Isn't it interesting that the same set of Catholics who have no problem with a president boasting about how he likes to grab women's genitals, or with a Supreme Court justice accused of assaulting a young woman, also find it refreshing if a priest "only" assaults a woman? /1— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 9, 2019
How did Catholics get to this point, many of them? How did some U.S. Catholics get to the point at which they find it refreshing when a priest "only" assaults a woman, and when revelations about a superstar politically prominent priest sexually molesting a women become the occasion for yet another outpouring of homophobic discourse blaming gay priests for the abuse horrors?
A priest who "only" assaults a woman has proven that he's a real man, after all. There's a common theme running through all of these stories, isn't there? It's about the superiority of heterosexual people to homosexual ones. /2— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 9, 2019
It's also about the presumed right of straight men to take whatever they want whenever they want, no matter who gets hurt — with women viewed as predictable and acceptabie objects of male predation.
How did so many Catholics work themselves into this place, I wonder? /3— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 9, 2019
It's also about the presumed right of straight men to take whatever they want whenever they want, no matter who gets hurt — with women viewed as predictable and acceptabie objects of male predation.
How did so many Catholics work themselves into this place, I wonder? /3— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 9, 2019
People shocked at Fr. Longenecker's take on the McCloskey story have not been paying attention — to his homophobia and to the sense of heterosexual male entitlement (with attendant misogyny) from which the homophobia flows.— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 9, 2019
