I quit watching FoxNews 2 years ago and am happy for it. Stopped listening to Rush, too. I agree with them mostly, I just think it’s all so much talk and not enough action. In the time I saved not watching FoxNews, I landscaped my parish, around the parking lot and the church.
Welcome to the modern world. Let’s all be grateful they weren’t exposed to the joys of … (I can’t even bring myself to say what it is, but they are teaching this nauseating practice to 4th-graders now, in the name of ‘tolerance.’)
Ya know what’s really sad about that commercial? I’ve been dieting to losing 40 lbs. of pg weight and my dd keeps making comments about me becoming her dad’s “trophy wife”. She doesn’t understand why that’s degrading to women.On Nutrisystem I lost 83 pounds. To celebrate, I am going to put on a couple decorative bandaids and prance around on a tv commercial calling myself my husband’s trophy wife. Young ladies across America will look at me and my before picture and realize that they will never be a “prize” for their future beau unless they, too, lose 83 pounds. Young men across America will long for the trophy wife they saw on tv. All women should be a size 1/2 and prance around 97% naked on prime time television just like me.
Now if only I could find an ad so dh’s ***** don’t last 4 hours.
I was absolutely and thoroughly disgusted to find out that they now have clothes in NEGATIVE sizes!
And they wonder why so many people have eating disorders! )Here it is, straight from the FCC itself:
Part of that deal is that they have made the regular sizes larger over the years, so they had to go below zero to accommodate the tinier sizes. The size 14 of 1970 is more like a size 10 today, so the size 2 of today would be like yesteryear’s size 6. I guess they sold more clothes making us full-figured girls believe that we were fitting into a smaller size.I was absolutely and thoroughly disgusted to find out that they now have clothes in NEGATIVE sizes!
It’s nice to think that I wore a 16 in high school but only wear a 14 now, never mind that it’s 35 years later and I’m 30 pounds heavier! 
Ooooook!
I’m glad I didn’t see that one.Please don’t get me wrong. I think it’s wonderful what you are doing . Too bad there weren’t more mamas like you. I work in maternity and they seem to get younger and younger every year.We associate with like minded families as often as possible. My children participate in a Christian homeschooling PE program during which there is little time for any other children to “educate” each other on the topic of sex. We participate in “park days” with other homeschoolers, many of which are not Catholic. Still, they run around and play. It isn’t exactly conducive to peer sex education. In the current over-sexed mentality in our culture, I consider maintaining my children’s mental purity to be part of my job as long as I am able. They will be educated–by dh and I. They will be educated both on the basics of the topic and on the deviance they will encounter once they leave the nest. It will all be taught in light of what does God will for us. In some ways, they are already getting the beginning of this education when dh and I point out terribly immodest clothing offerings displayed on mannequins in the mall or simply on people we see (sometimes at church
Don’t worry, we are not retreating into a cave with our children until they are 43 years old. Though I wonder, if I were homeschooling my children in Sodom or Gomorrah, would I consider that very idea?
**What’s wrong with a husband telling his wife he thinks she’s hot? **
I’m with you.
Frankly, I don’t think I’m a “trophy wife” by any stretch, but I certainly like to hear/know that my dh thinks I’m attractive.
It’s the term I object to. I tell my wife how wonderful she is and how great she looks without ever having to use the term “hot”.
Frankly, I don’t think I’m a “trophy wife” by any stretch, but I certainly like to hear/know that my dh thinks I’m attractive.
semantics.
**Maybe you didn’t tell her, but I bet you thought it.