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This is a fascinating way to maintain a disciplined life

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Persephonee · 26-30, F
It's certainly a fascinating insight into how the Daily Mail wants to fetishise absolutely everything. These are young women very nearly literally being criticised for not having a flurry of boyfriends and having sex with all of them in short order. And it's the same paper that also bleats that "family values" (including abstinence outside marriage) are alarmingly on the wane. One almost wonders whether anyone should ever read it.

I think better good would be served by giving everyone real toilet paper. The article is that bad!

God bless those women, and men.

Opus Dei suffers from St Josemaría Escrivá (for those who don't know, the Spanish priest who founded Opus Dei, which is really just an organisation of lay Catholic men and women) being somewhat personally...zealous...in a way that modern sensibilities find a bit icky. And it suffers even more from Dan Brown who can write a cracking (after a fashion) thriller, but which bears as much relation to reality as my singing "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" in the shower does to Angela Gheorghiu doing it.
Persephonee · 26-30, F
@MrsRachelEvans Exactly. I'm not sure it's the life that I'd look for personally, either, but I think it just shows (again) the honest joy of what, today, seems rather countercultural.
MrsRachelEvans · 31-35, F
@Persephonee also they were getting a safe place to live and at a reasonable cost, no exploitation and good discipline to help keep them focused.
Persephonee · 26-30, F

 
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