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I won't let my wife watch "The Flying Nun" when I'm in the room. I can't bear to look at that hat, wimple, habit, thing that Gidget wears. See, when I was a young lad and receiving a large amount of my social skills via the television, I was in puppy love with Gidget--
(who? Sally Field? isn't that the commando mom in that film "Not Without My Daughter"? never heard of her)
Gidget. So, to see Gidget in that nun's uniform reminds me of the centuries of burden my Catholic upbringing has placed upon my back. Gidget's nun hat is a symbol of the Christian de-sexing and subjugation of women everywhere. The show is propaganda of the worst kind. "Come, girls, come to the nunnery, where you too will fly with the birds if you only give up your sexual identity and wear this stupid hat." To give up your identity, your individuality, your woman-ness...is to be free as the birds. But, alas, I don't wish to bore you any further with quotes from my doctoral dissertation about Gidget.
So, I take a look at my live journal today, and discover that SOMEONE has edited my default user pic. My poor ExplodingCat has given up its sexual identity, preferring to fly with the birds. My wife is getting too skilled with Photoshop. Clearly, she believes that as a good Catholic I should feel guilty for the harm Christianity has done to the world's cultures and that I must repent. So...I, the exploding cat, will don the nun's hat to share the suffering of nuns everywhere. Well, I'll have her know it's all part of my evil plan. No bird would suspect a flying nun cat. The exploding cat shall fly with the birds, and eat them. Pluck them from the air like berries from a burning bush.
(who? Sally Field? isn't that the commando mom in that film "Not Without My Daughter"? never heard of her)
Gidget. So, to see Gidget in that nun's uniform reminds me of the centuries of burden my Catholic upbringing has placed upon my back. Gidget's nun hat is a symbol of the Christian de-sexing and subjugation of women everywhere. The show is propaganda of the worst kind. "Come, girls, come to the nunnery, where you too will fly with the birds if you only give up your sexual identity and wear this stupid hat." To give up your identity, your individuality, your woman-ness...is to be free as the birds. But, alas, I don't wish to bore you any further with quotes from my doctoral dissertation about Gidget.
So, I take a look at my live journal today, and discover that SOMEONE has edited my default user pic. My poor ExplodingCat has given up its sexual identity, preferring to fly with the birds. My wife is getting too skilled with Photoshop. Clearly, she believes that as a good Catholic I should feel guilty for the harm Christianity has done to the world's cultures and that I must repent. So...I, the exploding cat, will don the nun's hat to share the suffering of nuns everywhere. Well, I'll have her know it's all part of my evil plan. No bird would suspect a flying nun cat. The exploding cat shall fly with the birds, and eat them. Pluck them from the air like berries from a burning bush.
