Monday, September 22, 2008

Social-issues comment of the day

From this post by Harry Maryles:

"Reb Harry, I'm hardly a feminist but when some chareidim appear to justify the physical attack on Mrs. Shear [for refusing to move to the back of a bus that was not officially designated a separate-seating bus] , the home invasion and beating of that formerly chareidi divorcée in Jerusalem, the spraying of bleach and acid on women for wearing "untznius" clothing [in one case, a 14-year-old girl was sprayed in the eyes with bleach for wearing modestly-loose pants and a short-sleeved tee-shirt], concert bans to prevent sexual intermingling, and now, a Kremlinesque erasure of women from photographs, storefronts [see DovBear's posts about the wig store boycotted for displaying headshots of modestly-dressed bewigged women in its window] and newspapers, I have to conclude that many in the chareidi community have some serious issues with women.

I don't think that chareidiville is necessarily misogynist, since little boys [see the many posts decrying child sexual abuse in yeshivot and Jewish camps] and critical thinkers [see the ban against Rabbi Slifkin's Torah and science books] are also singled out for abuse. Including molestation it's interesting how so many of the pathologies are clustered around the issue of sex.
Bozoer Rebbe Homepage 09.22.08 - 11:39 am #

Related post (in which you'll find links to posts or articles concerning some of the incidents or issues mentioned above).

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you live in America, you get desensitized to human flesh, and it's not a big deal. The less exposed you are to it, the more it IS a big deal... they have created a culture of sexual perversion in their over-obsession with modesty.

Until becoming BT, I never knew adults who seemed to find young teenagers (13 - 15) sexually attractive, barring the occasional "mature" looking 15 year old... Now I find plenty of people who think that it's normal to be aroused by a 14 year old in shorts at the mall.

Tue Sep 23, 02:50:00 PM 2008  

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