I received this message in my message box from jojomarco.  I reprinted it with her permission and link.  (Please do not spam her).

“This is in regards to a lot of the comments on your recent post about thin women. I was disappointed by many of the comments, but, unfortunately, not surprised at all.

Some people worry an awful lot about offending fat people. But who really worries about the thin people? Many, many women, especially younger women, are just naturally thin. Many women who don’t watch what they eat are blessed enough with a fast metabolism that they stay skinny anyway. So what? I’m just sick of fatter people saying, “Oh, she’s so skinny. I wonder what eating disorder she has.” or “Real women have curves.”

Honestly, you’d be surprised at how much I hear things like that, and I think that bigger women don’t realize how hurtful it is to say things like that. Just because not all of us have huge boobs and J. Lo butts doesn’t mean we aren’t women too.

The way I see it, it’s turning into reverse discrimination: the fat people, who were once hated, are turning on the thin people. There’s so much talk of “accepting your body for what it is.”

Can’t the bigger people accept the thin people?”

I posted this issue in my photoblog earlier. 

She said she was a little drunk but thought someone had touched her breast. When she got the photo back, she saw that his hand is on her boob. I for one will give the Prince the benefit of the doubt.

How about you?

The Pope mentioned in a parish in Rome that hell is a place where people really do burn in fire.  He said that those who don’t repent risk “eternal damnation -the inferno.”

He said that hell “really exists and is eternal, even if nobody talks about it much any more.”  Here is the link:  Link

Do you believe that hell “really exists and is eternal?”

This is an issue I received in my message box:

“my husband is leaving me stating he is no longer in love w/ me, he has been in an ongoing “friendship” w/ an old friend from high school, who is a women. shortly before my husband decided to leave, I discovered an email stating how much they loved each other. He has moved out, and has gone over his cell phone minutes & texts talking to this woman (I know cuz I’m still paying the bill, thou it’s his money) I also have heard messages she has left professing her love to him and how she can help him get to sleep at night.

he states nothing physical has ever happened, they are just friends. I say it’s an emotional affair.

my question, is this still cheating?”

The Court of Appeal in the UK made a decision that I would like to throw on the table.  The ruled that a drunk person (in this case a woman) can still consent to sex.  The case came to the court after a man was convicted of raping a woman after they had sex when they had both been drinking. 

The 25-year-old man and the 19-year-old woman were together with some friends one evening and they were both drinking heavily.  She drank two pints of cider and four to six vodkas.  He drank two pints of lager and had some vodka and Red Bull.

The girl got sick from the drink in the shower.  The man helped her wash her hair.  The next thing she remembers is waking up in bed having sex with him.

The court did not see the issue as whether the woman was less inhibited or whether the guy behaved irresponsibly.  They saw the issue as an issue of whether he had “sexual intercourse with the complainant without her consent.”

The court ruled “where the complainant has voluntarily consumed even substantial quantities of alcohol, but nevertheless remains capable of choosing whether or not to have intercourse, and in drink agrees to do so, this would not be rape.”

Can a drunk person consent to sex?

Since 1840, every 20 years the president who was elected has either died in office or been shot and that would make our current president the first to break the streak.  Here is the link:  Link

Here is an IM conversation I had tonight: 

friend: so i have a question for you
TheTheologiansCafe  Ok
friend: i have to use the restroom
TheTheologiansCafe  Ok
TheTheologiansCafe  You may go if that was the question
friend: i would feel bad just leaving in the middle of our IM
friend: and not explaining
TheTheologiansCafe  Haha
friend: at the same time
friend: it feels a bit weird to inform you of my bowel movements
TheTheologiansCafe  Haha
TheTheologiansCafe  Ok
friend: how does one handle a situation like this
friend: ask ur blog
friend: but umm… please don’t use my screenname

I told my friend I thought I had posted this before but here we go:  

If you were going to have a bowel movement during an IM, would you mention it?  

Recently in my photoblog, I posted pictures of women I thought were attractive.  One of them was in reference to NCAA basketball.  She is a cheerleader from UCLA.  Here is her picture:

Here were a few of the comments left about her from other women:

“Looks like she could stand a trip to McDonald’s… Poor girl.”

“[sing song voice] *Someone needs plastic surgery!*”

“yes.. she looks rather skinny.”

Here is the photo I posted for the winner of the Miss USA contest:

Here are a few comments left by women:

“someone get her a sandwich! she looks like she is starving!!”

“And I also agree that she needs to gain a little.”   

“Why is it that we crown someone “Miss America” that looks like a pole? You would think that someone with such a title would have to have the stuff that counts — brains, compassion, etc.. Not big boobs and a body that looks great in a bathing suit.”  

“Ew. I didn’t know this was the contest for who could starve themselves the most.” 

“she’s too skinny.. i can see the outline of her bones.. that scares me..”  

Are these women really too skinny or are women just jealous of each other? 

Authorities are saying that Anna Nicole Smith died of “accidental overdose.” 

She was taking a sleeping medication plus eight other prescription drugs.  (This issue was sent to me by distler via the message box).  Here is the link to the article:  Link

I have noticed that all of these stars check into “treatment” centers for getting hooked on prescription drugs.  I have heard that the prescription drugs can give the same high as illegal drugs.

Should someone be asking questions if they are being prescribed 9 prescriptions at once?

Credit cards have been in the news because Congress is addressing unfair practices of credit card companies.  They are discussing the issue of how credit card companies are charging unfair interest rates, rasing interest rates and giving unfair fines. 

There are those that are claiming that the problem is the consumer.  The government is probably going to pass laws that put more responsibility on the lenders.  

I have heard of movements that tell a person they should have no debt except maybe a house payment or a car payment.  Some in those groups will also say you can have a school loan.  But others will go so far as to say that you should not have a car loan or a house payment.  

Is it realistic to live without borrowing any money?