tikkunolamorgtfo:

returnofthejudai:

Jewish women are REALLY going to bat for Jewish men today over that Washington Post piece on twitter and I’d like to voice my appreciation, especially to Mara Wilson, Helen Rosner and Talia Lavin. 

They are and it’s fantastic, however—I will say that the article was also incredibly anti-semisogynistic. Between the author painting herself as this beautiful, blonde, pearl-wearing, WASP goddess figure, and her tearing apart of Jewish mothers, it’s pretty clear that this isn’t just attack on Jewish men, but Jewish women, as well. 

Because, you know, if Jewish men weren’t so weak-willed, they wouldn’t allow their overbearing mothers to drive them into the arms of those undesirable frizzy-and-dark-haired shrews who could never be white sophisticated enough to pull off something as elegant as a string of pearls. Because Jewish women are just so grubby and awful and obviously nobody would outright choose to marry one of us over a pert, pretty, bacon martini-sipping, old-money princess. OBVIOUSLY. 

And haha this is just like Sex and City, nevermind that Carrie Bradshaw was played by a Jewish woman who has been ridiculed for her Semitic looks nigh on three decades now, because who has time to pay attention to which actresses are IRL Jewish women? Ew!