Reply To: Women Shouldn’t Be Expected To Work

CS: I’m sure that none of your bubbes were CSWs, RNs, had a double matters — or even a single masters, for that matter. In fact, I’m willing to wager that your own mother had none of those as well. Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if your own wife had none of these higher education papers hanging on her wall. Am I right or am I right, dear CS?

So what’s your Rebbishe stock gotta do with the Brooklyn Bridge? I assure you that none of your Rebbishe ancestors encouraged any of this. Indeed, I’m sure they’d all rather see you using a flip phone than a smartphone. So you’re not following in their ways yet trodding them out as props to support your positions that they oppose. Putting on vayser zucken sounds like a wardrobe stylistic choice in this case rather than any heartfelt commitment to the ideals.

mrmwlf: Yasher Koach.

huju: Kollel is not “one subject”, it is Kol HaTorah Kula. What my secular master’s and doctoral disciplines were in is irrelevant, but they were in two separate programs.