tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817618840776532991.post3773529535348513480..comments2024-03-28T09:11:03.191-07:00Comments on bikelovejones: On being Other in a world that would rather I wasn'tbikelovejoneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16141991025526354179noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817618840776532991.post-50945625948353467742018-12-01T21:51:53.157-08:002018-12-01T21:51:53.157-08:00Wow, I just happened upon your blog after attachin...Wow, I just happened upon your blog after attaching for bike notebooks but I'm glad I did. This is powerful and important reading. Thanks for writing!mc-delta-thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11917110915645725496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817618840776532991.post-14037581973296036352018-11-29T20:55:46.719-08:002018-11-29T20:55:46.719-08:00Hi, Beth --
I think what you wrote is important,...Hi, Beth -- <br /><br />I think what you wrote is important, and I'm very sorry that colleagues attacked you. I saw the video, not knowing anything about the people who made it. I thought it was clever, although I did not watch it all the way through and did not see the part where one guy "became" Freddie Mercury. That sounds completely not ok, and everyone needs to know it.<br /><br />I thank you for being brave enough to put all this out there.<br /><br />Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11947863956291859430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817618840776532991.post-65795651870881877452018-11-29T20:12:01.571-08:002018-11-29T20:12:01.571-08:00so that's what the controversy is about! i ha...so that's what the controversy is about! i haven't seen the video yet, but i've seen plenty of six13's work [sidenote: my road bike is a Cannondale six13]<br />but i haven't seen this one. yet.<br />i've seen many of their videos, so i will comment on their, um, book of business.<br />i am often disturbed. <br />perhaps it is because they hone to the orthodox line so closely that i am struck by the lack of diversity in their work. where are the women? where are the non-white Jews? were are the jews who would make me feel like i'd be welcome at their table and not behind the mechitza in the kitchen or perhaps the balcony upstairs? where?<br />i'll watch the video in the near future. i'm curious. i saw a link in an email before i saw your post. i don't expect to be thrilled.Robynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836345873601125705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817618840776532991.post-91339147800593055202018-11-28T11:34:14.749-08:002018-11-28T11:34:14.749-08:00Oh, Sari, I cannot wait to be old and pissy with y...Oh, Sari, I cannot wait to be old and pissy with you. I'll bring the beer. Love, Bethbikelovejoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16141991025526354179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817618840776532991.post-9489815851198252772018-11-28T11:30:59.427-08:002018-11-28T11:30:59.427-08:00I read your post and then I happened upon the vide...I read your post and then I happened upon the video in question just after we were talking about it. It was posted by a reform congregation in my hometown. So I clicked on it. <br /><br />My initial thoughts were forgiving. I was not seeing what you were seeing. I thought to myself - clearly they appreciate Freddie Mercury's music, surely they know Queen has seen a resurgence recently and wanted to leverage that. Cant blame them, they sure aren't alone. It is possible to respect the music even if you see the individual's life and/or life choices as sinful...<br /><br />But then... One person "became" Freddie Mercury. Taking on the moustache, the stance and movements, taking Freddie's place and that WAS uncomfortable. You cannot take a person's place part way. We were talking in class at CBH last night about how putting on one's clothes is a way of telling the world WHO we are. There is not a particular right or wrong in it, but it exists. When you put on your dockers and a button down shirt you are proclaiming who you are. Every item I put on says something about who I am, or at least how I perceive myself. When that young man put on Freddie Mercury's identity... well he was either saying he wanted to emulate Freddie Mercury and all of the fabulous gay flamboyance that comes with him and his identity or he was creating a parody, and the Parody is NOT ok. Not when you are using the music to advance your cause. <br />Lzbthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12619141821976661575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817618840776532991.post-86344953250281136462018-11-28T10:36:14.262-08:002018-11-28T10:36:14.262-08:00I hear you. I see you.
I've observed that par...I hear you. I see you. <br />I've observed that parody lyrics are, somehow, a Jewish tradition. My conservative childhood shul did a parody musical every year - "Howard Blum's Song" for Flower Drum Song, f'instance. Frank Jacobs, the parodist for Mad Magazine. And, of course, Alan Sherman. I was flabbergasted to find that the non-Jewish members of the Karamazovs had never heard of him, though of course the Jewish ones knew every word like I did.<br />So yes, it's a tradition. I hadn't intuited the "only boys can sing" part and the hurt that must have caused you and so many others. Of course each of the traditions I've grown up with have been increasingly inclusive of women and queers, and my interactions with Orthodoxy have been a strange combination of admiration and revulsion from a distance.<br />I'm sorry your colleagues have compounded your pain. Our culture, our society, and our world are in a "transitional moment" for the next few decades or centuries; all I can hope is that the arc of history, while long, bends towards righteousness. Love, hHoward Pattersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15952309059847222988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817618840776532991.post-30596913954961416882018-11-28T10:29:41.374-08:002018-11-28T10:29:41.374-08:00I shared my thoughts on your FB page, so I won'...I shared my thoughts on your FB page, so I won't repeat them here. <br /><br />I am sorry your professional peers are so rigid. I cannot even begin to imagine how they reconcile their rigidity with the lessons I remember from Judaism. To learn. To teach. To grow. <br /><br />All that being said, we can be old and angry together. I expect that, at some future time, I will open my home to like minded angry women so that we can support and keep each other safe as we continue to Learn, Teach, and Grow. Sarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09609164246941031973noreply@blogger.com