You said: "Is the cultural obsession with Jewish women a testament to our greatness, or a sign of our marginalization?"Cultural obsession? You must be dreaming. This "obsession" you speak of is purely fictional. It exists solely in the minds of Jewish bloggers, Jewish journalists, and Jewish writers. These are the daydreams of a small group of Jews writing stories for other Jews and for an even smaller philo-semitic constituency. Your very blog entry is the epitome of the type of incestuous intellectual schlock I describe: Chris Noxon writes a story, Member of the Tribe Leah Berkenwald responds with a story, and it soon dominoes into 4,000 other Jewish or philo-semitic stories trumpeting the validity of the initial fairy-tale. It's both incestuous and masturbatory, not to mention completely delusional.So where is this "obsession" with ethnic Jewish women? In my 28 years on the planet I have never seen it. Please, let's be honest here. Ethnic Jewish chicks from Long Island or Staten Island are some of the least desirable creatures on the planet. I don't know a single soul who has a burning "obsession" for these ethnic LI and SI women.Non-ethnic Jewish women are a different story. Non-ethnic Jewish women such as Scarlett Johansson, Kate Hudson, or Rachel Bilson are sometimes attractive and desirable. But, we all know their level of physical attractiveness has nothing to do with how Jewish they are. These "Jewish" starlets are over hyped precisely because they are so phenotypically different due to their recent mixed ancestry. That being said, women with comely faces and nicely shaped bodies are desirable regardless of ethnicity. If we are all being honest here, without reverting to the knee-jerk reaction of accusing me of Antisemitism, we can agree there are very few poor souls fetishizing ethnic Long Island Jews. And for Jews to take the Danish Scarlett Johansson or Kate Hudson as examples of the world craving Jewish women, only makes Jews look desperately stupid. Comparing these non-ethnics to what comes out of LI and SI is moronic and ludicrous. Sad but true, in the U.S. the less ethnic the more attractive.As a side note, right out of college I lived in Israel for a year working for Intel. OH MY GOSH! The women in Israel are smoking hot. I couldn't believe it. They are the hottest women on the planet next to Brazilian women. There are no fat chicks there, save a few Russian Jews. The ethnic rule DOES NOT apply in Israel. The more ethnic the sabra is the hotter. Especially the Sephardi and Mizrahi girls, 9 out of 10 of these women are sheer perfection. The worst looking girls are a few Russians and the bulk are 1st generation Americans whose parents were from New York, Florida, or Michigan, almost exclusively Ashkenazi (think LI/SI). The great looking Ashkenazi sabras have been there since 1948 or before and have mixed in well. The two best looking girls I have ever seen in my life were in Israel. 1 was pure Sephardi/Mizrahi of Iraqi and Egyptian Jewish stock. The other was Ashkenazi/Mizrahi of Romanian and Kurdish Jewish stock. The girl with Romanian ancestry had the most amazing black hair, tan/light-brown complexion, and freckles I have ever seen. Freckles... I miss Israeli freckles.
You said: "Is the cultural obsession with Jewish women a testament to our greatness, or a sign of our marginalization?"Cultural obsession? You must be dreaming. This "obsession" you speak of is purely fictional. It exists solely in the minds of Jewish bloggers, Jewish journalists, and Jewish writers. These are the daydreams of a small group of Jews writing stories for other Jews and for an even smaller philo-semitic constituency. Your very blog entry is the epitome of the type of incestuous intellectual schlock I describe: Chris Noxon writes a story, Member of the Tribe Leah Berkenwald responds with a story, and it soon dominoes into 4,000 other Jewish or philo-semitic stories trumpeting the validity of the initial fairy-tale. It's both incestuous and masturbatory, not to mention completely delusional.So where is this "obsession" with ethnic Jewish women? In my 28 years on the planet I have never seen it. Please, let's be honest here. Ethnic Jewish chicks from Long Island or Staten Island are some of the least desirable creatures on the planet. I don't know a single soul who has a burning "obsession" for these ethnic LI and SI women.Non-ethnic Jewish women are a different story. Non-ethnic Jewish women such as Scarlett Johansson, Kate Hudson, or Rachel Bilson are sometimes attractive and desirable. But, we all know their level of physical attractiveness has nothing to do with how Jewish they are. These "Jewish" starlets are over hyped precisely because they are so phenotypically different due to their recent mixed ancestry. That being said, women with comely faces and nicely shaped bodies are desirable regardless of ethnicity. If we are all being honest here, without reverting to the knee-jerk reaction of accusing me of Antisemitism, we can agree there are very few poor souls fetishizing ethnic Long Island Jews. And for Jews to take the Danish Scarlett Johansson or Kate Hudson as examples of the world craving Jewish women, only makes Jews look desperately stupid. Comparing these non-ethnics to what comes out of LI and SI is moronic and ludicrous. Sad but true, in the U.S. the less ethnic the more attractive.As a side note, right out of college I lived in Israel for a year working for Intel. OH MY GOSH! The women in Israel are smoking hot. I couldn't believe it. They are the hottest women on the planet next to Brazilian women. There are no fat chicks there, save a few Russian Jews. The ethnic rule DOES NOT apply in Israel. The more ethnic the sabra is the hotter. Especially the Sephardi and Mizrahi girls, 9 out of 10 of these women are sheer perfection. The worst looking girls are a few Russians and the bulk are 1st generation Americans whose parents were from New York, Florida, or Michigan, almost exclusively Ashkenazi (think LI/SI). The great looking Ashkenazi sabras have been there since 1948 or before and have mixed in well. The two best looking girls I have ever seen in my life were in Israel. 1 was pure Sephardi/Mizrahi of Iraqi and Egyptian Jewish stock. The other was Ashkenazi/Mizrahi of Romanian and Kurdish Jewish stock. The girl with Romanian ancestry had the most amazing black hair, tan/light-brown complexion, and freckles I have ever seen. Freckles... I miss Israeli freckles.