A Gay/campy chronicling of daily life in NYC,with individual kernels of human truth. copyright 2011 by The Raving Queen
Sunday, August 3, 2014
No Stone Floors In THIS Convent, Girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What have we come to, girls???????????? Nuns selling detergent? What would Sister Camille D'Arienzo say????
When I first saw the new Tide commercial, I thought it was an outtake of the "Asylum" segment of "American Horror Story." Where Jessica Lange plays an evil nun.
This was more horrific than that. A nun--dressed in a New Age outfit, which, to me, as a pre-Vatican II Catholic suggests she is not a real nun, because, as we all know, real nuns completely cover themselves, don't show any hair, because they have shaved it all off, and sleep on a bed of nails, with one eye open. Sorry, Sister Camille, but that was the Catholicism of my childhood!--goes about sniffing dirty clothes, and washing machines, while extolling about tide. ending with a group game of croquet on the convent lawn????
Croquet on the convent lawn? What ever happened to spiritual servitude? What about bodies--like mine--pain wracked from stoned floors, scrubbed in the convent????
And, of course these aren't real nuns, but actresses masquerading as such! And not doing a very good job!!!!!!!!!!!
If Christopher Durang had scripted this ad, I might have given it some credit???
But exploiting the image of nuns, to sell laundry detergent???? How low have we come as a culture?
I dread what might be next!!! Lady Gaga in a redo of "The Song Of Bernadette?" Or "The Nun's Story????????"
Blame Sally Field.
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