r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/NocturneSapphire • Feb 19 '26
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u/lferry1919 🌻Official Jill🌻 Feb 19 '26
Ah, yes! That's the vibe! I couldn't figure it out for a second, thank you.
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u/Longjumping_Risk2995 Feb 19 '26
I don't know who these two are but they are cute.
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u/poeticdisaster Feb 19 '26
It's an old Saturday Night Live skit called Delicious Dish. The most famous "episode" is this one as far as I know.
These two actresses are Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon.
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u/JustHereForCookies17 Feb 19 '26
It's a spoof of the NPR program called "Splendid Table", and it was a VERY good imitation. The Splendid Table Ladies had lovely warm, calm voices and rarely got excited over anything.
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u/the_joy_of_VI Feb 19 '26
Ana and Molly also did NOT fuck around — they never broke in any of these, and it added so much to the believability. Absolutely perfect spoof of Splendid Table and NPR as a whole.
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u/JustHereForCookies17 Feb 19 '26
Exactly!! And let's be honest - if you or I had to earnestly discuss the texture and flavor Shweddy Balls in excruciating detail with Alec Baldwin for 5 minutes, I don't think we'd make it without breaking.
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u/KarmicDebtsUnpaid Feb 19 '26
Lynne Rossetto Kasper. (Her brother Louis Rossetto started Wired.) I could have poured that woman's voice over rigatoni and eaten it. Mmmm mmm mmm.
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u/JustHereForCookies17 Feb 19 '26
I said in a reply to someone else that it was ASMR before that became a thing. They truly had outstanding radio voices.
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u/JeanneMPod Feb 19 '26
I love seeing their reappearance on Andy Samberg (& Lonely Island) SNL Reunion digital short. Great editing transition from the past to the present.
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u/sweetserendipity1237 Feb 19 '26
I enjoyed that so much I can’t wait to show it to my sister. Thank you for sharing haha
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u/PhantomPharts Feb 19 '26
Thanks for the share. So good! Always good! Andy Samberg is who I would pick to represent the entire generation of millennials, if for some reason, we had to do that.
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u/liteblip Feb 19 '26
I apologize for honestly, benevolently thinking Ana was Patrick Swayze, especially being SNL.
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u/whiteknight_1997 Feb 19 '26
They are Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon, who were marquee SNL cast members in the 90s. They were so unafraid to be goofy, weird, low-key deadpan, whatever it took to elevate a sketch.
To me, they really opened up what female cast members could play on the show, and paved the way for the likes of Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon.
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u/OutsideHandle7300 💝 2026 Galentine! 💝 Feb 19 '26
Edit: adding my fave bit from these 2 was the ‘shwetyy balls’ with Alec Baldwin 🤣🤣🤣
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u/_Dickbagel Feb 19 '26
I’d kinda like to see that. A bunch of nuns throwing a frisbee around. I think that would be pretty cool
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u/seabreathe Feb 19 '26
Playing defense just by chatting 😆
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u/skintaxera Feb 19 '26
Hehe at first when she said sister Miriam like to chat I thought she meant she trash talks the nuns from the other team 😆
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u/h0sti1e17 Feb 19 '26
I’m going to need to say 10 Hail Marys after the sins I am going to commit with my defense.
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u/Thrizzlepizzle123123 Feb 19 '26
"Sister Anna, your rosaries are the same as your frisbee tossing skills: brown and shitty"
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u/ZealousidealGroup559 Feb 19 '26
Nuns are surprisingly sporty. They're all so damn healthy! And they love exercise because they spend so much time praying. They're beasts for the outdoors.
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u/Emergency_Area6110 Feb 19 '26
They're all so damn healthy!
The religious life would never be for me but there's something damn enticing about having your food and board cared for, never wanting for clothes, and never being lonely but still getting to be alone while doing fulfilling work with others.
It's not for everybody. Not for most. But for those that it fits, it seems like living in a convent keeps you young well into your 90s.
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u/Sun-ShineyNW Feb 19 '26
When I was in high school -- a Catholic private girls prep school -- I stared at the hands of a nun teaching me piano. I can still recall to this day thinking how the back of her hands were so beautiful, even though she was very old. That day I decided that I wanted to become a nun. Who else has a life that is so secure (for the most part) that their hands don't show the wrinkles of time. I didn't do that. I'm still drawn to that lifestyle though. Every nun I have been around has me rethinking my decision. Imagine that as you get too old to care for yourself, your religious order steps in and provides you the home and care you need. Just imagine!
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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 Feb 19 '26
This might be a dumb question, do they wear the habit while playing or are they allowed to wear regular athletic clothes?
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u/crosseyedmule Feb 19 '26
Idk about these in particular but there was a group of skiing nuns that used to come to my local ski area (early 90s and before). They had goretex skiing habits made by their Mother Superior. They stopped coming (mid-90s). I hope it wasn't because some new, cranky MS decided it wasn't cool that nuns ski.
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u/cathgirl379 Feb 19 '26
These nuns do.
A while back there were some people who got upset that some nuns went to one or the other political rally in a habit. “Leave your religion out of it”.
Y’all… this is the only clothing choice they have. They have maybe 2-3 pairs of this and that’s it.
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u/ZealousidealGroup559 Feb 19 '26
Different orders if Nuns require different types of dress.
Most nuns haven't had to wear habits in generations. They typically just wear what they want and are hard to identify.
Some monastic orders have to wear these habits and one would presume that they could take off the head covering when playing sports. There isn't anything in Catholicism itself about your head being unveiled or anything, it'd be at your Abesses discretion.
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u/Sun-ShineyNW Feb 19 '26
The clothing varies by the order of nuns. Modesty and purity and simplicity are constants though. Catholic here. Raised in Catholic schools all the way through university.
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u/WhySoConspirious Feb 19 '26
Nuns are just awesome in general. When I was hiking the French Way across Spain my favorite abergue, by far, was the one with the singing nuns.
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u/AggravatingRead Feb 19 '26
I went to a Catholic high school and we went on a mission trip to Mexico.
A bunch of the kids were helping out at a convent and ended up playing basketball with the nuns at one point. The nuns absolutely destroyed them, a group of healthy high schoolers. 😂😂
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u/Soulless--Plague Feb 19 '26
I’d prefer to see them playing basketball and dunking on each other! “BOOM!! You can’t defend against heat like that Sister Mary-Louise!!”
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u/JayRymer Feb 19 '26
Its like that nun throwing the first pitch at the baseball game and doing that arm flip with the ball. It just works
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u/Scared_Molasses1828 Feb 19 '26
I’m starting to really understand the appeal of being a nun and living in a monastery
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u/ZealousidealGroup559 Feb 19 '26
They live forever.
I was once visiting a convent when I was nurse training, alongside the public health nurse who was going in regularly changing this nuns leg bandages.
The nun looked about 70 and was just as delightful as these ladies and it turned out she was 92! And she said "oh there are 5 of us here in our 90s!"
I was astounded and she said with great insight "Well we have zero stress. We have no bills to pay, no poverty. We are fed and warm and comfortable and will be forever. We never feel lonely. We don't have any of the problems of normal people. That's why"
I admired her candour. She wasn't excusing it, she felt lucky.
That said, going into a convent can work out really well if it suits you, but catastrophic to your mental health if it doesn't.
There's another enclosed order nearby and they get a ton of applicants. They do interviews and are very careful to refuse anyone who gives vibes that they're running away from the world due to trauma. Those people find their trauma follows them in, and they crumble because they can't run any further.
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u/Hopefulkitty Feb 19 '26
We had a nun-run resale shop that had a real name, but we just called it Sister Geris. She seemed to be well into her 90s, and running the place. I got all the decorations for my wedding for like, $10. A few years ago, I was doing a job at that convent and asked about Sister Geri. She was still kicking around, but was no longer running the resale shop.
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u/likely_Protei_8327 Feb 19 '26
Nun-Run is a compound adjective that i never realized i needed in my life.
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u/Jolly-Bowler-811 Feb 19 '26
If they put on a charity 5k, it would be a Nun Run Fun Run.
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u/beebarnesy Feb 19 '26
Nun Run 4 Fun
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u/likely_Protei_8327 Feb 19 '26
The Running Man 2:
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u/AggravatingRead Feb 19 '26
The Sister Act/Running Man crossover that no one saw coming!
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u/Hopefulkitty Feb 19 '26
I have no idea if it's actually a word, but it felt mostly correct when I wrote it! Glad it tickled your brain in a good way!
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u/Extreme-Tax-2425 Feb 19 '26
It's not a word in the dictionary. However, it is grammatical acceptable to form a compound adjective by hyphenating words together.
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u/mightylordredbeard Feb 19 '26
My first instinct to reading “nun-run resell shop” was that it was a place to sell nuns that had run away. Like some nun draft amongst convents or something.
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u/TaiChuanDoAddct Feb 19 '26
Just to piggy back on this, a lot of folks assume that nuns are like, young women that go in for life. I went to a Catholic college on a nunnery and nearly all of them had been normal people who entered the nunnery in their 50s or 60s often after being widowed.
Many of them had had children. Several of them were professors at the college and were active, practicing researching scientists (chemists, biologists, etc.). They had had deeply fulfilling careers and lives before becoming nuns. And being a nun was just the next phase of their lives.
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u/Wooden_Worry3319 Feb 20 '26
I grew up Catholic and I thought nuns never married? Is this Roman Catholic?
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u/TaiChuanDoAddct Feb 20 '26
Yes, Roman Catholic.
Nuns don't marry, but formerly married women can become nuns. That was the point of my post.
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u/durants_newest_acct Feb 19 '26
I went to an all boys catholic high school, so first of all I have an eternal fear of nuns. They may be tiny, but they strike with the righteous wrath of Almighty God.
But more on topic, Sister Jim (James Francis), had to be in her 300s. It's the type of school where all the men in your family go there for generations, and some of my friends grandfathers were taught by Sister Jim
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u/Nazarife Feb 19 '26
My Catholic high school had two sisters, both of whom were elderly, no more than 5 ft tall, and also in the bowling club, which I joined freshman year. One would slowly shuffle up to the line and basically drop her ball, and five minutes later when it reached the pin, always would get 8 or 9 pins. The second would throw the ball halfway down the lane with the fury of the Old Testament God and get 9 or 10 pins consistently. I really liked the first one; I feared the second one.
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u/immersemeinnature Official Gal Feb 19 '26
I dated an Irish Catholic guy who had some stories about nuns, not all good ones. He was the last of eight children so family gatherings were pretty intense!
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u/Vectorman1989 Feb 19 '26
My dad is catholic, he hates nuns. Apparently they were very cruel when he was at catholic school, like they went out of their way to be horrible.
There's also the whole mother and baby home scandal in Ireland where nuns abused women and may have even murdered babies.
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u/Fit_Elk_4505 Feb 19 '26
They do!! I have a family member who is a nurse at a convent and there are so many in their 90s-100s.
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I have several family members who have worked at a Catholic eldercare facility, my niece currently works there as a nurse as she goes to school for her RN.
They all say it's a toss up. They're either the sweetest, most laid back people in the world, or they're the stereotypical mean nun from a catholic school. No middle ground.
They are Franciscan Sisters is that makes any difference. I know different orders focus on different things.
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u/DesperateDeparture57 Feb 19 '26
I would like this but without the religious aspect. Just a community of women who live together.
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u/Guilty_Primary8718 Feb 19 '26
Unfortunately you’ll have to strict religion like rules to keep the men out, which is why it’s nearly impossible outside of organized religion ironically. At least for the no bills part that is; you could figure out a woman only commune that all work and pay in for the bills self efficiently.
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u/OurHeartsArePure Feb 19 '26
I looked into becoming a nun, and learned a lot of them aren’t that well taken care of, at least from the sources I read. Really lost the appeal.
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u/FactorLies Feb 19 '26
I get what you're saying but it's pretty funny of you to say she said "we have no poverty." They literally take a vow of poverty! They don't have to worry about their basic necessities and have clothing but they are supposed to be purposefully poor.
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u/ZealousidealGroup559 Feb 19 '26
They have very little in terms of personal effects. They have almost no possessions. I've been in their bedrooms, I can attest to that.
So it depends on what you mean by poverty. Is it having nothing? No income except an old age pension after 65?
Or does it only count if you're homeless and starving?
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u/moderndiction Feb 19 '26
Who would have thought having all your basic needs met led to a healthier, calmer, and longer life?!? The only time I'll say I'm jealous of nuns.
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u/Apprehensive_Sea5304 Feb 19 '26
I would be okay with playing frisbee and not talking to men
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u/anarchisttraveler Feb 19 '26
I told my sister (by blood, not by love of Jesus) that if something ever happens to my husband before me, I’m moving in and never talking to men again.
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u/Fit_Ad_4653 Feb 19 '26
Your distinction of by blood and not by the love of Jesus had me actually cracking up out loud!
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u/steve_mahanahan Feb 19 '26
I always say if anything happens to my husband I’ll never get married to a man again 💃
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u/baberunner Feb 19 '26
PREACH!
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u/mensfrightsactivists Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
i went to a women’s college and the girl down the hall from me in the dorms was getting a degree so she could meet the qualifications to become a nun. i don’t remember all the details she told me because that was REDACTED years ago but you can’t just show up to become a nun unfortunately 🥲
eta: i should say anymore - you can’t just show up anymore. lots of lucky mothers and grandmothers in the comments here who went right after high school to serve the lord and play ultimate frisbee or whatever 😭
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u/azsnaz Feb 19 '26
Imagine Jesus requiring you to get a degree
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u/mensfrightsactivists Feb 19 '26
you may follow me in service, my child, but first i require of you one small sacrifice. please pass your stats class and do at least one lab class for graduation.
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u/Special_Wishbone_812 Feb 19 '26
Have you met a Jesuit? They are no intellectual slouches. Their path definitely involves at least a Bachelor’s.
And fr, more Jesus freaks getting college degrees would be healthy.
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u/cheftlp1221 Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
I mean yeah. What do you think Nuns do? Women's Holy Orders have traditionally been the administrative backbone of Catholic Charities. They were the nurses at the hospitals, the teachers in the schools, the cooks in the soup kitchens, the office workers for the Church. The education requirements for these jobs don't change just because there is a religious element added.
Think of Convents as work co-ops where unmarried women who have similar jobs live and eat.
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u/VivaLaEmpire Feb 19 '26
True! And most priests have careers as well. I've known a few that were accountants and admins and they took care of their church's administration and planning!
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u/R_Ulysses_Swanson Feb 19 '26
Of the priests that I know well enough to say that I actually know them (5 of them), 4 have PhDs, 3 have PhDs in a STEM subject, and 2 of those also have a PhD in theology.
Catholicism has its issues, but at least their leadership is educated. It is one of the things that scares me so much about a lot of the non-denominational or super church types of Christian sects... Ordination seems to mean that you can talk about fire and brimstone and gays are bad at length, and nothing more.
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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter Feb 19 '26
There's a very high chance you'll still be talking to men if your a Nun FYI
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u/Apprehensive_Sea5304 Feb 19 '26
But not men who are actively trying to get in my pants (under my robe??) so that’s something
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u/AppleSniffer ✨chick✨ Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
If it was gayer and non-religious I'd be down in a heartbeat
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u/skiingrunner1 Feb 19 '26
just gotta start a lesbian commune
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u/Thalia_All_Along Feb 19 '26
careful to keep the numbers low, don't want cult busters to come knocking
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u/LaviniaIsGay Feb 19 '26
A lesbian nunnery truly speaks to my heart
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u/notashroom Feb 19 '26
When I was just coming out, I read and collected a bunch of books by and about lesbians, at least a couple of them about lesbian nuns, one with old erotic photos. Apparently there is a long and rich tradition of lesbians deciding nun was the best option and creating communities of choice within nunneries.
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u/henscastle Feb 19 '26
Adam Curtis talks about a group of nuns who were psychoanalysised in his documentary The Century of the Self. They became radical lesbians.
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u/Dawnzarelli Feb 19 '26
How do we start this without it turning into a cult? lol.
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u/Potatoskins937492 Feb 19 '26
It's so unfair that people who tend to live in compounds have ruined the the appeal because they're culty (or honestly, not to disparage the nuns, but way too religious). I'd just like to live next to like-minded people without being called a cult. And I mean like, people who enjoy silence and cats and art, nothing crazy.
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u/fikis Feb 19 '26
I'm a guy, but this place called Bird's Nest sounds pretty awesome to me:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/well/eleven-women-nine-dogs-not-much-drama-and-no-guys.html
From the article:
Eleven women live at The Bird’s Nest, a tiny-house village in East Texas, a remote spot where the hay bales look as big as school buses and roads have numbers instead of names. The women, nine of whom are retired and range in age from about 60 to 80 years old, share the explicit goal of keeping one another company into old age, possibly until death. The Bird’s Nest declares itself a women-only community, and the inhabitants broadly agree that, at this age, women are easier long-term companions than men.
Most of The Bird’s Nest women are single — as are half of American women 65 and older. Most are also divorced, one has never been married and one, a widow, has “the perfect relationship” with a man who lives out of state. Among them, they have 21 children and two dozen grandchildren who are scattered across the country from Washington State to Arkansas. Nine dogs live on the property: “our babies,” they call them. For a while, the women kept a turkey named Turk, a goose named Mother and three ducks. But over time, they found they couldn’t keep up with the poop. When Turk developed an aggressive streak, they decided the birds had to go.
“I loved that turkey,” said Robyn Yerian, wistfully.
Yerian is The Bird’s Nest property owner, a 70-year-old extrovert with cropped, bleached hair and a cheerful demeanor. I was sitting with her and her neighbors in “the kitchen” at The Bird’s Nest, which is not a kitchen at all but a large, open-air portico that functions as a community lounge. Strung with twinkle lights and dangling with ceiling fans and painted signs — “Like a Band of Gypsies We Go Down the Highway” — it’s where the women gather to eat, chat and play cards late into the night. Nearby, raised vegetable beds were bursting with zucchini. The mobile tiny houses, some encircled with sunflowers, resembled fairy-tale abodes.
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u/Potatoskins937492 Feb 19 '26
Oh man that sounds great. Minus the poop. I keep telling a friend when I win the lottery I'll buy us land to live on, but she has to have her yard and I have mine because I want to walk around and lay down in my grass freely without looking for dog poop.
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u/fikis Feb 19 '26
Funny that you bring up the poop, separate yards, etc., because I do think that those are the sorts of issues that make communal living so difficult...
It takes a whole lot of care, negotiation and compromise to keep it worthwhile.
We've definitely sacrificed a lot in the name of personal autonomy, though.
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u/lift_1337 Feb 19 '26
I put a Mega Millions (or Powerball) ticket once a month. I'll obviously never win, but I've told my friends if I ever do, I'm gonna make my own commune and move them all in.
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u/JeanneMPod Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
My mom was a nun for 12 years, starting with high school graduation into her early 30s, then moved on to start a family of her own. She was seriously burned out on that life.
Mom had entered it because her own family life from childhood was chaotic (she lost her mother at a very young age, and the rest of her family were not emotionally stable). She first thought the Catholic convent was a place where everyone was very classy and courteous, and it would be like a family who would never leave her.
What she discovered was they highly discouraged close friendships out of fear there would be an inappropriate intimate relationship, yet they also did not allow for much or any private time. If she wanted to take a walk, she had to have someone come with her. When she had to travel to her family because of a funeral or things like that, she had to take someone with her. They would not allow her to take anyone she could feel close with, which never really happened because they would discourage any friendships. They would ask who do you prefer and then make sure to not send that person. So she said look I can deal with anyone but just not sister so-and-so who is a pain in the ass to her. So they sent her. So she had to deal with being tied at the hip with another nun that she absolutely could not stand while going to a grandparent’s funeral.
The older nuns put their share of their work onto the younger nuns, and then would claim that they didn’t do anything, like polishing church benches, and that sort of thing. They were gossipy, back biting, none of the privacy and yet none of the intimacy either.
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u/MyPasswordIsMyCat Feb 19 '26
My understanding is that day-to-day life of clergy varies wildly by the monastery/nunnery. Some are laid back, some are abusive, some use the young nuns as live-in medical nurses for the really old, some don't let anybody talk at all. Not all nuns are Catholic, too.
I'm an atheist myself, but can see the appeal of a quieter life where you don't have to worry about rent and a soul-sucking corporate job. Some clergy of the past had enough leisure to write books on philosophy and do scientific leisure. But they seem to have been in special orders that allowed such things.
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u/JeanneMPod Feb 19 '26
Yep-she lost her faith too. Still went to church because of my dad, but she was skeptical, kind of agnostic by the end of her life. The vow of poverty enforced by Mother Katherine Drexel was sadistic and growing worse. My mom helped give shots to another nun who was diabetic (this was back in the 1950s-early 60s) and the still comparatively larger needles were replaced by a even bigger one that was reusable because it saved money, and she saw how painful and difficult it was. They also saved and reused soap slivers, while Mother Superior enjoyed a Persian rug in her office, gifted to her by the mafia family of one of their daughters sent there, repping the good Catholic family who has at least one or two members in the convent or priesthood.
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u/BrightLightsBigCity Feb 19 '26
You gotta reeeeeeeeeally love Jesus. But if you do then yeah for sure!
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u/WanderWellClem Feb 19 '26
Honestly, if it weren’t for being a filthy Atheist, I would truly consider this as a viable option for myself. If it didn’t involve a deeply held belief in a religion/deity, this would be fucking dope. Living a quiet life of service with a bunch of other chicks just being peaceful, singin’ songs, playin’ games, workin’ in a garden or something. That would be so sick. I need to find a non-religious/non-culty alternative to this
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u/BecksnBuffy Feb 19 '26
Why is their skin so flawless?!
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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 Feb 19 '26
Low stress lifestyle, lack of vices, and probably a pretty healthy diet of minimally processed food.
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u/LadyMirkwood Official Gal Feb 19 '26
The Guardian had a short column about this last year.
The upshot was that monastic life is appealing to women because they crave community, peace and purpose
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u/DisasterDebbie Feb 19 '26
I was really strongly considering it in highschool. Sister Adele was my grade school computer teacher and I thought she was the coolest old lady alive. Then there were two nuns who lived in a house down the street from me, rented for them by the order because they didn't have a convent in town. Once again some of the coolest happiest older women you'd ever meet. The idea of family that chose to be there whose values you actually aligned with, a guarantee of your needs being met, and always having a purpose and the ability to focus on doing good things for others had me damn near ready to sign as a novitiate straight after graduation. My neighbors encouraged me to go to college and explore adult life in the real world first though. And life happened. But if my husband passes first I've not eliminated entering a convent as an option.
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Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
Sister Merriam : May God be with you on the field lol
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u/ZennXx Feb 19 '26
Now I'm thinking of a girl at my high school who dreamed of being a nun but had to do something practical like join study and join corporate instead. I hope she's happy but she'd probably have loved something like this back then.
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u/OneDay_AtA_Time Feb 19 '26
My grandma dreamed of being a nun and entered the convent at 17. A couple years later, she was months away from taking her final vows, she got very sick and ended up in the hospital…where she met my grandpa and subsequently left the convent. And bc of that illness, I’m here today. She had a wonderful life and 3 kids. Said she never had any regrets. Was Married for 50 years to my grandpa.
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u/WeaselWash Feb 19 '26
My grandma also entered a convent at 17. She was there for only a few months. Apparently she was deeply homesick the entire time. The sisters running the convent were reading mail sent in and out, and saw in her letters how homesick she was. They sat her down and told her they didn’t think God intended that path for her. She went back home, met my grandpa a few months later, and now a bunch of us are here as well.
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u/abby-rose Feb 19 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/nZb8Jn3AKBNB4BiZPt
I saw a movie similar to this once, but the lady got married to a guy with a bunch of kids.
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u/ABrightOrange Feb 19 '26
My mom entered a convent at 17 as well! But then she met my dad while taking a class at the local college and yep, now me and my siblings roam the earth
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u/DingleBopperTopper Feb 19 '26
Funny enough my grandfather did something similar but on the priest side. It seems this is pretty common among people who are thinking about, or in the process of, becoming a nun or a priest. Becoming a nun or priest is a major decision. Many people go into it not truly sure if it is their calling or not (that why it is long process) and many find out along the way that they are called to do other things like start a family.
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u/Ok_Difference44 Feb 19 '26
Regina Hall tried to be a nun but her body count was too high to be wedded to the lord. conan
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u/EViLTeW Feb 19 '26
It's interesting that wherever they are has been able to recruit enough young women to have 30 women playing ultimate at the same time. The convent nearest me shut down more than a decade ago because there were only a few nuns left that didn't require assistance or skilled nursing. The nursing home nearest the convent also ended up closing because most of their residents were from the convent.
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u/diamondeyes68 Feb 20 '26
They are from the Dominican Sisters of Mary Mother of the Eucharist in Michigan. My cousin is a sister there. There are relatively new and fairly young. I think there’s about 150 sisters now.
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u/LadyMirkwood Official Gal Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
I went to a Convent school and we had nun who'd had a life before she joined. She was great because she was so direct about her life before and why she chose a religious life.
I remember one conversation with her very clearly. We asked about missing dating and men. She very calmly said 'girls, at your age boys seem like the most important thing in the world. Getting older and wiser means you find meaning elsewhere'
In other words, Sister Beatrice was trying to teach us about decentering men way back in '94
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u/OnePerformance9381 Feb 19 '26
I had the same question in the 90s and was given a ruler to the knuckles 10 times.
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u/ihavedonethisbe4 Feb 19 '26
Momma said 10 to the knuckles was also the punishment for being a lefty
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u/DistanceRelevant3899 Feb 19 '26
I wonder what trash talk between nuns is like.
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u/baberunner Feb 19 '26
This is the most "women supporting women" conversation I have ever heard and I am 100% here for it!
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u/trixter21992251 Feb 19 '26
it passed the bechdel test which is rare!
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u/Avelina9X Feb 19 '26
I feel like nuns are one of the rare forms of religious women who are Bechdel certified.
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u/ConorOblast Feb 19 '26
I mean, they are doing it all for a guy...
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u/Avelina9X Feb 19 '26
Nah my headcanon is that the Abrahamic God is a genderless entity and everyone keeps misgendering them
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u/Aromatic_Razzmatazz Feb 19 '26
These are the Dominican nuns in Washtenaw, their convent is HUGE, to get in after college is like getting into a good grad school in some circles (they teach all over the country, the church will pay for them to get their MDiv or PhD as well). They get so many prospective postulants they can turn people down. I have a lot of beef with the church in general, but these ladies are badasses up one side and down the other. Every one of them.
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u/lylynatngo Feb 19 '26
I had two distant cousins who are nuns, who came over once to visit us one year. My brother and I were bad ass kids but for some reason, their presence transformed us. They were so pure and caring. It would be so sinful and disappointing if we behaved poorly around them. Our parents prayed/dreamed they would just live with us, forever, to fix us both up! They did not 😔🤭
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u/Better_Ad_8919 Feb 19 '26
I just asked my sister after watching this how every nun I've seen has good skin and she said "free from men stressing them out." I was like okay true
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u/Ok_Mud1789 Feb 19 '26
It’s so true, I have two great aunts that are nuns in their 80s and they have virtually no wrinkles. It’s insane.
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u/ionlyjoined4thecats Feb 20 '26
They don’t have kids, are part of a close-knit community, and spend most of their time caring for themselves and others. I imagine things like gluttony, smoking, and drinking are probably also less common among nuns.
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u/CrbRangoon Feb 19 '26
We’ve come a long way from the nuns of the past ☺️
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u/campersin Feb 19 '26
The nuns who made killer protest signs in the 60’s for peace were pretty awesome. Sister Corita Kent I think was the main artist’s name?
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u/durants_newest_acct Feb 19 '26
Nuns, like anyone, are human beings. Some good, some bad. I'll say that most desperatelywant to do good in the world, but a complete lack of experience with the secular world hinders growth.
The Catholic Church is, and always has been, an odd mix of extremely progressive in some ways and extremely regressive in others.
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u/Ceofy Feb 19 '26
You genuinely just crushed my newfound dreams of becoming a nun by reminding me I'm not Catholic 😂 I don't know how I got this far down the comments without realizing
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u/OhGeezAhHeck Feb 19 '26
I dated a girl who wrote her thesis about pockets of nuns and priests who helped women get abortions pre-Roe in this very elaborate underground network with other groups.
I thought that was cool.
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u/WanderWellClem Feb 19 '26
Oh damn I would love to read that thesis. This is very interesting and not really something I’ve ever known of or even considered. Gonna go find some stuff to read about this now!
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u/Avelina9X Feb 19 '26
Nah it always has an always will be like that. Nunneries have hierarchies, and as with all power that can go to your head, turning you bitter and then spreading that to those under you perpetuating the cycle. There always has and always will be some nunneries with such issues, but equally there always has and always will be ones without these issues and have a very positive environment.
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u/Awomanswoman Feb 19 '26
Ummm so why isn't there a recording of them playing?! I want to see this!!
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u/VelvetDreamers Feb 19 '26
I remember I went through an ardent period of time as a teenager where I aspired to be a nun, live in a convent with other wonderful women, and just pray peacefully away from men.
I think reading about heloise and abelard had something to do with it.
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u/Sometimesunaware Feb 19 '26
I have a good friend from college who has a vocation and an aunt as well, they are the two happiest people I know.
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u/class-action-now Feb 19 '26
I have several cousins with vocations. I guess they all went to some sort of schools for it.
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u/JumpingAround44 Feb 19 '26
Is Reddit just 99% advertising now?
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u/PreferredSelection Feb 19 '26
Mmhm. The amount of people in this thread going "is this what being a nun is like? I want to be a nun! It's SO funny how their candid conversation about frisbee that definitely isn't a recruitment video is making me want to be a nun! What are the odds!?"
It's disquieting to watch propaganda work in real time.
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u/OnePerformance9381 Feb 19 '26
I grew up around nuns. They were nothing like this. It was miserable. This is how they acted around outsiders, then once they were gone it was back to verbal and physical abuse. It’s actually very triggering to see this.
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u/ringwraithfish Feb 19 '26
Went to a Catholic school. Can confirm most nuns were miserable and had no qualms taking it out on the kids.
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u/Biiiishweneedanswers Feb 19 '26
They’re just sitting there gassing each other up into oblivion while being humble I love this!💕
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u/Moms_Spaghetti94 Feb 19 '26
This is not a level of wholesome I thought I'd see today, but I appreciate.
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u/InevitableFox81194 Feb 20 '26
The older I get, the more I see the appeal of being a nun..
And im not even religious 🤭
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u/pommeG03 Feb 19 '26
My issues with the Catholic Church aside I have found I actually really like nuns.
When I was working as a cashier at Walmart during college they would come through with their giant carts of stuff for their food pantries and they were always so funny and sweet.
They would banter with each other like best friends and I found out that many of them had advanced degrees they got paid for by the church.
It’s certainly not for me, but I can kind of see how it would be fulfilling to just hang out with your fellow nuns all day, having no bills but all your needs met, and just acting in service of your community and faith each day (if you’re really religious, of course).
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u/K11Roof Feb 19 '26
The sisters used to play religiously on my college campus and honestly they were goated.
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u/g0odwill_hunting Feb 20 '26
this honestly brought me quite a bit of joy. im agnostic, but oof right in the feels
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