I mean, OH MY GOD, SERIOUSLY?

Comments

[isagel]

Let me echo your WHAT and raise you a THE FUCK?!

Does this person live in a Dickens novel?

I feel the urge to scrub my mind clean after reading that.

via network

[softestbullet]

I feel the urge to scrub my mind clean after reading that.

THIS. AAAAHHHHHH. EW EW EW.

Re: via network

[eruthros]

It's just an awful article, and apparently it's by a regular contributor to salon!

[eruthros]

I feel the urge to scrub my mind clean after reading that.

omg me too.

Also, a few paragraphs after that, the author blamed sexual assault on the rule of celibacy rather than on institutional power and violence. And also doesn't seem to talk to any specific women, or talk about any specific cases -- it's all "African women are..." All in all, awful.