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SharonAnn

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14. Gilead, from "The Handmaid's Tale".

Wed Jan 9, 2019, 12:08 PM

Jan 2019

Last edited Wed Jan 9, 2019, 01:30 PM - Edit history (1)

Men controlling women, sitting in judgment on them, controlling reproduction.
Makes me sick.

I’m from a large Catholic family, oldest of eight. I have more than 65 first cousins. I saw first hand the burden women have in this environment. I decided at a young age not to marry, then the birth control pill came along. Yay!

One aunt had such severe post-Parton depression that she often had to be institutionalized yet she had eight more children. Others just barely managed with nearly constant depression.

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I sincerely do not understand. TomSlick Jan 2019 #4

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I must bow to your superior experience. TomSlick Jan 2019 #11

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Gilead, from "The Handmaid's Tale". SharonAnn Jan 2019 #14

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As a former catholic...Fuck the Vatican. MontanaMama Jan 2019 #5

And now, a bunch of ostensibly virginal men in dresses will instruct women on sex and repro . . . hatrack Jan 2019 #6

Also counseling on "family life". As if they would know. SharonAnn Jan 2019 #16