Comments on: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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a3249381 — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:09:23 +0000

I’ve said that least 3249381 times. The problem this like that is they are just too compilcated for the average bird, if you know what I mean

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By: dee

dee — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:12:00 +0000

Liel Leibovitz needs to read through this, and find out at last which actors are Jewish and which are not. It is, of course, incomplete.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jewish_actors

And thanks for the lovely picture of the hideous Woody Allen, the ugliest Jew in the history of cinema, with the gorgeous Muriel Hemingway. Joseph Goebbels would not have been so cruel.

Maybe next time you should post a picture of the late, and Jewish, Tony Curtis in his prime, or of the current, and Jewish, Logan Lerman — with the female co-star of your choice. I assure you in both cases the boy will be prettier than the girl.

By: Suzy

Suzy — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:09:44 +0000

My mother’s main warning to me was that because I was not a tall, thin, curveless girl like many (not all) of the Christian girls in my class, but was instead 5’2″ with a rear, hips and breasts, I would not be considered “pretty,” because I wasn’t “skinny.” I think the beauty trends regarding female curves change depending on the era, but in some women’s eyes, the size-0 look is the ideal. I think some men see that differently.

By: Suzy

Suzy — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:06:36 +0000

I think the male Jewish writers (both print and screen) who kept alive the “shiksa goddess” archetype had deeply ingrained, toxic attitudes about Jewish women – the same as Joseph. I am a Jewish woman, and I know a few Jewish women who are like that, as well as some “imperial” Jewish men. I don’t like those people either! But I know that not all Jewish women or men are that way. Sweeping generalizations are usually without merit. Still, the stereotypes about Jewish women generated in books, movies and TV persist and cause a lot of damage, I think. If a young man is in the dating world and believes that all Jewish woman are ugly, hairy, dark, fat, demanding, frigid, shrill, whatever (interestingly, the Jewish women I know say much the same about Jewish men), he will never judge each woman he meets as an individual. She’s just lumped into a stereotype and judged before she has a chance to speak. There have always been Jewish beauties in Hollywood (Hedy Lamarr, Lauren Bacall, Paulette Goddard), but they were often forced to change their names and play down their backgrounds. Luckily, Hollywood has grown a bit in that regard! I also think that Jewish women perpetuate the stereotype in a sense: My mother and her generation always said, “You won’t be viewed as pretty because you look Jewish, instead of looking like a ‘shiksa.’” There is no single standard of beauty. While the Jewish men I know avoid me (and I’m naturally pale, blonde and blue-eyed with zero body hair, although curvy), plenty of “shaygitzes” chase after me like you wouldn’t believe. I turned them down for years, in vain pursuit of only Jewish men, but I finally gave up. Now I date mainly Christian men. Because the Jewish men assume I’m a materialistic shrew (I’m not), frigid (NOT), and ugly (not).

By: Leah

Leah — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:23:14 +0000

Joseph, why is it always the woman’s fault? Where’s the accountability? Let’s just be real here, the shiksa goddess is held up as a standard of beauty because traditionally back in the shtetl the shiksa female was exotic and forbidden. An obsession was born. In the new world that obsession flourished on screens, big and small. I thank Leil for shedding some light on something that needs to be considered, not just for Jewish women but for all women. Hollywood is very powerful. It influences culture, sets standards and starts memes. Those who have so much power over the culture need to consider what they are influencing people to believe.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:13:00 +0000

All this skirts the main issue: American Jewish society is a matriarcahhl society, where women rule. Dating an American Jewish woman is often dating an empress– a kind hearted one, but an empress jsut the same. She behaves as she was taught to behave at home. And, more recently, she has also become a faminist. Feminists usually talk about themselves, their needs, their career, their views, their ex, their families, and their monthers. In other words, she has to get the attention which is due to the man. A shiksa, blonde, redhead, or brunette, usually pays attention to the man and makes him the focus of the relationship. It’s about him, not about her. In other words, Jewish women are often high maintenance; shiksas maintain their man. Or, stated yet differently, and in commercial terms, the Jewish woman’s Ask is often far higher than the man’s Bid. So there’s no trade.

By: Arnold Handelman

Arnold Handelman — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:48:55 +0000

This theme of a Jewish male hankering for an American blonde gentile woman seems to have been there in literature as well as movies and TV.
In Joshua Then And Now, Mordecai Richler has his Jewish male protagonist, a writer, with lower middle class socio-economic origins, swoon over, court and marry a very Waspy blonde upper class shiksa: the daughter of a Senator. The interaction between Jews and Gentiles, whether French-Canadian or Anglophile, in Montreal society was so ably explored by Richler. The hiding of Jewish women is there also. In the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Duddy’s deceased mother is not in the novel, and he carries on with a French Canadian shiksa girlfriend.
With all the Jewish novelists, one would think that it is finally time for Jewish women to belatedly make their debut. After all, doesn’t the public love being given insight into hidden worlds?