Italian Priest to Women Everywhere: Stop Hitting Yourself

Welp, it has been over a month since we had to write about the Catholic Church or one of its constituent pieces being generally terrible. (Please to note this does not mean that they didn't DO anything terrible for over a month - just that we were too busy drinking and warring on Christmas to pay attention.) Nothing gold can stay, dear readers, so we're back on the Catholic beat. What terrible new thing did some priest do this Christmas season? We are sure there are horrible pedo priest examples to be found, and the Pope did decide to make his Christmas message of peace about fags and their holy buttsechs, but right now we wanna focus on hating the ladies:  

Father Piero Corsi of Liguria sparked outrage after members of his congregation posted his Christmas bulletin onto Facebook. The flyer, entitled “Women and femicide – healthy self-criticism. How often do they provoke?” said victims of domestic and sexual violence should question if they were themselves to blame for the incident.

Oh cool! So he's like a men's rights activist AND a priest all rolled into one? (Or is that redundant? We're never sure.) Also: is it "self-criticism" when you are a dude (A CELIBATE DUDE) hating on the women? Isn't that pretty much the exact opposite of being self-critical? Does "self-criticism" have a meaning in Italian of which yr Wonkette was hitherto unaware? No matter. Let's get on to exploring how the evil ladies provoke men into raping and hitting!

The fact is that women are increasingly provocative, they become arrogant, they believe themselves to be self-sufficient and end up exacerbating the situation.

Children are abandoned to their own devices, homes are dirty, meals are cold or fast food, clothes are filthy.

Lolwhut? So ladies get all self-sufficient, but being self-sufficient makes them arrogant and makes them feed children and men cold meals, which means time for the hitting and the raping. Oh, and the murdering. Let's not forget that this gem of a flyer is titled "Women and Femicide." Ladies if you get murdered over letting dinner go cold or giving your hard-working man some Burger King, it is your own damn fault. It's so clear! Why didn't we see it before?

Don't feel left out, dudes. Father Piero Corsi of Liguria also has some... delightfully retrograde ... thoughts about you too!

“I don’t know whether you’re a queer or not, but what do you feel when you see a naked women?” he asked a reporter for Rai Radio.

“Are women themselves not causing harm by unveiling themselves like this?”

Women and men, a handy guide by Father Piero Corsi. Ladies, you are too provocative and fast-food-feeding, and that is what gets you beated, raped, and deaded. Men, you should be provoked by the women and if you're not, you're a queer. Just some helpful guidance as we head into the new year.

[ Raw Story / The Journal.ie ]