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		<title>Sex Positive: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love My Body</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melinda Selmys]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have not seen the Superbowl half-time show. But that has not prevented me from getting into arguments about it on the internet. Or rather, having arguments about overt displays of female sexuality. It’s interesting, because today I see the arguments that I was raised with — arguments from second wave feminism — being bandied [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Make Women Slaves Again</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melinda Selmys]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[For a long time, the open misogyny of so many people in the pro-life movement puzzled me. Surely if all life was sacred, then women’s lives were sacred? Surely if we wanted to end abortion we should be happy to help young mothers bear the costs of raising children? It took me a long time [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Lord Has Worked Marvels For Me: Open Letter Pt. 3</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/catholicauthenticity/2019/10/the-lord-has-worked-marvels-for-me-open-letter-pt-3/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melinda Selmys]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2019 22:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been astounded over the past few days by the sheer number of women who have come to me or posted on social media about how precisely I am describing their experience. I knew that I wasn’t an outlier. I knew I wasn’t alone. I had forgotten how common it is, especially for religious [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Central Spiritual Struggle of Women: Open Letter, part 2</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/catholicauthenticity/2019/10/3090/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melinda Selmys]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anorexia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“I think that the central moral struggle is to really internalize that other people are people in the same way that I am.” We were sitting in the farmhouse of the religious community that my partner used to be a member of. I was up for a brief visit, and we were, as usual, talking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Open Letter to the Young Rad-Trad Women</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/catholicauthenticity/2019/10/an-open-letter-to-the-young-rad-trad-women/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melinda Selmys]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2019 21:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[catechesis]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There was a buzz of tangible excitement among the older traditionalist Catholics every time that my friends and I walked into the room. We were the vanguard, the beacons of hope in the churning storm of a postmodern, sexually liberated culture. Young Ratzinger fanboys eager for the Latin Mass and ready to repopulate the empty [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Maybe It&#8217;s Okay That Man Should Be Alone</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melinda Selmys]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2019 14:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ll get back to talking about wanking and what-not in a while. For now, I want to talk a little about spirituality. The spiritual life is, I think, fundamentally concerned with the relationship between the self and the other. I don’t just mean that it’s about how we relate to other people, or how we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>To Wank or Not To Wank</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melinda Selmys]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 23:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Chastity]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bob considers himself to be a compulsive masturbator. His daily routine once he gets out of bed is to immediately go to confession. He lives in terror that one of these days he will get run over by a streetcar or suffer a heart-attack in between getting up and getting to church. He sincerely fears [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Biblical Account of Toxic Femininity</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/catholicauthenticity/2019/08/a-biblical-account-of-toxic-femininity/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melinda Selmys]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 18:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s finally time to talk about toxic femininity. In our previous discussions of toxic masculinity there were two types of masculine identities that I identified as toxic: those which are puerile, and those which are outdated. The man-child who expects his wife to look after him the same way that his mother did falls into [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What is Gender Anyway?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/catholicauthenticity/2019/07/what-is-gender-anyway/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melinda Selmys]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chivalry]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Toxic femininity” is one of those terms that’s incredibly problematic, largely because it was first formulated as a form of tu quoque. “Well, if there’s toxic masculinity doesn’t that imply that there’s toxic femininity too? Aren’t women just as capable of being toxic as men?” Gotcha! Everyone (except the person doing it) recognizes this as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Moderation Problems</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/catholicauthenticity/2019/07/moderation-problems/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melinda Selmys]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[combox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comments]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is just a super brief update to let you all know that I’ve tried to fix the moderation issues that have been coming up recently. I edited the list of restricted words which, I assume, Patheos had helpfully added to my blog. We should now be able to talk about sex, queer people, gay [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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