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.

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[softestbullet]

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

THIS. AAAAHHHHHH. EW EW EW.

[such_heights]

Oh, EW. >:(

[eisen]

OH MY GOD WHATEVER THE FUCKING WHAT

That makes me feel like a horrible person just for reading that sentence, ew.

[toft]

Agh! Agh agh! Agh!

[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.

[eruthros]

It is such a bad article after that, too. Like, nobody could claim that this is one "little slip" that the editor didn't notice. It's awful and racist and sexist and ewwwwwwww.

[eruthros]

I don't even KNOW, apparently the author is a regular contributor over at salon!

[eruthros]

So much EW.

Re: via network

[eruthros]

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

[theleaveswant]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME that is so fucking racist and patrician and snotty and colonial and GRRR ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENT SMASH!

[nixwilliams]

o________________O;;;

i think i actually pulled that face.

[sofiaviolet]

D: OH HELL NO