Aw, pay not attention to that other woman. If it was good enough for Mae West, it's good enough for anyone. :)
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, By the way, Wiccans don't have Satan. The basic idea is that to name something is to give it power. Also, two of the main Satanist symbols are the inverted Cross and the inverted Pentacle - Satanists defile BOTH the Christian symbol and the Pagan symbol. No one seems to think that the upside down Cross means Christians worship Satan, so why do people think that the upside down Pentacle means Witches worship Satan?
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, If I were going to pose a question on this site, it would probably be a very similar one. I'm a Jew, and for the life of me, I can't understand the Black/Jewish animosity thing. The majority of American Jews were still in Europe, being slaughtered in the Pogroms, when the United States was involved in the enslavement of Africans. Today, both groups are still marginalized in the United States. I once heard a black stand-up comic talking about the same question. His comment was that he couldn't understand why we didn't get along, especially because we're the two ethnic groups whose hair 'fros naturally. I liked that a lot.
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Fish are 'pareve.' Pareve basically means it's neither milk nor meat (like fruits and vegetables). I couldn't tell you why, but I speculate the answer is similar to the reason why, when I tell people I'm a vegetarian, they usually respond 'Oh, so you just eat fish?'
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, I had a friend in college who made the very valid point: who cares? It's okay if you were born that way, but hey - it's also okay to CHOOSE to be a lesbian...
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, In Israel, when they talk about 'Blacks,' they are not talking about Africans; they are talking about the men in the long black coats and black hats. Incidentally, there's also a smaller group of the Ultra-Orthodox who wear gold-colored hats.
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, I've had my nose pierced for about 10 years now, and yet I'm still often approached on the street and asked what my nose rings mean. It may be different for different people or cultures, but for a lot of us, wearing a nose ring simply means that we like the way nose rings look.
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, I don't know if I can give you a specific, definite answer, but I can give you some general info. First, obviously there are plenty of gay men who enjoy gender bending, otherwise the term 'drag queen' wouldn't be part of the American lexicon. In the early 20th century, it was basically illegal to be gay or lesbian. Bars were raided and patrons were thrown in jail (after having their names and addresses printed in the newspaper). The general historical context of cross-dressing is that if one member of a couple could pass for the opposite sex, then they might actually get served in a restaurant, be able to go out in public, and not get beaten up. I think that masculine-looking lesbians nowadays are also a product of both the Women's Liberation movement and the sexual revolution. In California, many women - not just lesbians - don't shave, the theory being if men don't have to shave, then why should women. Hairy armpits may not faze anyone in San Francisco, but they're sure to turn heads and garner comments in Iowa. Masculine clothing goes with the same concept - if you're more comfortable wearing flannel, then wear flannel. P.S. Just as some men prefer a tough woman like Jessica Alba to a girly woman like Cameron Diaz, or a short haired woman like Pink to a long haired woman like Julia Roberts, not lesbians want their '... partner to look feminine ...' (nor do all lesbians prefer their partners to look masculine). Long story short, there's no one type that everyone finds attractive (gay or straight), and there's no accounting for taste: everybody is SOMEBODY'S type.
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, There are a couple of reasons why Jews leave stones on headstones. The first is simply as a sort of guest book - to show that someone has been there. The second is to differentiate Jews from Christians. Jews have always had strict laws about burial - that the dead must be buried within 3 days of death - and Christians have not. This is how the custom of Christians bringing flowers began - because before embalming, when you waited to bury someone, they started to smell. That's why Jews usually do not bring flowers - bringing stones was a way of showing that we were Jews, not Christians.
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, I wish I could cite it specifically, but sometime in the past few months, I read a statistic in either Cosmopolitan or Glamour that said that, basically, Asian men are small, white men are medium and African men are large. There was no mention of Hispanic men.
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, A friend once asked me the very same question. The answer I gave her is really the simplest answer I could think of: it's like at baseball games, when they do the National Anthem and men take their hats off. Christians take their hats off to show respect; Jews put their hats on.
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, I think people also get the symbols mixed up. Somehow, they seem to know the difference when the Cross is rightside up (Christianity) versus when it is upside down (Satanism). But when they see a Pentacle, rightside up or upside down, many people just automatically think 'Satanism.'
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, I remember being a kid in religious school, and having our teacher pose the question 'If the US and Israel were at war, who would you support?' It's meant to be a head-scratcher; it's not a question with a simple answer. I can say personally that part of the allegiance with Israel has to do with safety. Remember, the Holocaust happened less than 100 years ago, and the State of Israel was basically formed in the aftermath. What of the Jews who, in the 1930s, would have said they were 'Germans' or 'Poles' before calling themselves 'Jews'? The State of Israel is a kind of insurance policy; During WWII, countries - including the US - turned away boatloads of Jewish refugees, esentially ensuring their deaths. If Hitler could happen in Germany, he could happen here as well. Even with a less sinister menace - say Bush and Congress decided to make Christianity the National Religion - the Jews always know that they will have a place where they can be free to be Jewish in Israel. And of course, Israel is the only country where Judaism is the national religion; If, for example, Catholicism were outlawed in Ireland, Irish Catholics would still have a choice of places to go to be Catholics. As to the second part of your question, about 'Jewish' as an ethnic identity, well, I agree in Judaism as a cultural identity. Judaism IS more than a religion; there is Jewish food, Jewish clothing, Jewish language (actually, three Jewish languages - Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino), there is a Jewish country ... I would be hard pressed to identify a Lutheran food, or Presbyterian clothing. I do think Catholocism might also be considered a culture, as it does meet a lot of the same criteria.
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, It doesn't matter if people are born gay or choose to be gay; it's ok to be gay ... or lesbian, or straight, or bisexual, or transgendered... etc., etc., etc. As for the gay vs. bi question... Many people belive that bisexuals are just gays who haven't come to terms with their sexuality yet. In some ways, that is true - many gays do the 'bi now, gay later' plan (that is to say, spend a period of time being self-identified as 'bi' before becoming self-identified as 'gay' - use bisexuality as a transitional period), but it's also true that there are plenty of people who are just plain bi. The Kinsey Scale rated sexuality from 0 to 6, with 0 being completely straight and 6 being completely gay, and what they found was that most people fell somewhere in between. Whether that means basically straight but had a lesbian fling in college, or basically gay but slept with a girl before they came out, in the end, it really just comes down to how you label yourself.
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, I guess the similar question to ask you would be 'What if the US were at war with Vatican City,' rather than 'What if the US were at war with Italy.'
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Name : Hope, Gender : Female, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Religion : Jewish, Age : 38, City : Pittsburgh, State : PA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, 
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