Jewish Girls Are Easy
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No, I’m not planning to prove that point any time but hear me out. A few things just came together in my mind and I wanted to share them with you.
In addition to my duties at Mediaite, I appear on The Jewish Channel as Forward editor Jane Eisner’s co-host for The Salon, a half-hour program about issues that are of interest to Jewish women. On the last episode we welcomed comedian Judy Gold, filmmaker Lacey Schwartz, and Haddassah President Nancy Falchuk for a spirited and fun discussion. Here’s a part of it:
JUDY GOLD: I was talking to a 25-year old guy last night, who told me that he and his friends love to pick up Jewish women.
RACHEL: Do you have his number?
JUDY: You don’t want it. But, that is the hip, cool thing to do.
NANCY: Why?
JUDY: Well, apparently they don’t have the best reputation as far as…you know.
RACHEL: What?!?
JUDY: That’s what he said…
NANCY: That hasn’t changed over the years.
JUDY: He said they get a lot of action, I’m not kidding!
RACHEL: I’ve never heard such a thing, ever.
NANCY: Even in my generation I heard that.
JUDY: Really?
NANCY: Yep. Jewish girls were…looser.
JUDY: Oh look how quiet everyone is right now!
Okay number one: How awesome is Nancy Falchuk? Number two: This was news to me, as a highly chaste Jewish woman. Okay fine we don’t have a song dedicated to toppling our chastity, but still. I had no number three until about a week ago, when I started watching Glee. I was immediately struck by the character of Rachel Berry — an ambitious, talented, soulful and — yes — wanton young Jewess. I heartily identify with her every lip-biting, aching stare at Finn. Not to mention that hot football player with the mohawk. Yoo-hoo, poolboy, I’m in the yard! I need someone to help me rub suntan lotion on my back! Rawr. Where was I. Well, anyway — I’m not the only one noticing the Yiddishe tigress on Fox. Audiences, Golden Globe voters, the people who renew things at Fox — they all noticed.
The Internet noticed too. He-llo, Rachel Berry:
Or should I say, he-llo, gorgeous!
Anyway. You are probably confused right now, wondering what Glee has to do with Nancy Falchuk, president of Hadassah, that distinguished, dignified, 98-year old volunteer organization of upstanding Jewish women. I’d wonder, too, if I didn’t know that the co-creators of Glee were two gents by the name of Ryan Murphy and Brad...Falchuk!
Is it me or is that awesome? That’s really all I got, but I find it entertaining as hell. And as far as I can tell, the internet doesn’t know it yet. (The first result for “Nancy Falchuk Glee” is me, leaving a comment on a post about how awesome she was.)
I don’t actually think that Jewish girls are easy (never mind that it was the shiksa that got herself knocked up, hmph), nor do I actually think that Glee’s women are entirely the best role models, as much as I would love to spend a night karaoke-ing with April Rhodes. The point is, I’m rather recently obsessed with Glee, and I am excited to have one teensy-tiny little scoop about it. And this post was fun to write.
Also, “You’re Having My Baby” is by Paul Anka, who is Canadian. Fin. Or should I say, Finn.
Here is the video of we Salonistas discussing matters of Jewish virtue and other important issues:
Er, I really hope this post does not get me summarily removed from The Jewish Channel. I will just have to have faith, like that other Rachel. Don’t stop believin’!
p.s. Little secret: The “____ Girls Are Easy” applies to pretty much anyone, if you ask the Internet. Not easy, though: Bloggers. You heard it here first.
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The comment about Palin at the end of the video clip is so revealing. The liberal mantra has been that women should be able to do whatever they want, have a career, family, etc. Yet when Palin did just that, they condemn her. There is a word for that, hypocrisy.
Is that hypocrisy, or is it valid criticism? Palin hasn’t done anything particularly well, and in her manifold failures and aborted undertakings, she has used her children in the most unseemly ways. I think most successful women recoil at that abuse of children. I think, in the end, the children may make it, but I attribute that to the strength of their father and not their stage mother.
How has she abused her children? It has been the liberal lamestream press that has used her and her children in unseemly, abusive ways. Like Letterman’s reference to statutory rape of her underage daughter, the doctored ugly photos of a dear innocent Down syndrome baby, and horrid photoshoped pictures of her family, to name a few.
And what manifold failures and aborted undertakings? The liberal vultures wanted nothing more than to throw Palin out of the governor’s office, but then when she did resign, they were outraged, that she was obliging. They then, couldn’t get done and still aren’t done impugning her for it.
The real losers are those who filed all their umpteen petty ethics charges, which drove her out of office.
Charges, like the one where they charged her for wearing a warm winter jacket that she possessed for a years and one she always wore at Todd’s snowmobile races. The problem was that it had a logo on it with Todd’s Iron Dog sponsor. She got slapped with ethics violations for wearing a jacket with a logo.
She was charged for accepting “bribes” of chocolates and a kid’s hockey stick when she gifted with them after giving a speech at a charity event.
She was charged with holding a fish in a photo for a state fishing pamphlet.
She was charged with answering reporter’s questions in the lobby of her office the day she returned to work and found a whole herd pack of reporters blocking the doorway to her office. She was slapped with an ethics violation than as well.
She was acquitted on all those charges.
Instead of her staff dealing with the state’s business, they were dealing with the liberal vulture’s garbage thrust in her face. Anyone can file ethic charges in Alaska for free. These vultures flooded the system with charges and complaints to draw headlines against her. But she and her staff had to formally process each and every complaint and had to pay personally for her defense.
When she realized the liberal scum bag vultures would continue this garbage she chose to resign, because she wasn’t going to be able to do the work she was elected to do.
Than these same idiots have the gall to accuse her of manifold failures and aborted undertakings.
Here is just a small sampling, Real Royal King. Can you imagine the outrage (and rightly so) if these were doctored pics of the Obama children.
http://conservativecult.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/baby-trigs-photoshop-emporium/
Yeah, I’m still not convince about Sarah Palin, @MaxiGrace. The fact that she quit the Governor’s position mid-way with no good reason does not recommend her highly to me. I don’t pass judgment on how anyone conducts their family life, but I always understood Letterman’s joke to have been about Bristol, not Piper. I don’t really subscribe to the “liberal scumbag vulture” or “conservative scumbag vulture” view, either. I don’t need help in evaluating Sarah Palin’s actions and coming to my own opinion about them. It’s not like she’s low-profile!
She was dammed if she stayed in office and damned if she didn’t. If she stayed she would have been dealing with the many unfounded ethics charges, taking much of her time, time taken away from governing. And if she quit, she was called a quitter. I think she had a good reason to quit, beings her liberal haters would continue filing frivolous ethics charges. Charges they filed for free, yet she would need to spend thousands to fight.
Piper was at the ball game, not Bristol…duh.
As for being low profile, whose fault is that? Every time she opened her mouth the lamestream media haters were all over her, recording and printing everything they knew about her. Than they have the audacity to claim she isn’t low profile, when the reason she isn’t, is because of them.
Palin put her children for the country to see. She promoted them for her own personal image. Therefore, she ask for everything she got. She could have left her children more in the background but no she wanted to be MOM. Those children should have been in school or at the very least being tutored in some hotel room while she flew around the country. Some people refuse to take responsibility for their actions and want to blame everyone else. She had choices and made all the wrong ones. Yes, women can do many jobs at once. She is just self centered and wanted all the attention and still does.
P.S. Rachel I grew up in a “very” Jewish neighborhood and NO the girls were not “easy”.
Funny, no one mentioned the fact that the Obama Kids weren’t kept in the “background”. When Michelle Obama had her kids “out there”, no one adviced her keep them back, stuffed in a hotel room. The double standard is downright disgusting.
marigrace I am sorry that you can’t see the forest for the trees. I would bet that Obama’s children were in that terrible hotel room much more than her children. Sorry, but he didn’t use his children as a prop. Yes, you may be right about a double standard. The Obama family is by far not the circus that the Palin family turned out to be.
Palin didn’t use her kids as a prop either, even though the lamestream press purported it as such. Just becasue they purport something doesn’t make it so.
As for circuses…LOL…some of Michelle’s outfits look like they came straight from a clown’s wardrobe.
Didn’t Michelle have some stupid yellow dress with a green clown flower that squirted water? That was a penultimate disaster, and what I’ll forever remember her for.
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/06/send_in_the_clo_2.html
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