Angry Rant Against The OCP
Apr. 7th, 2005 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theyellowhobbitSo it's been since last semester when we've had a good tisch. And by good I mean one of those loud, singing, table banging types of tisches.
So last week 403 said they'd make a tisch, and they did, except it was a shalshuddis type song session instead of a tisch. But they said they'd do one this week.
But they lied. And they're going to do it next week, when I'm at the bat-mitzvah that I have to go to.
I haven't heard chad gadya since Simchat Torah.
Ok. You think I'm overreacting in my pissed off-ness. Maybe I am. But then, you didn't have to give up what I did. All of those fun, crazy, energetic song sessions they had in NFTY. And there were still some in Kesher, even though they weren't as good. And I would have been a Reform Rabbi, so we would have had fun crazy song sessions every Friday night, complete with guitar and all.
So I gave up all that, which is fine, since I like keeping halacha, but there's no halacha that says Orthodox people should be boring and not freaking sing!
And I had to give it all up. And at least last year there were tisches, but now, stupid people in 403, my stupid friends in 403, have decided they hate all things singingy and fun.
If I was a guy, I could have my own tisch. But because I'm a girl, I can't. Everyone was like "oh, there will be tons of singing on Purim." And there was. And do you know where it was at? THE GUYS' MEALS!!!! No one sang at the girls' meals, because girls have no energy. And they don't like singing! Why couldn't we have had a seudah like the guys? It's not fair! So if I had a girls' tisch, it would be boring and we'd end up having no energy, because Orthodox girls don't know how to be uninhibited, even when there are no guys around.
Why do I have to be a girl? Of all the people in the world, I shouldn't have to be a girl. There's this stupid kol isha rule. And this stupid rule that girls can't read torah, or lead services, or do anything I love. We're supposed to be modest. What good is modesty? I don't want to be modest!!!!
I'm not trying to offend anyone, but I am trying to tell people how upset I am. Though no one reading this live journal can do anything about it.
So last week 403 said they'd make a tisch, and they did, except it was a shalshuddis type song session instead of a tisch. But they said they'd do one this week.
But they lied. And they're going to do it next week, when I'm at the bat-mitzvah that I have to go to.
I haven't heard chad gadya since Simchat Torah.
Ok. You think I'm overreacting in my pissed off-ness. Maybe I am. But then, you didn't have to give up what I did. All of those fun, crazy, energetic song sessions they had in NFTY. And there were still some in Kesher, even though they weren't as good. And I would have been a Reform Rabbi, so we would have had fun crazy song sessions every Friday night, complete with guitar and all.
So I gave up all that, which is fine, since I like keeping halacha, but there's no halacha that says Orthodox people should be boring and not freaking sing!
And I had to give it all up. And at least last year there were tisches, but now, stupid people in 403, my stupid friends in 403, have decided they hate all things singingy and fun.
If I was a guy, I could have my own tisch. But because I'm a girl, I can't. Everyone was like "oh, there will be tons of singing on Purim." And there was. And do you know where it was at? THE GUYS' MEALS!!!! No one sang at the girls' meals, because girls have no energy. And they don't like singing! Why couldn't we have had a seudah like the guys? It's not fair! So if I had a girls' tisch, it would be boring and we'd end up having no energy, because Orthodox girls don't know how to be uninhibited, even when there are no guys around.
Why do I have to be a girl? Of all the people in the world, I shouldn't have to be a girl. There's this stupid kol isha rule. And this stupid rule that girls can't read torah, or lead services, or do anything I love. We're supposed to be modest. What good is modesty? I don't want to be modest!!!!
I'm not trying to offend anyone, but I am trying to tell people how upset I am. Though no one reading this live journal can do anything about it.
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Date: 2005-04-07 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-07 07:20 pm (UTC)i can't become un-frum now and be egalitarian...it's not the way things work.
i don't really regret becoming orthodox. i regret the OCP being stupid and unsingingy
how do they expect to do kiruv and get NFTY people to want to be orthodox if "orthodoxy" means losing all that fun singing that they were used to?
better to replace it with something even more fun.
but no one in the OCP believes me or agrees with me. I'm the crazy leftist
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Date: 2005-04-07 09:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-07 09:56 pm (UTC)Ask away. You can post here, or e-mail me, or talk to me if you're here this shabbas [since we have a long shabbas afternoon and can actually talk!] or call my cell [it's listed on facebook] or something