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Dec. 18th, 2018 07:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI watched Spotlight on Netflix last night.
There are... very few times in my life, very few, when I have been actively and truly glad I was not born male. This was one of them.
I was born and raised Catholic. As a kid I wanted to be a priest. I was told, straight up, that that was a no, that I was a girl, that only boys could be priests. (The prospect of nuns never came into the picture. Sisters didn't say Mass, they taught school, and if I wanted to teach school I could just be a teacher.) I didn't give up on that prospect for a long time. I even decided at one point that if I'd been a boy I would've tried to become a Jesuit; I had a cousin who was a Jesuit who taught at Fordham and they seemed like the right order.
If I'd been born a boy, and if I'd had the required three people tell me 'have you considered joining the Jesuits?', I'd have gone into the seminary after college. That would've been '96 or '97.
And I do not know what I would have done if I had been a priest when Spotlight broke the news in a way no one could ignore. But I'm glad I never had to find out.
And as it stands... as it stands I am deeply and intensely proud of the Boston Globe for having done it.
There are... very few times in my life, very few, when I have been actively and truly glad I was not born male. This was one of them.
I was born and raised Catholic. As a kid I wanted to be a priest. I was told, straight up, that that was a no, that I was a girl, that only boys could be priests. (The prospect of nuns never came into the picture. Sisters didn't say Mass, they taught school, and if I wanted to teach school I could just be a teacher.) I didn't give up on that prospect for a long time. I even decided at one point that if I'd been a boy I would've tried to become a Jesuit; I had a cousin who was a Jesuit who taught at Fordham and they seemed like the right order.
If I'd been born a boy, and if I'd had the required three people tell me 'have you considered joining the Jesuits?', I'd have gone into the seminary after college. That would've been '96 or '97.
And I do not know what I would have done if I had been a priest when Spotlight broke the news in a way no one could ignore. But I'm glad I never had to find out.
And as it stands... as it stands I am deeply and intensely proud of the Boston Globe for having done it.
