meeskite (MEESE-kite)-An ugly person or thing—even a sentiment. Most often used with regard to women. But then, Judaism is the religion where the Orthodox men have a prayer thanking Tod they weren't born women, so there you are.😱😵💫😅
zaftig (ZAHF-tig) - Usually with regard to a woman: pleasingly plump, large-breasted, ample. Whether used as a sincere term of flattery or as a euphemism for fat. 😵💫😬🤪
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GingerAntics I went to grad school with a woman who used to work at an orthodox Jewish pre-school and they would do the morning prayers with each child as they came in, and she said it was always really weird to do that part with the little boys, like here are all these women teaching these 3 year olds to be sexist. 3d
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics Orthodox is a whole 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫 3d
IndoorDame I went to conservative day school during the years that they slowly started changing that part of the liturgy. I remember learning women‘s counterpart to that, and even after our teachers decided the community would use the new liturgy it was years before all the prayer books turned over 3d
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie she laughed when I said it seemed really ironic that it was women expected to teach them this. She wasn‘t orthodox, but she said it was a job. 3d
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