1.) "Carrie is based on a composite of two girls
Stephen King observed while attending grade school and high school.
'She was a very peculiar girl who came from a very peculiar
family. Her mother wasn't a religious nut like the mother in Carrie; she was a
game nut, a sweepstakes nut who subscribed to magazines for people who entered
contests … the girl had one change of clothes for the entire school year, and
all the other kids made fun of her. I have a very clear memory of the day she
came to school with a new outfit she'd bought herself. She was a plain-looking
country girl, but she'd changed the black skirt and white blouse – which was
all anybody had ever seen her in – for a bright-colored checkered blouse with
puffed sleeves and a skirt that was fashionable at the time. And everybody made
worse fun of her because nobody wanted to see her change the mold.' ~Stephen King,
On Writing"
Muhammad Rasheed - Because that's how people are. It's easier to be an asshole,
so more people are assholes than not. The myth is that people are "good
deep down," but that's not true; good and bad are opposing temptations,
and neither rule by default. You have to deliberately choose one or the other.
People are neutral by nature – the thinking animal. Water flows down the path
with the least resistance, as do our behaviors, and it is definitely easier to
be an asshole than not. That's why people can falsely link "violent
extremism" to Islam, but be appalled and confused when you point out the
hypocrisy that they can't see in their own practitioners who perform violent
extremism.
2.) “Barbra Streisand portrays Yentl Mendel, a girl living
in an Ashkenazi shtetl named Pechev in Poland in the early 20th century.
Yentl's father, Rebbe Mendel, secretly instructs her in the Talmud despite the
proscription of such study by women according to the custom of her community.”
Muhammad Rasheed - Notice that these writers don’t have a problem separating
“custom of the community” from the tenets of religion, but you can bet that
those same folk will insist that the exact same parallels in Islamic countries
come from the religion itself. I’ll advise you NOT to take that bet since the
described phenomenon is currently going on in another thread. It’s easier for
people to be assholes and enthusiastically hold onto their pet hypocrisies.
3.) “Yentl begins with the same premise as Singer's original
story. Streisand's character finds herself born into the wrong gender, a woman
with the ‘soul of a man.’ Her talent, curiosity and ambition are considered
strictly masculine by her society and religious tradition. Unwilling to live
with the drudgery of life as a woman, Yentl leaves her home and conceals her gender
to be able to pursue the scholarly occupation of a Jewish man. In doing so,
Yentl inadvertently embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will defy
simple definition and transcend traditional notions of gender and sexual
identity.”
Muhammad Rasheed - The “with the soul of a man” item is obvious clap-trap… or
it should be obvious rather. The real problem from a common sense standpoint is
that's how “woman” is defined in a narrow-minded manner and society is
pressured to accept that as their “normal.” It should be clear that this has
nothing to do with biology in context.
4.) "Often Jewish-American immigrants who struck out on
their own were unable to dedicate the amount of time and energy into text study
that their ancestors had."
Muhammad Rasheed - Why? Because they physically, economically couldn't, or
because they no longer wanted to?
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