Anonymous wrote:Esther and MIL's characters make it obvious why Noah wants someone different.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I didn’t think Esther was “awesome” at all. She was a complete jerk to Joanne.
Everyone was terrible / prejudiced / discriminatory to Joanne in a way that would not fly if the tables were turned.
But in her own community Esther was an interesting person and she really started to see that she could flaunt the rules towards the end. I mean her MIL wouldn't even let her in her kitchen. Who would put up with a MIL like that? Nobody on DCUM for sure.
Yes. They always are.
Esther did not seem interesting at all. What’s interesting about her? She dresses a lot and is a grandmother-aged Jewish stay at home mom in Los Angeles.
Esther was busy raising a child and a dud of an immature, pothead dh who couldn't even do nepotism right. What was funny to me was the rabbi barely ever working, Joanne living the life even though all she did was a half-ass podcast. And everyone was too old for their behaviors.
Omg this! Why are we pretending that Kristen Bells character was 28-31?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm watching it. Adam Brody is adorable and saves the show. Kristen Bell is grating, so is her mean sister. I can't believe how many times they have used the word shiksa 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?!!
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.
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.
Is the shiksa word Yiddish or Hebrew?
Did it originate when Hasidism and the Talmud did in 1800s europe or before that?
The Talmud is an interesting document that could explain all kinds of behaviors towards Gentiles.
Anonymous wrote:Nobody should want to ever watch this terrible show. Just awful, all of it.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I didn’t think Esther was “awesome” at all. She was a complete jerk to Joanne.
Everyone was terrible / prejudiced / discriminatory to Joanne in a way that would not fly if the tables were turned.
But in her own community Esther was an interesting person and she really started to see that she could flaunt the rules towards the end. I mean her MIL wouldn't even let her in her kitchen. Who would put up with a MIL like that? Nobody on DCUM for sure.
Yes. They always are.
Esther did not seem interesting at all. What’s interesting about her? She dresses a lot and is a grandmother-aged Jewish stay at home mom in Los Angeles.
Esther was busy raising a child and a dud of an immature, pothead dh who couldn't even do nepotism right. What was funny to me was the rabbi barely ever working, Joanne living the life even though all she did was a half-ass podcast. And everyone was too old for their behaviors.
Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty stupid. I still watched it because there’s not much high-quality rom-com stuff out there.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm watching it. Adam Brody is adorable and saves the show. Kristen Bell is grating, so is her mean sister. I can't believe how many times they have used the word shiksa 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?!!
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.
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.