{"id":94341,"date":"2016-04-27T18:32:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T02:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94341"},"modified":"2016-04-27T18:32:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T02:32:28","slug":"whither-the-shiksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94341","title":{"rendered":"Whither The Shiksa?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Review of Books<\/a>: The point of all this is that the pejorative of shiksa has been hollowed out: \u201cshiksa\u201d today is used as often as not in winking self-reference. Drew Barrymore, wife of Will Kopelman, recently called herself a shiksa on national television. \u201cThe Shiksa\u201d is a popular cooking blog authored by a convert. Shiksa, by Christine Benvenuto, is a book about the difficulties of intermarried and converted wives and girlfriends. Boy Vey!: The Shiksa\u2019s Guide to Dating Jewish Men is exactly what you fear it is.
\nIf the shiksa is the one chasing Jewish men, and not the other way around, then the shiksa has defeated her own purpose, has run her course. Jewish men need a new romantic aspiration. In The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin submits a candidate. \u201cI\u2019m developing an algorithm to define the connection between Jewish guys and Asian girls,\u201d says one Jewish nerd to another in the 2010 film. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s that complicated,\u201d the second Jewish nerd answers. \u201cThey\u2019re hot, they\u2019re smart, they\u2019re not Jewish and they can\u2019t dance.\u201d
\nThe question, then, isn\u2019t whether shiksa is a pejorative; it\u2019s whether she\u2019s even relevant. As a mere aesthetic description, \u201cshiksa\u201d delivers none of the thrill of the forbidden, is no longer the go-to object of lust, is someone your mother would just as likely approve of as not. It may be that she\u2019s become perfectly harmless, despite what the Toronto Police would have you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Review of Books: The point of all this is that the pejorative of shiksa has been hollowed out: \u201cshiksa\u201d today is used as often as not in winking self-reference. Drew Barrymore, wife of Will Kopelman, recently called herself … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t