I only glanced at the original thread, so I can't really comment with assurance. But is this quote from Mr. Popcak accurate, in context? "You will have to decide whether having boys record their sister's or mother's temperatures is an option for your family, but as long as the person whose chart it is (the mother or sister) is not terribly opposed to the idea (you really have to respect her opinion on this), I feel favorably toward the idea because it decreases the chances that your young teens will eroticize their sexuality."Personally, the idea seems to me to be... demented. Like a cruel, sick joke on all involved.
I'm just having a hard time wrapping my rather limited little intolerant mind around this.
If it is in context, it's really difficult for me to imagine a reasoned defense for Mr. Popcak.
Frankly, I am so appalled by the comment, by the idea, that it makes me think to entirely discount anything and everything the gentleman has ever said or written. I thought perhaps that I was overreacting, so I asked my wife, who is, of course, a saint on earth, what she thought.
She disagreed strongly with my reaction, which was "ICK".
She emphatically states that the appropriate reaction is "EEEEWWWWW!! EEEEWWWWW!! EEEEWWWW!!"
I stand corrected.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/968177/posts?page=15#15
Dear Maximilian,
LOL!!
Gee, I'd forgotten all the details of this stuff!!
It was HORRID!!
But, in fairness, I'll repeat that in private correspondence, the gentleman did make explicitly clear that although he failed to condemn the practice (bad enough), he didn't endorse it.
Anyway, I've pretty much discounted the gentleman's writings since then. LOL.
But it's clear to me that even among the "professional NFPers," the Kool-Aid drinking isn't typical. I have a friend who is a professional speaker on all things pro-life, including the extreme desirableness of NFP. We were discussing the gentleman, and my friend endorsed him strongly. I expressed my view that the gentleman is an iffy source of things Catholic, and told him about this whole "brother-sister charting" business (let me go wash my hands after having typed that, blech).
Well, the look of horror on his face was just about complete. For a good fifteen or twenty seconds, he made every effort to find a tactical point into a defense of the gentleman. Finally, he gave up. It was just too much. He just couldn't bring himself to any other conclusion for himself other than, "Yech!" He changed the subject. LOL!
This was truly one of the weirder discussions in which I'd ever been involved at FR.
LOL! Thanks for the reminders.
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On that we can wholeheartedly agree.