Monday, February 21, 2005

Idlers, gossips, & busybodies

Is it Christian to make fun of someone for the way they look?

The gang of happy housewives on another blog is discussing an email allegedly received by one of them. The email apparently came from one 'k.d. van der bosch' who claimed to be a Bush supporter but it is fairly obvious that she is not.

I have my own theory about the email, but let's explore the response by the Christian women. First is by the resident Catholic fundamentalist:
It's odd that this anon poster would choose the initials "K.D." rather like, K.D. Lang? I have come to believe that certain female pursuers of Donna's (& mine) are perhaps lesbian or are at least exploring their lesbian tendancies. This would explain the inordinate amount of time they spend pursuing other women and reviling their Christianity, which is opposed to homosexual "activities", shall we say. Perhaps desire for Donna and frustration at the futility of that pursuit is driving them nuts?

Just a theory.

Posted by: Amy *******

Just as one would expect she is focused on the person's sexuality. A lifetime of sexual repression leads her to speculate that they have a lesbian stalker/sexual predator that they are dealing with. She immediately associates the 'k.d.' part with a celebrity who happens to be a lesbian. It's funny that she did not connect the 'van der Bosch' to the Jesuit hagiographer.

Then they go on to discuss a certain person's appearance. They emailed each other a picture of the alleged lesbian stalker of the middle aged-mother of three and even more middle-aged mother of four. The mother of three suggested that if a person is ugly on the inside she is probably ugly on the outside.

Then another of the mothers chimed in with this:
How ugly is that photo? Good grief, I mean at least fix yourself up a bit before plastering it all over the net. Some people have no self respect. Someone needs to introduce the subject of that photo to Max....Max Factor! Use a bit of makeup.

Posted by: Alice

These women are supposedly Christian mothers in their mid-30s but they behave like middle school girls with a secret. Do THEY have a secret crush on someone? Or maybe they are jealous of the popular girl. Whatever the case, I don't think that behavior is very Christlike.

Someone passed along photo ** edit** (due to a harassment complaint to flickr by D***a I have had to make the photo 'friends only', if you really want to see it...) that one of these women posted of herself. I guess she was too embarrassed to show her face on this one, but we've seen her face many times.

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