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amother
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Sun, Mar 02 2014, 2:55 am
good thing I don't have girls, because it would give me an inspiration for some wicked satire. I think for Purim I'd at least fantasize about dressing them up shawls and blurred face masks and send them to these neighborhoods. Anon because I'm a sniper satirist.
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mimivan
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Sun, Mar 02 2014, 2:59 am
Next they'll twirl their graggers at any mention of Esther in the Megillah... because it isn't modest.
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DrMom
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Sun, Mar 02 2014, 3:05 am
mimivan wrote: | Next they'll twirl their graggers at any mention of Esther in the Megillah... because it isn't modest. |
In his *previous* elementary school, my son received an richly illustrated Megillat Esther scroll (a paper pretend scroll; not a claf, obviously) --- with pictures of Queen Esther's face conspicuously absent.
Either she wasn't shown at all, or she was shown from behind, or someone's hand was raised in such a way that it just so happened to block her face.
Maybe someone will petition to rename it Megillat Mordechai.
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mimivan
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Sun, Mar 02 2014, 3:39 am
DrMom wrote: | In his *previous* elementary school, my son received an richly illustrated Megillat Esther scroll (a paper pretend scroll; not a claf, obviously) --- with pictures of Queen Esther's face conspicuously absent.
Either she wasn't shown at all, or she was shown from behind, or someone's hand was raised in such a way that it just so happened to block her face.
Maybe someone will petition to rename it Megillat Mordechai. |
kind of defeats the purpose if they could still see her body...oops...don't want to give them any ideas...burkah babe Esther?
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Debbie
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Sun, Mar 02 2014, 4:14 am
This is not so much an issue of a blurred face but in a Jewish advertising publication in London there was an advert for Purim costumes,it showed a few children and at the back was a girl of about 6 or 7 years old and in front of her was a boy with his arm stretched out so that most of the girls face was blocked from view;a few pages further was another Purim advert showing kids in costumes but this one showed a boy wearing a dress;maybe it's just me but I don't get why it's not okay to show the face of a little girl but it is okay to show a picture of a similar aged boy in a pretty dress.
Perhaps I'm missing something!
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tigerwife
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Sun, Mar 02 2014, 4:33 am
Do people really get offended from this? I don't think the publishers think less of females at all, rather they are trying to push some extreme level of tznius, which is more of a protection reason.
I'm not defending the practice, I'm explaining the motive. Manikins would be a classier way for them to do this, but I guess the costumes look better on a live model.
I really don't find it offensive. Maybe unprofessional.
I find it more offensive when women are used wrongly in random ads- and yes, that s-xy woman, will definitely sell more cars. Or power drills. Or paint. Barf.
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