Posted on 10/25/2013 2:20:15 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Smart women don’t show cleavage — or at least that’s what one high-powered Manhattan law firm is telling its female employees.
The legal firm Clifford Chance sent female associates a bizarre memo advising them to stop giggling, squirming and showing cleavage while speaking in public, irking female employees who called the tips sexist, the legal news website Abovethelaw.com reports.
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They’s new school.
In what way is it anti-Semitic or bigoted to be aware of or comment about the accents of an ethnic group? And the Yiddish intonation in English IS a Jewish accent because only Jews speak Yiddish.
I didn’t say it was bigoted. I suggested looking at it because it edges on the bigoted.
Stating that a valley girl accent is very annoying and so is Yiddish and then to say they are directly related based on opinion and no fact is ignorant and, as such, borders on the bigoted.
And Yiddish is an Eastern European accent used primarily by the Jews of that area, who were driven out by anti-Semites, is not a ‘Jewish accent’. You can say it is, but it sounds bigoted.
Your comments make no sense. A language created by and used only by Jews is a Jewish language, and it is recognized as such by them. I don’t think you know what the word bigoted means.
I don’t think you know that is sounds bigoted to say that Tori Spelling and her peers created an annoying accent based on the Yiddish that her grandfather spoke.
I live in the real world. I live a conservative life with a conservative wife. The last thing I want to come home to after a hard day of work is a complete bitch of a wife. I work with women. They try their best to act like men. They are unhappy, confused, and unlady like. They are not feminine. They feel guilty about working instead of caring for their children.
My wife is very smart and worldly. She graduated college with a 3.8 GPA in CompSci. She worked until we had kids. She homeschooled our children and does many things in the community. She acts like a woman, not some feminst nutjob. The latter is what is screwed up about our country. There are entirely too many gender bending liberal women that condone abortion, faggots, lesbos, transvestites and men that act like wussies. In today's world it takes much more strength, conviction, sacrafice and courage to live a conservative life than to go along with the morally weak.
As does husband.
The last thing I want to come home to after a hard day of work is a complete bitch of a wife. I work with women. They try their best to act like men.
Maybe you need to stop working with women. You don't seem to have much respect for them other than in the bedroom, nursery or kitchen.
I personally don't care about the worldliness or GPA of your wife. I have been self employed for over 25 years, and our 15 year old daughter is a very intelligent, modest, well rounded, feminine young lady who enjoys helping me out with my community involvement and also has some of her own.
She acts like a woman, not some feminst(sic) nutjob.
If you are attempting to imply I do not, you have absolutely no clue, which is what I had gathered from your original post.
The latter is what is screwed up about our country.
I won''t argue with that position, because I agree. However, there are plenty of women that do not fit your definition but you are too blind to see beyond your own misogyny.
I am not blind. Your posts are proof positive of what happens when women work. Show some respect.
I’m with Kabumpo here. There’s nothing anti-Semitic about observing a commonality between a certain population and its forbears, and wondering if there may be a link.
Well, wondering if there may be a link couldn’t possibly be bigoted.
I wondered, after Kabumpo’s assertion of fact, and found none. I even listened to a recording of Aaron Spelling in an interview, and found that his speech was role model excellent, with a slight Yiddish accent, and no elevated terminus.
But you did not read the entire exchange, or you are asserting something that is not true.
I would never say someone was edging on bigotry for wondering about a connection, and I did not do so.
Somewhere there’s a moving GIF of that “appearance”.
Excuse me......kindly explain that bit of "enlightenment" or whatever you think your superiority was trying to convey.
Show some respect.
I show respect when it is deserved, I have yet to see where you have said anything to deserve any. In fact, you are the one who needs to learn how to show respect.
OP stated “I maintain that”, meaning that the assertion is a theory of his/hers. And I see nothing wrong with that, nor with referring to Yiddish as a Jewish language.
You may disagree with the assertion, but that doesn’t make it bigoted. It is correct that there was a large population of Jews settled in the area, and there is a commonality in that both accents include an uptick in pitch at the end of sentences.
I disagree with the assertion. Of course I do. I did the research as well.
The problem with your argument is that it wavers. Look at it.
First you say it was a wondering, which is not factual. Now you say assertion, as if that was your original point.
Wondering and maintaining are two different thing.
You can say you agree with the point maintained, but you are both in dream land because it is an opinion, not a fact, and there are zero facts behind the opinion.
No, I don’t actually agree with the point made. But a pet theory can indeed be described as both a wondering and an assertion. “I maintain” implies lack of proof, but only a conclusion drawn from inconclusive evidence.
And it certainly isn’t anti-Semitic or bigoted.
Nope. I maintain means there is more than an opinion, it implies an opinion based on measurable data.
The fact is that there is NO data to imply that there is a connection between the two dialects.
If you read the initial assertion, and do not sense an edge of bigotry, that is, opinion based on ill feelings and no facts, then we’re done here.
Thank you, 9YearLurker.
You’re welcome—that’s the kind of bigotry paranoia that’s supposed to happen on liberal sites.
Well, not just her grandfather, many, many grandfathers and grandmothers. I wasn’t the one who said it was annoying. I said I didn’t care for it. Do I have to like everything? I believe I can like or not like whatever I choose - I also don’t like the sound of Portuguese. And Ohio accents. And the way some people in the midwest pronounce chocolate as chahklet instead of chalklet. And the way chefs on all the tv cooking shows mispronounce the herb basil with A long a like basement instead of the correct way, with a short A like basket.
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