OK, so, it's time to get controversial here.
I have long had issue with the idea that women of certain faiths must cover their hair... The idea basically being that it is too lovely and too much of a temptation to show publicly. Apparently, women's tresses flowing in the sunshine might incite even the most devout of men to be overcome by unholy thoughts and actions...
REALLY? OK, so, how are these devout men coping with the fact that the MEN in their communities are walking about with their hair showing? Hair is hair, after all -- and I have met many a man with much more fetching hair than I have. Far be it from me to suggest that the males of these cultures are regularly being overcome by spasms of homosexual (and thus extremely unholy) lust on a daily basis. On the contrary, my point is, THEY ARE NOT.
Why is that not happening, you might wonder? Well, how about this: people, men and women both, are in control of their thoughts and actions. If we DECIDE that we will not be overcome by hair lust for members of the same sex, then we are not. In religious terms, you can call this Free Will. God gave it to us ALL. It's how we manage to live our lives without daily succumbing to every little impulse.
Logically speaking, if we can exercise our Free Will to keep from defiling ourselves every five minutes in ONE area of our lives, we can DECIDE to do the same in others. For those hard of understanding, I'm suggesting that the idea that women must cover their hair so as not to incite public orgy, is in fact utterly ridiculous. The solution to the hair coverage problem would be for the men in these societies to, well, MAN UP. Control yourselves, for God's sake! You have the power. You exercise self-control every single day.
So now, the Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung has decided that they can't show photos of women, specifically our Secretary of State and our #1 in Counter-Terrorism here in the good 'ole U S of A, in their newspapers. It's too provocative, too suggestive! Imagine that!!! The Hasidic community apparently finds Hillary Clinton so overwhelmingly sexy that to publish her photo could possibly topple their entire existence! God forbid (or does He?) they publish a photo of Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann...
What is even more astonishing is that there is a rule in Hasidic Judaism against deceit. This rule should well cover the idea of Photoshopping out key players in a scenario of major international import. It is concerning to think that of the two evils, deceit is more palatable to this "news" institution than is admitting that they are turned on by women in positions of power.
Sounding sort of kinky to you?
It gets better, though. This so-called news organization is not in some remote part of the World. They are in Brooklyn! As in, New York City! I hope they never run into the Naked Cowboy.
So I have to wonder now, if this paper cuts all women out of photos. One would think that it's nearly impossible to accurately (and without deciet!) report the news without at least mentioning women. But you just can't document their participation in any level of our society by printing a PHOTOGRAPH of them?
Shame, shame, shame on you, Der Tzitung! It would seem that the Hasidic community of Brooklyn would be better served by being ignorant of all news. And if you buy that, I have some lovely oceanfront property in Arizona up for sale...
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