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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm watching it. Adam Brody is adorable and saves the show. Kristen Bell is grating, so is her [b]mean sister. I can't believe how many times they have used the word shiksa[/b] so far. It's a slur, fine if you want to use it once, but getting old, repetitive and rude. The show started to go majorly south when he brought her to the retreat, then barged in on her work dinner to light shabbat candles after sundown?!![/quote]

It just occurred to me that the sister plays the sister in law in the Marvelous Mrs Maisel…the one who converted and is a more devout Jew than her in laws. Pretty sure they used the word “shiksa” quite a bit on that show. [/quote]

It felt very uncomfortable to hear that word so much. It's a total slur putting down both Jewish women for not being as alluring as, and non Jewish women for not being as worthy as. It's somewhat okay for a woman to self-define as such in a humorous way but it really is not otherwise okay. [/quote]

I mean isn't that something that was an episode 2 where they're in the bar and the girls are perplexed by the shiksa term and Joanne asked whether she should be offended or flattered and the rabbis response is technically to get us insult that means you're impure and detestable. 
But these days it just means you're hot blonde non-jew.

I mean if you don't think that's hilarious then no the show is not for you. I laughed very loud at that part.

Because it's both talking about the truth which is the origination of the term and also how language evolves but let's be clear there are millions of Jews and some use that term the way it was originally intended.

I also get a little annoyed at the whole oh my God it's a stereotype as if the two blonde girls from California with a fruit loop mom and a gay dad who's been in the closet aren't also a stereotype.

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