Friday, March 29, AD 2024 2:53am

Surreal

I saw a rather silly ad from Reebok, in the sadly very popular style of lecturing about what you are “allowed” to do.

Sadly, I saw it because it was a cause of scandal via gossip– I’m a known Catholic among friends and family, so I’m expected to defend…pretty much everything any Catholic does, up to and including Hitler. (…you haven’t run into that one?  Lucky you.)  If there is no response, then the gossip is perfectly fine.

Funny thing?  I was so busy being annoyed at visiting Patheos that I didn’t notice it was on Shea’s blog until a charmingly psycho response showed up.

Oh, I’m banned, now, by the way.  On being found guilty of being a Trump Supporter. (Which is impressive, since I’m not.)

I am rather annoyed at being accused of defending boorish behavior– I hadn’t said a thing about their comboxes, one way or another.

From the behavior of their mod, no wonder Shea had to appeal to the vast moral authority of a shoe company.  It’s

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Donald R. McClarey
Admin
Monday, July 17, AD 2017 4:25pm

The last thing Shea wants is an articulate and informed visitor to his comboxes because he has nothing to offer in response except insult and bluster.

Don the Kiwi
Don the Kiwi
Monday, July 17, AD 2017 5:12pm

Defending Hitler? Never ran across that one, but have on many occasions countered the “Pius XII was Hilter’s Pope” garbage. Many small and very bigoted minds out there. I relish a good argument though, especially when the other party is made to eat his words.

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Monday, July 17, AD 2017 6:52pm

Hey now, I think that time you weren’t asked to defend things because you were Catholic, but because you were a woman. 😉

I just laugh at the “bravery” of standing up to the president. What just like most of the news networks? And most of Hollywood? Universities… other major corporations…

Jonah likes to make a frequent joke about how the Left defines bravery and rebellion as going along with the larger group.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Tuesday, July 18, AD 2017 4:20am

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you.”

Dave Griffey
Dave Griffey
Tuesday, July 18, AD 2017 6:06am

Welcome to the club. The fastest growing demographic in the Church must be ‘those who Mark Shea has banned.’

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Tuesday, July 18, AD 2017 6:42am

For those who need the reminder: chezami is Mark Shea.

You can tell by how easily his argument can be turned around against him.

“You exemplify the failure of the Catholic Trump attacker. *Everything*, no matter how trivial, *must* be attacked. You waste your time attacking such piggery because *nothing* can be admitted as acceptable in your hatred for him. Nothing.”

See what I mean?

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Tuesday, July 18, AD 2017 7:30am

Oh no, Foxfier, “guest” comment there is familiar enough I could probably guess who it normally is that maybe just forgot to log in. Shea has a lot around his blog nowadays that are like that.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Tuesday, July 18, AD 2017 8:24am

Chezami is actually two words: chez ami. I think this is a diminutive for the French phrase “chez mon ami,” meaning “at my friend’s.” There was a restaurant – a supper club actually – located in Buffalo, NY that was named chezami. Whether chezami is a pseudonym for the infamous and heterodox Mark Shea I do not know. If chezami is he, then one wonders exactly at whose friend’s Mark Shea would be given his heterodox liberalism.

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Tuesday, July 18, AD 2017 9:01am

LQC, don’t forget, you asked for this. 😉

From here.

I will be commenting as “chezami”. (Get it? “Shea’s-a-Me? Home of Friends? Get it? Ah me, I am *so* clever.)

Ezabelle
Ezabelle
Tuesday, July 18, AD 2017 1:30pm

The liberal media has written multiple “style” articles comparing Melanie’s dress sense with that of the French Presidents wife, even daring to say that the French Presidents wife should start dressing her age, particularly criticising her for her short hemlines. I know this because I sometimes read this trash.

So for anybody to turn around in shock at Trump’s compliment of the French First Lady (yes he was complimenting her), is just pure hypocrisy by the media. Pure hypocrisy. Nothing Trump said comes even close to the criticisms that have been made by these “style” magazines.

On a side note, Mark Shea IS a disgusting pig with absolutely no class, and the rubbish that he spews makes absolutely no sense. He writes to be controversial and to attract attention- nothing more.

Paul Zummo
Admin
Wednesday, July 19, AD 2017 1:18pm

And you made me click on **that** blog. Ten metaphorical lashes for your crime.

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Wednesday, July 19, AD 2017 5:09pm

Foxfier, dear, you are on the front lines, the vanguard of what is inexorably coming, swift and furious. For example, today Breitbart.com reveals that at least 2 dozen Catholic sites were locked out by our dear friends at Facebook, apparently for issues with their “content”. One site was “Jesus and Mary” (Oh, THOSE two again):
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/07/19/facebook-blocks-more-than-two-dozen-popular-catholic-pages-without-explanation/

We Are Dangerous.

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Thursday, July 20, AD 2017 7:09am

Oh good, someone else showed up to add to Foxfier’s sanity on the page. From a comment left there:

Reebok isn’t being particularly “courageous”. They are surfing the current wave of “criticizing Trump is cool” sentiment. (They can read polls.) While I agree that Trump’s comments are – at most times – oddly-phrased at best, I think this is just an example of corporate opportunism.

But what stuns me most is that one is apparently not allowed to mention – at a gym! – that someone else is in good shape. Additionally, you are also apparently not allowed to tell a woman that she is beautiful. (I’m pretty sure tone and context might have something to do with it as well.)

Is the only one I’m allowed to compliment (at a gym or anywhere else) myself in the mirror? Forgive me if I am mistaken, but I thought self-love and vanity was a sin.

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