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In effect, Holocaust uniqueness – this “claim” upon others, this “moral capital” – serves as Israel’s prize alibi. “The singularity of the Jewish suffering,” historian Peter Baldwin suggests, “adds to the moral and emotional claims that Israel can make . . . on other nations.”

What an American Jewish child inherits, according to novelist Philip Roth, is “no body of law, no body of learning and no language, and finally, no Lord . . . but a kind of psychology: and the psychology can be translated in three words: ‘Jews are better.’ ”

"Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spider-webs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look so pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each."

After a first chapter which deals with Jewish, Christian, Greek and Roman wives, the book dives into Medieval Europe. It is silent on wives in Islam, India and the Far East. This book should be called a 'A History of the Wife in the West', by rights.

'Also, "Sanatani" Hindus: please don't be misled by my name. I don't believe in the myth of Arsha Bharata or the Sanatana Dharma. I believe that our so-called ancient culture is a crock of crap: also that Hindu fundamentalism is the cancer that is eating India.'

Added this to my bio today. I am fed up with butthurt Hindus trying to show me the error of my ways!

Feminism, like yoga, is a practice, and perfection is an illusion.

A pertinent and eloquent response to this question came from a
gentleman on Twitter, when I shared an essay about raising a
feminist son. “Raise a feminist son? Why didn’t you just cut his dick
off at birth?” his tweet said, blinking at me in rage.