The Times They Are A-Changin’

          Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.  Recently I came across a news story that had everything:  patriarchal men facing off against earnest feminists who were protesting male oppression and church traditionalism.  The story had liberated sexuality, violence, and people screaming in frustration who couldn’t take it any more.  It had a conference of 17,000 who gathered at the annual the National Meeting of Women in San Juan, Argentina to discuss violence, gender issues and abortion rights.  It had a burning effigy of the Pope, surrounded by crowds chanting slogans.  It even had topless women.  A journalist’s dream.  Why then has it not been all over the news?  After all, you can blur the topless parts.  Who wouldn’t eat up a story about earnest feminists assembling to discuss and denounce male oppression who find themselves confronted by horrid patriarchal men from the church?

            Maybe because the horrid patriarchal men from the church weren’t the ones doing the confronting.  It was the women who were doing the confronting, going topless and storming the Roman Catholic cathedral in Podomos, Argentina, the city where the conference was held, to inflict damage upon it in the name of their cause.  Last year 500 tried to storm the cathedral.   This year it was 7000 feminist troops who tried to storm the building.  You can read all about it here, including watching a brief news video.  In anticipation of this year’s storming, 1500 turned up to defend their San Juan cathedral from damage.  The men linked arms in a ring outside to prevent entry.  The women responded by going topless, shouting obscenities, molesting them, spitting at them, and spray-painting the faces and bodies of the men.  Yep, spray-painting, mostly their faces and crotches, some with Nazi symbols.  Oh, and chanting too.  What would a feminist protest be without chanting?  In this case they chanted, “To the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, who wants to get between our sheets, we say that we want to be whores, transvestites and lesbians!  Legal abortion in every hospital!”  Wow.  Like I said, you can’t make this stuff up.  What were the men doing when all this physical abuse against their bodies was going on?  They were praying the Rosary.  Some were weeping.

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