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From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer)
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Subject: Re: Headhunters, hearthunters.
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Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 19:57:49 EST
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Summary: racial stereotypes not appreciated

> Since your Mother is Jewish, she understands the idea of Mitzvot,
> doing good deeds.  The key idea is that the individual *chooses*
> (of his own free will) to do good deeds.  When someone *tells*
> you what to do, they rob you of an opportunity to do a Mitzvah.
> The very same act on your part, which would have made you feel
> good had you chosen to do it, now makes you feel bad because
> you are doing someone else's bidding, which creates a superior-
> subordinate relationship. Bad Karma.  (Incidentally "karma" and
> "mitzvah" mean the same thing--deeds.)  
> 
> I say to my (Jewish) Mother:  I'll make you a deal:  My brain runs
> my body and your brain runs your body.  Please don't rob me of my
> free will.  In return for your pledge to allow me to have free will,
> I promise to use it constructively, to help myself and others, and
> to avoid hurting anyone or anything.  Deal?  (How can she refuse?)
> 

I think that this is a negative racial steotype against Jewish women
and their approach to motherhood.  I don't see that Jewish mothers are
any more manipulative than mothers of any other race or national
background.  It has been very common for stage comedians to put down
Jewish women, and to create a negative racial stereotype.  However,
as a Jewish woman, I know some Jewish women who have children and who are
very fine, dedicated mothers raising very fine children.