Adjacent, my MIL is a bleeding heart liberal but still goes to a conservative church. When the little old ladies find out I go to a church "downtown," they whisper, scandalized "one of those LIBERAL churches??"

Yeah, and where do *your* kids go, Barbara? Nowhere? Yup. That's what I thought.

That really sucks, I'm sorry.

Prioritizing moving to a place where I could go to church again (not the only priority, but one of them), has been a huge bonus for me. I hope you find what you need in a faith community.

That sounds like so much fun

Me, but silently because the one year old is finally sleeping

We got Hutchinson, we'll be ok

mine also sometimes will hand me fuzzy socks 😅

Seriously though when I saw Reacher without his shirt I was *viscerally. repulsed.* I was watching it with my partner and he laughed when I uncontrollably gagged. I've never liked "beefcakes" but Reacher made me ill.

It's included in a lot of homeschool curriculum catalogues, it's listed on ChristianBook(dot)com, etc. People are still profiting from it.

"Daddy's Little Toy* got a woman arrested for creating CSAM and the characters in the books behave *more ethically* than the men in Elsie Dinsmore! The MC that Woods wrote waits until she's a full ten years older than Elsie was.

Just.

Yikes on bikes all around.

In the Elsie books, her father's best friend falls in love with her when she is SEVEN YEARS OLD. When she's eight he starts "flirting" (grooming), tells her to sit on his lap, etc. Her own father forces her to marry the man later on.