Females in todays society

Originally posted by bbarr
But who would want to shag her?

She's dead dude...

Originally posted by shavixmir
She's dead dude...

Not much of a role model then, 'eh? Being dead and all...

Originally posted by whodey
Mother Theresa. Who can say anything bad about her?

Was she a woman? 😲

Originally posted by whodey
Mother Theresa. Who can say anything bad about her?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Theresa

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, OM (August 27, 1910 — September 5, 1997) was a Macedonian-born Indian Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity. Her work among the poverty-stricken of Kolkata (Calcutta) made her one of the world's most famous people, and she was beatified by Pope John Paul II in October 2003. Hence, she may be properly called Blessed Teresa by Catholics.

Teresa was awarded the Templeton Prize in 1973, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna in 1980.In 1971, she was awarded the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize. She was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985. Teresa was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States in 1996 (one of only six). She was the first and only person to be featured on an Indian postage stamp while still alive. Her supporters sometimes referred to her as the "Angel of Mercy" and "Saint of the Gutter."

Teresa was also known for her books about Christian spirituality and prayer, some of which were written together with her close friend Frère Roger.

While Teresa was considered the embodiment of a "living saint," some have leveled strong criticisms, and raised questions about her public statements, working practices, political connections, and the funding of her charity.

here are the "controversys":

An Indian-born writer living in Britain, Dr. Aroup Chatterjee, who had briefly worked in one of Mother Teresa's homes, began investigations into the finances and other practices of her order. In November 1992, a British journalist, Christopher Hitchens, published an article in The Nation entitled "The Ghoul of Calcutta" criticizing Mother Teresa. In 1994, Hitchens and British journalist Tariq Ali produced a critical TV documentary for the UK's Channel 4 called Hell's Angel, which was based on Chatterjee's work. Although he has never disputed the documentary's conclusions, Chatterjee criticized what he called the "sensationalist" approach of the film.

The next year, Hitchens published The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, which repeated many of the accusations levied in the documentary. Chatterjee himself published The Final Verdict in 2003, a less polemic work than those of Hitchens and Ali, but equally critical of Teresa's operations.

Neither Mother Teresa nor the Vatican has ever revealed how much money her order received, nor what it was spent on; estimates range into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Hitchens further alleged that Mother Teresa lied to donors about what the money was going to be used for. Donors, he says, were told that the money went to aid and the construction of healthcare facilities in India and elsewhere. Evidence points to it instead being spent largely on missionary work and that Mother Teresa was actually the controller of the funds. No hospitals were ever built.

Hitchens also appeared prominently in a second season episode of Penn & Teller's Showtime series Bullshit! called Holier Than Thou, which targeted Mother Teresa's religious hypocrisy (Mahatma Gandhi and the Dalai Lama were also featured). Hitchens reiterated his claims about her during his interview: "she was a fraud, a fanatic, and a fundamentalist... corrupt, cynical, nasty and cruel." Hitchens further alleged that while she and her order had the money to help save lives, culled mostly by donations from the wealthy, victims of disease got no medical care and that if you went to Calcutta, you'd have perhaps a fifteen percent chance of seeing her because she was in the company of the powerful and wealthy. He stated similar allegations in a 2002 interview for the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley. [1]

In addition to Hitchens and Chatterjee, a former nun-turned-comedienne named Kelli Dunham, who worked with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity under the name Sister Mercy, likewise debunked Mother Teresa's public image as a living saint. In one scene, Dunham is lighting candles in a Catholic church joking that she was "covering my soul for talking shit about Mother Teresa."

Baptisms of the dying
Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to baptize dying patients, without regard to the individual's religion. In a speech at the Scripps Clinic in California in January 1992, she said: "Something very beautiful... not one has died without receiving the special ticket for St. Peter, as we call it. We call baptism 'a ticket for St. Peter.' We ask the person, do you want a blessing by which your sins will be forgiven and you receive God? They have never refused. So 29,000 have died in that one house [in Kalighat] from the time we began in 1952."

Critics have argued that patients were not provided sufficient information to make an informed decision about whether they wanted to be baptized and the theological significance of a Catholic baptism. Since her patients were predominantly Hindus and Muslims, the baptisms would have been directly counter to their own religious beliefs; since their idea of God is vastly different from the Catholic God, the question "do you want to receive a blessing..." would be misleading without the qualifier that the God in question was the Christian God. [citation needed]

Simon Leys, one of Mother Teresa's defenders, has argued that baptisms are either soul-saving or harmless. Simon Leys, in a letter to the New York Review of Books, wrote: "Either you believe in the supernatural effect of this gesture — and then you should dearly wish for it. Or you do not believe in it, and the gesture is as innocent and well-meaningly innocuous as chasing a fly away with a wave of the hand." This view, however, does not take into account the possibility that one could believe that participating in a baptism - a religious ceremony from a faith other than one's own - is a sin.

Motivation of charitable activities
Christopher Hitchens described Mother Teresa's organization as a cult which promoted suffering and did not help those in need. In Hitchens' interpretation, Teresa's own words on poverty proved that "her intention was not to help people." He quoted Teresa's words at a 1981 press conference in which she was asked: "Do you teach the poor to endure their lot?" She replied: "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people."

Chatterjee added that the public image of Mother Teresa as a "helper of the poor" was misleading, and that only a few hundred people are served by even the largest of the homes. According to a Stern magazine report about Mother Teresa, the (Protestant) Assembly of God charity serves 18,000 meals daily in Calcutta (now called Kolkata), many more than all the Mission of Charity homes together.

Chatterjee alleged that many operations of the order engage in no charitable activity at all but instead use their funds for missionary work. He stated, for example, that none of the eight facilities that the Missionaries of Charity run in Papua New Guinea have any residents in them, being purely for the purpose of converting local people to Catholicism. Some defenders of the order argue that missionary activity — already declared in the name of the order — was a central part of Teresa's calling.

Quality of medical care
Many of Teresa's donors were evidently under the impression that their money was being used to build hospitals[citation needed]. In 1991, Dr. Robin Fox, then editor of the British medical journal The Lancet, visited the Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and described the medical care the patients received as "haphazard". He observed that sisters and volunteers, some of whom had no medical knowledge, had to make decisions about patient care, because of the lack of doctors in the hospice. Dr. Fox specifically held Teresa responsible for conditions in this home, and observed that her order did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment.

Fox conceded that the regimen he observed included cleanliness, the tending of wounds and sores, and kindness, but he noted that the sisters' approach to managing pain was "disturbingly lacking". The formulary at the facility Fox visited lacked strong analgesics which he felt clearly separated Mother Teresa's approach from the hospice movement. Fox also wrote that needles were rinsed with warm water, which left them inadequately sterilised, and the facility did not isolate patients with tuberculosis. There have been a series of other reports documenting inattention to medical care in the order's facilities. Similar points of view have also been expressed by some former volunteers who worked for Teresa's order. Mother Teresa herself referred to the facilities as "Houses of the Dying".

In contrast to the conditions at her homes, Mother Teresa sought medical treatment for herself at renowned medical clinics in the United States, Europe, and India, drawing charges of hypocrisy from Hitchens.

Destination of donations
Susan Shields, a former nun of Mother Teresa's order, alleged that Teresa refused to authorize the purchase of medical equipment, and that donated money was instead transferred to the Vatican Bank for general use, even if it was specifically earmarked for charitable purposes[citation needed]. See Missionaries of Charity for a detailed discussion of these allegations. According to Chatterjee, other charitable organizations in India publish their accounts, but Mother Teresa always refused to do so except where she was required to by law.

Attitude toward repressive political leaders
Teresa made some public statements regarding political leaders that have pr...