Accidentally sucked into...

An article that started out talking about Amy Coney Barrett.

There’s more than one way to be a Catholic feminist | America Magazine

"She said that at talks for teens, leaders emphasized 'stuff about controlling women,' telling the girls that they must dress modestly in order to keep men from sinning. 'While we were taught the body was good, my own body was treated as shameful,' she said.

Ms. Tyler said that in the covenant community, 'single women over 30 were considered pathetic. Most of the women did stay home and have kids. Some did have jobs, but they were all ‘little,’ and the attitude was patronizing. You could be a woman with a career—but never a high-powered one.' She remembers that 'the general feel was that women were the helpers, not the main event. Women were the wives of men, not half of humanity.' If these messages had been countered by a healthy family life, they might have caused less damage. Sadly, in Ms. Tyler’s case, the culture in her religious community only made things worse, fueling a deeply abusive situation at home.

It was not until she left her parents’ home that she began to understand the depth of the dysfunction in both her family and her faith community. In college, Ms. Tyler was violently sexually assaulted. Her immediate reaction was, 'I need to go to confession.' This was a wake-up call for her. As she put it, 'if a survivor’s first thought the morning after is ‘I need to go to confession,’ then something is very, very wrong with the way they were raised and taught.'”

~ S. Sigillito