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[clcg1]

This
http://www.catholicity.com/commentary/ckennedy/whatgirlswant.html
says what I try to say, but is probably more fluid in its expression...

Comments

[morganmalfoy]

hmm, I liked the overall article, but the beginning irritated me, because I was (am?) an altar server, and don't see it as a way of wanting to upstage men, but as a way of participating in the liturgy when there was no other way to do so up close and personally. Is she next going to argue that adult women should not lector and be extraordinary ministers? Then her argument about the media portrayals of women outdoing men in order to be real women, imho, is flawed. I may be biased due to my triplet's awesome pop culture critique of such shows as not being feminist at all but reinforcing male patriarchy, but it makes me feel like the author, who is arguing something vitally important and true, is using crap examples of how the media is twisting women into wanting to be men. Why not discuss shoulder pads, or the lack of concern for maternity leave, or something more real than the media in discussing the ways that modern society does not make allowances for women to behave like anything other than men to get ahead

[clcg1]

I do see some of your points Mo, but I wholeheartedly agree with the author on the point of female altar servers. Its not that I think girls up there are in some way trying to be men or any other weird interpretation, its that the original purpose of altar servers was to prepare boys for a future role as priests...I know that doesn't happen in 99.9% of altar servers but the fact of the matter is when I see the seminarians serving mass it resonates somewhere in my soul in a way that seeing a girl up there never will. The same is not true of Extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist or lectors so if one were to argue about women in those situations I would be right there with you decrying it

[morganmalfoy]

I will admit, I love seeing the Sems altar serve.