Yes, like you I hate labels as well. The only one I'll be identified by is "writer" since I've been one more than half my life, made my living from it, etc. Just "writer", not "woman writer", although that distinction is made far less often than it was in the seventies, thank goodness.
The über-Jews drive me nuts when they sanctimoniously tell me, "oh, you couldn't possibly understand what we in Israel are going through..." It's around then that I tell them that I'M a Jew, you fucking idiots...then I only stay around long enough for their spluttering apologies, because I'm not interested in who's more Jewish than I am.
This was what surprised me when I came down to Southern California for University. I'd spent my whole life not being a pariah, per se, for being Jewish, but certainly standing out like a sore thumb with the other two Jews in school. So imagine my surprise when I was not Jewish ENOUGH for the Jews of Southern California.
I think of myself as very American because I'm a mixture of Russian-Jewish immigrant stock and WASE (White-Anglo-Saxon-Episcopalian) going back to the founding of the USA. I'm proud of both sides from a cultural standpoint because both have made me who I am.
Enjoy the laziness. Wallow in it. But I don't for a minute believe you can possibly go stupid, unless, of course, numerous pics of Hotzis are placed before you for long periods of time.
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Yes, like you I hate labels as well. The only one I'll be identified by is "writer" since I've been one more than half my life, made my living from it, etc. Just "writer", not "woman writer", although that distinction is made far less often than it was in the seventies, thank goodness.
The über-Jews drive me nuts when they sanctimoniously tell me, "oh, you couldn't possibly understand what we in Israel are going through..." It's around then that I tell them that I'M a Jew, you fucking idiots...then I only stay around long enough for their spluttering apologies, because I'm not interested in who's more Jewish than I am.
This was what surprised me when I came down to Southern California for University. I'd spent my whole life not being a pariah, per se, for being Jewish, but certainly standing out like a sore thumb with the other two Jews in school. So imagine my surprise when I was not Jewish ENOUGH for the Jews of Southern California.
I think of myself as very American because I'm a mixture of Russian-Jewish immigrant stock and WASE (White-Anglo-Saxon-Episcopalian) going back to the founding of the USA. I'm proud of both sides from a cultural standpoint because both have made me who I am.
Enjoy the laziness. Wallow in it. But I don't for a minute believe you can possibly go stupid, unless, of course, numerous pics of Hotzis are placed before you for long periods of time.