The story stuck me strangely. I don’t think this young woman really understands the world we are living in now.
A young woman is suing a Catholic college, Stonehill in Massachussetts, because her roommate was getting her HHS funk on every night and the college did nothing about it.
After Stonehill administrators refused Blankmeyer’s request for a single room, the suit states, she “fell into a dark and suicidal depression requiring her to take a leave of absence from school and undergo extensive psychiatric and medical treatment.”
The suit alleges Stonehill’s actions not only deprived Blankmeyer of a reasonable living situation, but that in tolerating the alleged behavior Stonehill administrators defied standards of conduct that should have been enforced at a Roman Catholic institution.
Sister I feel for ya, I do. But you are so behind the times. You should just count your blessings that your randy roomie doesn’t sue you back because you didn’t pay for it. Once Sebelius hears about this, they gonna come after you for the $3k a year Ho Tax. All this complaining and suing is just violating your roomie’s government subsidized constitutional right to horizontal aerobics.
On the flip side of the Ho Tax, this is the first time that liberals want to take from the inactive and give to the busy.
March 2, 2012 at 12:19 pm
I was hoping to see at least one or two Catholic men condemning the use of the words "prostitute" and "slut" in reference to the (misguided and stupid, but still human and possessing human dignity) Georgetown student who testified before Congress this week. The suggestion that she post videos of her exploits online was particularly vile. "Ho Tax" makes pretty clear where you guys stand. Disappointing.
March 2, 2012 at 1:27 pm
She should just sign up for FornicAid.
March 2, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Funny no one has brought up – this is like making your employer pay for your cigarettes. Just like sex-as-recreation, smoking has health risks, but it's personal choice. And, darnit, if you don't wanna pay for free cigarettes for everyone=you are denying them rights. Everyone knows smoker-education doesn't work, they are going to smoke anyways. So make it free to smoke!! Yay!
What other risky recreational activities could become "free" by force. The possibilities are limitless!!!
-Metro
March 2, 2012 at 6:55 pm
CDP, what's your problem with calling a prostitute or a slut a prostitute or a slut? I used the word bimbo at another post. All of these words are accurate descriptions of what this kind of woman is.
March 2, 2012 at 7:58 pm
"…standards of conduct that should have been enforced at a Roman Catholic institution."
I laughed at that line until I thought about how incredibly sad it was. You really do have to sue Church institutions these days to hold them to any reasonable ethical code.
Unless, of course, there is money involved. Then contraception is wrong! Contraception is wrong! We have to pay for it, so now it's really, really wrong!
Yet, has this whole mess caused a flurry of homilies telling us WHY contraception is so wrong? Thought not.
March 3, 2012 at 1:18 am
Please don't dignify these women by calling them prostitutes. Prostitutes are far more honest than Madame Fluke. Prostitutes charge money for sex. At least Prostitution is a transaction between consenting parties. This "Fluke" wants to squander herself and force other people to pay for it. That makes her slut and a thief.
March 3, 2012 at 3:39 am
Fluke was talking how her friend needed the birth control pill for healthcare, NOT contraception. Because of the delay, she had to have surgery to remove an ovary.
The Liar's (or deceived or uninformed) on the right think she wanted them for themselves. Rush called her a slut but his viagra, while he was single NEVER is brought up. Hypocites abound on this site.
Unmarried sex for men: good/manly
Unmarried sex for women: sluts/prostitutes
March 3, 2012 at 3:43 am
Good to know, women that use contraception are Whores. Hope young Catholic girls read this site to understand good teaching.
March 3, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Steve,
Well, I guess it depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want to help foolish women like Ms. Fluke to see the truth of Catholic teaching about sex, then maybe you find gentle and charitable ways to correct them. If you want to reinforce the "Catholic Church–OPPRESSIVE TO WOMEN" narrative, then I guess go right ahead and call any woman who transgresses sexually a slut.
BTW, young unmarried women who demand free contraception are having sex with men, presumably, or they wouldn't need contraception. Any thoughts on what those men should be called?
March 4, 2012 at 1:17 am
@CDP: Man-whores
March 4, 2012 at 4:06 am
You shouldn't use bad language about Ms. Fluke. It's okay to do a "slut walk" and to publicly use your personal plight reagarding birth control – but that's only because you're doing it to yourself. We should just call her a liar and a melodramatic woman-child.
We should feel sorry for the women of Georgetown who are utterly unable to get free or affordable contraceptives. The Planned Parenthood clinic on Connecticut Ave is less than 2 miles from Georgetown's law library, but that's impossible to walk when they're chewing gum. Or perhaps they're embarrassed to go to a clinic that has so many people not like them – you know, the poor and uneducated who need subsidized birth control. After all, if you're embarrassed about asking your lover(s) to pay for condoms – which seems the only way that Ms. Fluke could have arrived at the 3K figure – you won't have the intestinal fortitude to walk into a clinic with people who aren't Georgetown material. /sarcasm
As for the "friend" with an ovarian cyst – I highly doubt such a person really exists, except as an anecdote. I was teaching at a Catholic school and was able to get on the Pill for Stein-Levanthal Syndrome (now commonly referred to as polycystic ovarian disease). I was young and unmarried, but it wasn't denied.
Anonymous who brought up viagra isn't thinking about what it's really for. HERE's your equivalency: Viagra cures a problem that interferes with natural function of the reproductive system, so it's covered in the same policies that cover treatments for irregular menstrual cycles and other fertility issues. (I didn't need to know that Mr. Limbaugh uses it… tmi.)
-MissJean the grad student
March 4, 2012 at 4:13 am
Contraception is wrong because contraception violates the will of God. Even atheists must know that they did not bring themselves into existence, or create their own life, their own soul or their sovereign personhood. The state does not give life, does not create the human being's soul and does not give FREEDOM. FREEDOM comes from God. Sex comes from God. The wonder of some other person liking you enough to want many more of you to be is what sex ia all about…and any one who says differently is a liar.
March 4, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Mary,
"Even atheists must know…" is wrong. Most of us atheists don't believe in any god or supernatural power.
I would love to know what a soul is in your definition. I truely don't understand the concept. It is similar to finding the holy ghost in scripture. Just a derived concept with no basis IMO (or pergatory).
March 4, 2012 at 8:09 pm
this is the first time that liberals want to take from the inactive and give to the busy.
Priceless…
The institution run by Jesuits, I suppose?
Mundabor
March 6, 2012 at 2:20 am
Derogatory terms negate your whole point. How can you have any grounds for a moral argument by making the most basic moral mistake, disrespecting others?