While there are a lot of impressive things rabbi Boteach's said or done over the years,
this 2005 book he wrote, titled "Hating Women" is not one of them, and it makes little difference what religious background he comes from; viewed through today's woke atmosphere, that's why it's an utter embarrassment, even if it reflects what some "well-meaning" conservatives thought at the time. The synopsis says:
From the author of the internationally bestselling Kosher Sex. A wake-up call about the growing trend of misogyny in our culture-as evidenced by the flood of reality TV shows, ads, and lyrics that portray women as brainless bimbos, or worse
Shmuley Boteach, the social commentator and outspoken relationship guru, shares his grave concerns about our society's growing contempt for women. Turn on the television: Reality TV shows such as The Bachelor, For Love or Money, and Average Joe boost their ratings by showing attractive women in competition for one man, one man's money, or both. On a "quest for true love," these women quickly devolve into a pit of vipers-and millions of Americans tune in each week for more. During commercial breaks, women are objectified to sell beer, cars, and every other product under the sun. Flip on the radio: Women are bitches, hos, and gold diggers, at least if you listen to the rap lyrics pumping out into our mass consciousness. And female pop stars like Britney and Madonna, says Boteach, have pushed the envelope past provocative and into the downright pornographic. 'Tween girls across the country follow their lead, and standards for how women should be treated plummet.
Perhaps one of the most troubling aspects of this trend, he says, is women's complicity in their own degradation. Either they've become resigned to base stereotypes, or worse, they've bought into these mass market values (hence the deluge of shows like The Swan and Extreme Makeover, on which female contestants insist they need a new nose, teeth, or boobs to feel a positive sense of self-esteem). "There are strong consequences," writes Boteach, "in a world where men have no respect for women and women have no respect for themselves."
Greedy gold diggers, brainless bimbos, publicity prostitutes, and backstabbing bitches-are these the stereotypes we want our sons and daughters bombarded by as they grow up? Hating Women offers a vision of how we can correct this downward spiral-along with a strong argument for why we absolutely must.
Now there is a valid argument to make in regards to Hollywood depicting women as gold diggers and backstabbers, but that claim women are "objectified" for selling beer and cars is extremely ludicrous and insulting, especially in an era where something far worse is happening - leftists in the USA are indoctrinating women to desecrate their gifts through transsexuality. What's galling is that Boteach made it sound like having a woman sell various products commercially is almost literally a bad thing. It's absolutely not, nor is if they're scantily dressed, period. Yet this has been a form of hysteria commonplace in many religions for a long time, and has caused only so much damage to women's rights and dignity everywhere, which is exactly why even Judaists like Boteach have to cease this idiocy.
One of the reviewers on Amazon, interestingly enough, said:
Unfortunately, when it comes to prescriptions, the author still falls back onto the old conservative recipes. In fact, some of his suggestions seem to come from late 1800s and contradict the rest of the book written from a surprisingly modern, even feminist perspective (author is an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi).
Now depending how you view this, it's weird that an Orthodox Judaist would condone a feminist perspective, if the negative viewpoint on sex appeal, if anything, stems from a left-liberal feminist position, What good does that do, when most left-wing feminists won't even thank him, and it certainly doesn't look that way in the years since. And it goes without saying that, as
the recent Bud Light fiasco, where they hired a male transvestite mocking women on Tik Tok to represent their advertising campaign, makes even the most questionable female representation for selling drinks and cars in the past look tame by comparison. Is Boteach okay with what's transpired since?
If people like Boteach really wanted to raise a valid complaint about something, what's really a problem is alcohol itself. Should anybody be encouraged to chug that crap? The brand of alcohol I most absolutely find repulsive is whiskey and vodka, which are painful to swallow. I should know, because I had the misfortune of downing the latter when I was little more than 5 years old at an outdoor event in Montgomery County, PA. Terrible stuff like that belongs in the sewer. How come nobody complains how this form of liquid clouds the brain considerably, even if only for a brief amount of time? Is it even healthy? Nope. Maybe Boteach should consider that.
More recently,
Miller Lite published a woke feminist advertisement in which the following propaganda was delivered:
Miller Lite’s video features a cultural stereotype — the frumpily dressed, arrogant, angry feminist — who tells us:
Here’s a little-known fact: women were among the very first to brew beer, ever. From Mesopotamia, to the Middle Ages, to Colonial America, women were the ones doing the brewing. Centuries later, how did the industry pay homage to the founding mothers of beer? They put us in bikinis. Wow. Look at this sh*t! Wild! It’s time beer made it up to women, so today Miller Lite is on a mission to clean up not just their sh*t, but the whole beer industry’s sh*t. Miller Lite has been scouring the Internet for all this sh*t and buying it back, so we can turn it into good sh*t for women brewers. Literally, The Good $#!T.
“The Good $#!T,” written just that way, is actually the name of this Miller Lite campaign. The ad goes on to feature various female brewers explaining what Miller Lite is planning to do, and making repeated reference to the “sh*t” that they’re going to turn into beer. Gee, that’s really going to make people want to drink Miller Lite. They’re asking people to scour their attics and basements to find old magazines containing Miller Lite ads and other beer ads that feature bikini-clad women; such ads are what they’re calling “sh*t.” They want woke fascists to send these ads to them, so that they can be shredded and used as fertilizer (“the good sh*t”) to grow hops to make more woke beer. Yes, really.
The Miller Lite ad, however, is full of — well, you know. It’s not actually a “little-known fact” that women were among the very first people to brew beer. It’s striking to grievance-obsessed victimhood-mongers in women’s studies departments, but in the nation’s few remaining pockets of sanity, it’s widely known.
Also, the wokester in the ad sneers that the industry “put us in bikinis” as if it were tantamount to putting women in chains, and I suppose that to her, it’s all the same thing. But it’s not actually true that women are generally forced to wear bikinis, or that bikini-wearing is some sort of act of shaming women. Those women who wear bikinis generally do so because they think they look good in them and are proud of the fact. Since the dawn of time, women have tried to make themselves look attractive and are happy to do so; it’s only modern feminism that considers this effort to be some kind of act of subjugation and humiliation, and rejects it accordingly.
Unfortunately, even western religious advocates also believe bikinis are abominable, yet the feminists never thank them, unless they're Islamofascists. For now, this only compounds how disgusted I am with any Haredis who believe it's inherently wrong for women to dress in skimpy outfits like bikinis, because they only perpetuated a bad situation while never receiving any actual thanks from the leftist feminists whose view they were mirroring. Though at the same time, it wouldn't be shocking if many liberal feminists did actually condone the lifestyle of clans like Satmar, along with the anti-feminine ideologies they uphold.
We could also point to how Judy Blume, regrettably a pretentious author decades before she really went downhill of recent,
associated with Mulvaney for doing an advertisement for an adaptation of "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret", that was a serious box office fiasco:
Many prepubescent girls dread the day their breasts develop. That feeling was once a common rite of passage but has more recently been swept up in the transgender movement by girls seeking to suppress their blossoming bosoms via masculinizing hormones to stifle their estrogen production before puberty occurs. Others are too late to stop puberty and decide to get their breasts cut off through top surgery, procedurally referred to as a double mastectomy.
For more than 50 years, Blume’s 1970 novel has been devoured by young girls needing some relatable direction as their bodies changed. The story is narrated by Margaret, an 11-year-old, who must navigate the adversity of adolescence after moving to a suburban New Jersey school from New York. The self-conscious sixth grader befriends her neighbor, Nancy, and the two form a secret club — the Preteen Sensations — with new friends Gretchen and Janie to explore their newfound maturation.
Surprisingly, the new film adaptation of Blume’s contribution to pre-teen culture was not guaranteed the same acclaim as the book. The movie underperformed at the box office with a $6.8 million opening. Only 6 percent of ticket-buyers were teenage girls.
After building her career embracing womanhood and the biology that accompanies it, Judy Blume recently rejected that reality by backing the transgender movement.
Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney posted a five-minute TikTok video interview on Saturday with Blume. Rather than employing an actual young girl for the paid promotion, the adept author chose a man masquerading as a young girl to appeal to potential theatergoers.
The politicized advertisement follows an April 16 Twitter post by Blume, declaring her affirmation of transgenderism. Blume blatantly states her “support [for] the trans community,” claiming that she “stand[s] with the trans community and vehemently disagree[s] with anyone who does not fully support equality and acceptance for LGBTQIA+ people.”
Responsible for a film about traditional girlhood released in an era of gender confusion, Blume knew she had to align herself with dysphoric deviants to allure today’s ideological youth. Margaret’s story may not resonate with modern teenage girls, but Mulvaney’s might.
[...] Gaining favor with today’s teenage girls is not as simple as making a mockery of the exclusive female experience. They seek escapism from the inescapable changes that come with becoming a woman.
Transgenderism is a social contagion among teenage girls who no longer embrace the chant that they must increase their bust. In past decades, other dangerous afflictions like anorexia served the same emotional purpose as adopting a transgender identity. Uncomfortable with their changing bodies, teenage girls seek to distance themselves from their womanhood. They outright reject it, fearful of both growing up and unwanted attention.
Does this sit well with Judaists like Boteach? Because when you say women/girls should "dress modestly", it's another way of saying their bodies are ugly and disgusting. Has this ever occurred to religious advocates of the past? And how do they feel about it now? More to the point, how do they even feel about girls who're desecrating their God-given gifts, turning themselves into horrific Frankenstein-ish figures because they're taught to be literally ashamed of their bodies?
And on that note, what the religious advocates of Boteach's standings never considered before is that by body-shaming women from a religious perspective, they were insulting God, the one who gave women their components and gifts of beauty. And now, it could be too late to reverse much of the serious damage occurring in the USA and elsewhere, because even Judaists like Boteach would rather take a sex-negative viewpoint than one offering encouragement and self-confidence to assure girls/women there's nothing inherently wrong with their bodies, and nothing wrong with sexy dress either. Let's also consider there's women who've been subject to horror stories in Islamic countries for even less, and anybody who's goint to lecture women how to dress, no matter their political standings, has only done exactly what the Islamofascists would want.
Thinking about this now, I'm very disappointed with people like Boteach for being so hysterical and petty in the past, and I'd appreciate if they'll reevaluate now, seeing what mental damage has resulted from the transsexual propaganda that's even led to men and women destroying their ability to procreate. It's not enough to simply say you're against destroying physical organs. You also have to say it's not inherently wrong for women to dress skimpy, and make sure you provide them with the confidence they need to be proud of their bodies as they grow older.
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