Re: Back of the bus?

[Jan Theodore Galkowski/Helen Andrea Galkowski <jtgalkowski...>]

At 01:12 PM 3/6/98 EST, you wrote:
>Lynn, I understand your frustration.  (I feel your pain?)
>
>However, just because your beliefs don't jive with theirs is not a reason to
>condemn them, is it?
>
>Do you realize that one very real reason for a mechitzah is NOT to
>discriminate against women?  We were always told it was due to the
weakness of
>men, who are unable to think about anything for more than two minutes without
>straying back to sex.  Who am I to argue?  In some synagogues, I have seen
>women with such hot outfits that I concentrated on nothing else during the
two
>hours I was there.  

And should the rest of us rearrange our lives to accommodate your
personal lack of self-discipline?!  Rubbish!!


This is simply a manipulative device to keep women in their place.
Who, if one accepts this "line", is to protect women from similar
desires regarding the men in front of them?


>.....................And I am certain that many men are also as "weak" as
I am
>in overcoming our animal instincts.  The Mishnah in Pirkei Avot (Sayings of
>the Fathers) says "Who is strong?  He who can overcome his evil
inclinations!"
>Obviously, the need for a mechitzah acknowledges that we inferior men have
yet
>to learn to conquer these urges.

Bullshit.

>
>Therefore, Lynn, be not offended!
>
>Shabbat Shalom, Brian
>

A pox on you.

 -jt