ha! what are short-haired nuns?
That was a shorthand reference to the radical lesbian-feminist cadre who are trying to bring female priests into the Catholic church. No thanks - been there, done that with the Episcopalians.
As a young college grad, I was all in favor of "priestesses" in the ECUSA - but personal experience changed my mind. Our former ECUSA parish was a "training parish" where young ordinands did a year or two of service at the largest parish in the diocese before striking out on their own as rectors or assistant rectors in smaller churches. So I saw every woman ordained in the Diocese of Atlanta over a period of about 20 years. With a single exception, none of them were qualified - most couldn't preach, couldn't counsel, and couldn't perform their priestly functions properly. Many were neurotics looking for self-therapy, many were radical feminists who didn't have a "call" except to spread their political agenda, one was an actual lesbian living with another woman (at least they fired her, but times have changed, they probably wouldn't fire her now). The only one who was a decent pastor is 100 percent behind the homosexual "bishop" - no doubt influenced or browbeaten by her more radical sisters.
I feel very strongly about this - and a couple of well-meaning Catholic laymen and women in our new parish who were thinking that maybe ordaining women wouldn't be such a bad idea got an earful!