>"...the symbolism of a woman stretching out her hand in a desire for Communion, only to be degraded, dictated to, and sent away empty seemed like an apt ritualization of our experience."

So sad.  So true.  To complain about a lack of vocations and the numbers of women walking away is rank hypocrisy from a Church that treats the "other" sex like lesser beings in whom God has no real interest and  with whom he would rather avoid contact.