On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:43 PM, shempmcgurk <shempmcg...@netscape.net> wrote: >> For those who aren't familiar with Mexican boys towns, they have >> nothing to do with Father Flannagan. > > > ...uh, but everything to do with other Catholic priests...one's with, > shall we say, proclivities other than helping out wayward boys? Is > that what you're driving at?
Actually, it's the feeeelthy gringos who make boys towns red light horse shoes in the dust. The traditional Mexican boys towns are more of a macho get away (like Mexican males need to get away, since they're so absent from the house and child rearing already). It is required to have Christmas lights up all the time and to have a combination bar and lounge area and of course a sort of motel in the back of each building with a bar. But the fact is, this is where Mexican men go to blow money, mostly on drink and large tips to the bartender. Yes, strange is available but why go there? It's expected that every Mexican male with a wife or girlfriend will have at least two affairs he's cheating with. A man wouldn't be a man otherwise. AFAIK the behaviors exhibited by the clergy (Catholic and Baptist) in the US are not practiced by clergy south of the border. But then there are very definitely things that are /not/ spoken about in Macholand.
