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43. Yeah, there is a LOT of Lady Hate in Orthodox Judaism

Like after the Hefsek taharah, she gets to go for a Mikvah...a ritual bath that cleanses her and makes her pure again to sleep with her husband. During menstruation she can't lie in the same bed as he, so she sleeps on a hard pallet on the floor.

4 days a month. Oy.

Look, I'm sick of hearing about misogynist Muslims, when these whack job Orthodox are just as anti-chick. My other favorite thing they do is sit the women behind a barrier in Temple, like they need to cage us wild thangs. Because Yaweh knows we can't be distracting all these scholarly Yeshiva boys with our Jezebellian lady parts! I think Judaism is the original philosophy to blame women for men's lack of sexual control--starting with Eve. Unfortunately, the idea has caught on far too well.

So for full disclosure, I know what I know cuz these crazies are my ancestors, I'm 2 generations removed from the Shtetl. Super-glad I was born in a era where I can be a feminist and an atheist.