Like, it would be one thing, having already accepted that millions and millions of ordinary Republicans are probably fine people who are just doing their best, to then extend your empathy and love and kindness even further than that to the most violent amongst us. But to just skip over the vast middle and head straight for caring about the most disordered and violent people is really a symptom of something.
"We can't credibly frame an Israeli actress's defense of Israel as genocidal sociopathy, so instead we'll just dunk on her professional competence every chance we get."
Most of us who have ever had a personal relationship with a Catholic priest know that they're weighed down with administrative burdens and meetings and councils and endless minutiae most of them never thought would be the main part of the job when they were in seminary.
But when you start to realize how much really heavy stuff they also carry -- visits to gruesome accident and crime scenes for possible last rites, dealing with suicides, informing family members of deaths, being with countless folks as they take their final breaths, talking down veterans going through a PTSD episode, dealing with substance and domestic abuse among parishioners, trying to keep folks out of the jaws of despair -- it's a LOT. The kind of stuff that can really get to a man.
Every time his phone rings, every time he gets a text or an email, it's almost always because someone wants something from him -- often something hard.
And after all that, he has to be really careful about who he allows to offer the simple kindness of giving him a reassuring hug, unless he wants to risk a possible allegation of impropriety.
A priest friend who eventually left the priesthood once told me that it's not just the loneliness, but the isolation that's so crushing. They are left alone with almost every burden. There is so much duty and so little help - especially from the chancery. And then, they have to come home to a quiet, empty rectory to sit alone with all of it.
Anything you can do to make your priest feel loved, supported, appreciated, and cared for -- not in a clericalist way with excessive deference and doting, but just as a man and a human being -- would probably be appreciated more than you know.
The simple act of checking on him once in a while to see how he's doing without asking for anything in return might just mean the world to him.
Their dull glass eyes; their meaningless babble; their infantile yet alien physiognomy.
Not saying Teletubbies was *bad* per se, but my daughter watching it gives me a feeling similar to that of seeing her approach a brightly-colored insect I don't recognize.
@haymes_joshua Woah... I'm a straight man, i've seen both maggots and two men kissing, but my physiological responses were NOT the same both times and WTF now I'm PISSED I'd better get to speak to a MANAGER because these physiological responses are DEFECTIVE ugh what a RIPOFF ๐ค
@JaimeeUSA I've seen a *lot* of Miss Rachel with my 2-year old and this parody is wildly inaccurate.
Yes, she's woke on her socials, but she doesn't bring that into the show itself. You do understand that toddlers aren't on Instagram, right?
When Tapper and co. say โNazis,โ they mean Charlie Kirk. They mean the average, every-day Trump voter. They donโt mean extremists โ they mean your kindly, church-going grandma. They mean your brother. They mean your neighbour and his children. They mean you.
@WallStreetApes "American shows how local Walmart and says he has never seen it so stocked."
"how local Walmart and"?
If you don't like the stereotype that the right is dumber than the left, then proofread before posting.
I don't understand how hierarchical marriages work.
There's a lot of talk on trad Twitter about a submissive wife and an authoritarian husband being the ideal marriage model, and honestly, I can't imagine how this kind of power dynamic could survive in a happy marriage, especially behind closed doors.
Reaching the ultimate degree of intimacy with another person becomes impossible the moment you introduce rank into the relationship. I see why the "I don't want my wife to be my best friend!" guys find the idea appealing, but I would assume most people long for a deeper connection with their spouses than such an arrangement could allow for.
The trads have correctly identified a problem โ the damage done to male-female relationships by woke culture โ but, in trying to solve it, they ended up overcorrecting and, much like their opponents, missing the ideal.