Just The Way We Are
Feminists, I venture to say, approach marriage with less blinders on than most women. At least this feminist woman did/does. I have high expectations of the men around me: remain yourselves, because I love you for yourselves. But at the same time, we all have to remain vigilant that gender roles and mundane societal expectations [...]
In graduate school, I was the lone female in a class filled with Orthodox Jewish boys. When we spoke about the role of women in Jewish ritual, one of my classmates spoke up.”You know what bothers me most? When women read from the Torah.” “What?” I screamed in my head. Did he really just say that? I [...]
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