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    The Vatican Issues a Special Message in Honor of International Women's Day: Ladies, Love your Maytag

    There is a vast amount of stupidity in this world and an even vaster amount of self-righteous and willful ignorance. So, congratulations to the Vatican for releasing perhaps the most monumentally ridiculous statement of the decade. With Republicans running amok, that is some accomplishment. Says the (all male) Vatican:

    Nothing has contributed more to the emancipation of women than the washing machine.

    Oh, really? Nothing? Not property-owning rights? Not suffrage? Not education? Not birth control so that we don't have to wash the clothing of 10 children in the first place? 

    The Vatican. What a bastion of female understanding. What's next? A statement that nothing has contributed more to the economic freedom of women than Susan B. Anthony on the dollar coin? Keep 'em coming, boys. We need all the laughs we can get.

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    Hey, I'm impressed that the article even conceded the contraceptive pill was in the running. Get used to it. Ex-Nazi though he may be, this pope is the most liberal we will see in our lifetimes. The Catholic Church is dying in the West, and the African bishops who are coming to prominence will take it much, much further to the right.


    The Vatican could at least say that 3,500 women leaving daily that most Catholic of countries, the Philippines, to work in 168 countries as housekeepers, maids, cooks and nannies, liberated the better-off, the well-off and the downright rich women from the drudgery of household work. 


    At least it stops a bit short of praising the practice of footbinding.


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