3081

Extremist ultra-Orthodox Jews spit and curse an eight-year-old girl for not being modest when walking to her religious Jewish girls’ school.

Can someone name a religion that doesn’t impose restrictions on women? It seems like these religions are saying that women should be modest as not to tempt men. Isn’t that men’s problem for being weak?

3082

The road to hell is paved with vaginas.

3083

A slippery slope.

3084

You’re thinking of the desert tribe religions. Jew, Christian, and Muslim.

3085

Men make the rules. They get to determine who’s at fault.

This is also why I shake my head when people (of ALL religions) strictly adhere to the mandates of essentially primitive people.

3086

There’s a bit more at play here: Beit Shemesh was originally a very diverse city with a large American Jewish enclave that was largely liberal/secular (even the religious residents were pretty chill in comparison to religious Israelis). Then Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) started moving in en masse, elected their own Mayor who funded more Haredi expansion and started demanding that everyone follow Haredi rules such as keeping women barefoot, hidden and pregnant, and the original residents were not terribly happy to wake up in a medieval theocracy.

The whole thing has become a flashpoint for anti-Haredi sentiment amongst Israelis at large, given that there have been several high-profile incidents of Haredi acting like jerks.

3087

I LOL’d

3088

Interesting use of the word Anglo.

3089

Standard Israeli English. Short for Anglo-Saxon, which also gets used.

3090

But they don’t mean Anglo-Saxon, they mean native English speaker.

3091

Yeah-anglophone.
What’s so strange about that?

3092

Because we don’t shorten anglophone into Anglo in the US.

3093

Unless you’re calling someone an anglo pendejo.

3094

Doubtful. It’s a cultural, ethnic identifier in the the US, not language. The Hispanic dude calling you an Anglo pendejo probably speaks English as his mother tongue.

3095

Jesus?

3096

I know, I get it. But that’s the word they use. It’s also not necessarily a language thing; it’s a cultural thing – two of my nephews are native English speakers, but would never be called Anglos. Same with my first wife.

3097

Bislam - the religion I made up for my wife where I have to follow her ten paces behind every Saturday as we go shopping at Target, so she can pivot to look at things without feeling like I am hovering has relatively few restrictions on women. Lying about which shoes go best with which skirt is tantamount to heresy. In contrast with Judaism, where a woman’s menses is observed by locking her in a closet and screaming the word “dirty,” over and over again until the moon relinquishes control of her moods and nether regions, Bislam requires back massages, sympathy, and surprise pizza parties. This period is called “Ladytime,” and in early years was celebrated with blowjobs and heating pads. There is no recorded writing or account of why blowjobs ceased to be a part of Ladytime festivities, but it is believed by scholars to been associated the time Bislam’s only practitioner failed to make sure something did not have onions on it, and had the audacity to suggest the High Priestess just man up and scrape them off.

Viking Badassery - Women who could not grow beards, and children who could not grow beards were treated similarly, in that they were trained in archery and pig husbandry in an effort to protect them from rape by the Lapp peoples, who despite looking cuddly, were selfish lovers. Women who were able to grow beards were afforded all the same rights as men in their culture, namely, the right of the firstborn to hold land estates and, upon each Spring thaw, the right to armwrestle for a seat on a rape boat bound for England so that they might force themselves upon the more slightly built and feces covered residents of the British Isles. Though it was bidden by Thor according to the rule of Sky, anthropologists believe that the repeated sending of beautiful Norwegians to sleep with everyone and everything they could was not a mission of conquest, but of mercy, as English people were already becoming quite unattractive. This theory is supported by the slow descent into ratperson seen in portraits of the British Royal family over the centuries following the termination of these Norwegian party boats. A second, competing theory is that the people who would be the British were already notorious whiners, and the Viking sexual presence was at the behest of early Irishmen and their wizards who were sick of fielding complaints regarding regional weather patterns. This is of course, the nature of the saying, “Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite.” Roughly translated, it means, “I shall now give you this thing about which to do a crying.”

3098

Wait. If it doesn’t mean anglophone, what does it mean?

3099

It sort of does, sort of doesn’t. There are a set of cultural things that go into it – anglos are more likely to be right-wing, more likely to be religious, mostly university-educated. It carries a little bit of a feeling that they don’t want to assimilate; you’d be less likely to call someone an anglo if he hangs around mostly with native Israelis and speaks Hebrew, even if it’s a very American-accented Hebrew.

3100

Your grasp and understanding of Judaism is astounding.