I know many will refuse to believe this but I actually have (used to have?) Roman Catholic friends. No, I wouldn’t normally talk this way about Mary in front of them. If you are perceived as insulting someon’s mother it is pretty hard to get them to like you. I would avoid that. Keep in mind that, from my own point of view, I’m vindicating Mary from false charges of sexual perversion.
But my post had other considerations in mind. When I witness RC converts and would-be converts acting like this whole pack of dualistic myths are credible and worse “pious to believe,” I think it is appropriate to break the spell. There is no substance to the case here: high-sounding speech is the argument.
As far as “locker-room” language is concerned, all I can say is that some Christians must have gone to High School with a really prissy gym class.
Unfortunately, the substance of some the arguments used against you was hot wind and a pinch of prig overspiced with a pompous attitude. Very unconvincing.
Thank you for your comments on Mary. Very helpful. I would of course take it the rest of the way, to the theological level rather than the merely legal: if Mary and Joseph had a celibate marriage, they were telling an implicit lie about how Christ relates to the church, as well as about the intra-Trinitarian life. Truly an abomination!