Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!homxa!dcs From: dcs@homxa.UUCP (D.SIMEN) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Re: Genuine S:abuot Minhagim Message-ID: <237@homxa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 08:47:01 EDT Article-I.D.: homxa.237 Posted: Mon Jun 11 08:47:01 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Jun-84 23:56:50 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 23 > I think that Susan Sludsky has fairly accurately reproduced the type of > bigoted ignorant abuse to which my family and most other oriental Jews > were subjected when they emigrated to Israel. > Westerners in their cultural chauvinism assume that when women from > an oriental society are not encouraged to fill exactly the same social > roles as men, there must be systematic abuse of women. And then of course > there is the general principle if you don't understand it dump on it. > Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo > (An Equal Opportunity Offender) I am amazed that Y. Martillo doesn't recognize his own style, which Susan Slusky reproduced so well! Her article was funny because it was such a brilliant pastiche of Martillo's style -- with a perfect reproduction of his own "bigoted abuse" (although I cannot and will not accuse him of ignorance) and "cultural chauvinism". It was certainly not a "dump" on Sefardi customs; the only dumping I've seen in this newsgroup has come from Martillo himself. Somewhere I remember a mitsva that reads "V'ahavta l're`aka kamoka". David ben Mord'kai Simen ...!homxa!dcs