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A "Stereotype Killer"

By The Daily Dish
Feb 12 2007, 7:02 AM ET

A reader writes:

The letter from the Catholic nun was simply stunning. I printed it out - it's a keeper. She spoke so beautifully, so openly, of the female experience. Your printing it humanized her to a secular type like me who has probably always assumed that Catholic nuns think very differently than I do. I have to laugh at myself -  I can only wish I had her bold eloquence and when speaking of women's sexuality and her experience of it.

I'm much too shy with that stuff thanks to the internalized shame she writes about. I'm rather ashamed to say the letter was a stereotype killer for me.



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