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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I just knew after my marriage to Trey didn’t work out that I really wanted to marry into a more stable tradition and have some kids!   I didn’t ever mean to fall for my schvitzing divorce lawyer, but B-H for Harry!
Mazel tov and welcome to the tribe!![/quote]

[b]Umm.. what?[/quote][/b]

it's a riff off of Sex and the City.  The shiksa brunette wants to convert to judaism to nab Trey.[/quote]
 the term shiksa is offensive 
I am surprised 
Is it really a thing to call converts that?[/quote]

No. Converts are Jewish and do not get othered in that way.

But there is a lot of history behind the word's use in an America where Jewish men bought entry into white society by denigrating Jewish women as the backward, ethnic ones. N.B. everything mid-20th century Jewish authors and comedians said about their Jewish mothers and sisters as explanation for why Jewish women are undesirable as partners. If the community corrects for this by jabbing at Jewish men who seem chase non-Jewish women in this complicated attempt to reconcile their competing identities, well, it is kind of understandable. But we should have a name for the Portnoys  (that's what I call them), not the women who don't understand the dynamic they're dragged into.[/quote]

So non-Jewish women get called names when a Jewish man dates or marries them. Got it, but it's not exactly a "correction" if the men aren't blamed except by association with a shiksa.[/quote]
Not very progressive, not into women’s rights[/quote]

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