Monday, August 25, 2008

Escape From The Other Real Bitch Island



This is an interesting article about the Kriyas Joel Hasids of New York; a cultish village of Jewish men and women who terrorize their children with tales about their coming place in hell, force their women to wear ugly, poorly hemmed skirts so as not to attract male attention, and digest the universally fuzzy-wuzzy symbol of the rainbow as an indication of the coming worldwide apocolypto-flood ("not even Noah will save us from this one!") Oh, and they also believe stars are just "holes" poked in the trashbag God has wrapped around our tiny, doomed planet.

One girl named Gitty escaped this heady mixture of religious terrorism and misogyny and fled to Williamsburg, the hip part of Williamsburg, where she spoke to New York Magazine's Mark Jacobsen, a cool-Jew journalist dude, about the phenomenally phucked up years she spent living under the Jewish Gestapo. She's now trying to get her daughter out of the cult as well, but her ex-husband is trying to prove to the judge that she's a pot head, even though she's only smoked once in the past few months. The whole piece is totally involving and interesting and just read it, okay?, so I can feel like I didn't just waste a half an hour of my life gaining new knowledge I won't be able to share with anyone.

Interesting as well: it appears some of Gitty's old nemesis from her shtetl years have unearthed this article on the web, and are using the comments section to blast her for her scandalous NY Mag photos and for shitting all over their religious way of life. It's an all out secular vs. non-secular war...as if the christian religious fundies one day all decided to descend on Jezebel! (Even though I guess they'd have to gain commenter cred first). It's a public shaming as only a large internet public forum and tons of angry people who just discovered the internet can provide. You've been warned.

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