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Is it appropriate for anonymous men & women to be shmoozing together via the coffee room? Or is it so regulated that it makes no difference who is the poster?
The purpose of a mechitza is to avoid kalus rosh between the genders. I haven’t seen that happening and even if it happened to a mild extent since posters can’t contact one another directly it shouldn’t be a problem. Unless it causes people to pursue kalus rosh in real life then it may be of concern.
1. How dare you assume people’s genders. Perhaps I identify as a genderless alien.
2. How do you know we ALL aren’t genderless aliens? You can’t prove were not; it’s all anonymous.Chances are that some of the people going by male names are in truth female and vice versa. That thought alone should give pause to anyone who would potentially get inappropriate feelings of uninhibitedness, thinking they are conversing with the opposite gender.
Riverdale,
Wouldn’t that be בגד אשה?
Build that wall!!!! ….and make the poskim from Yeshiva Chovevei Torah (in Riverdale) responsible for its construction so we are certain that everyone (of any intellectual height) can see through it
The mods act as a machitza.
Yes, a separate list for trolls.
Lets ask the artscroll group what they think.
After all it was made for balleobatim,and since most commentators here are not in kollel, they must be bakeibatimIt does need one. No one shojuld daven here until they put up a proper mechitza.
In case you haven’t noticed, we likely have some bi-postal posters who raise totally different halachic issues. As a practical matter though, a single-gender forum would be more of an echo chamber than the vibrant exchange of ideas and thoughts that we have… a virtual varbeshe section behind a firewall of sorts would be considerably less stimulating.
“would be considerably less stimulating.”
That’s exactly what’s required. That special stimulating needs to be avoided.
Haimy
this is on my mind. not sure if its appropriate. i am thinking maybe to leave the coffee room.
or maybe people should write in a way that you cant know their gender. just stick to the topic” If your hocking with a female on ywn, what will stop you from hocking with someone at the office water cooler.
Haimy: perhaps you should not be c’v “working” in an office with a water cooler since we all know watercooler schmoozing is the source of much of the pritzus in the secular world. Thats why many mashgichim don’t allow bochurim to place a water bottle on a shtender in the beis medrash since it is such a slippery slope…
haimy are you leaving the CR?
Haimy: The Virtual World altogether doesn’t “fly” so easily here.
What does the physical characteristic of a schtender being a slope have anything to do with shmuzing
“Thats why many mashgichim don’t allow bochurim to place a water bottle on a shtender in the beis medrash
since it is such a slippery slope…”
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