Beth's Blog

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318724022011-07-28T17:49:50.891-05:00Beth's BlogYes, I'm frum. Yes, I have a Y chromosome. No, my name is not really Beth. If you have other questions along those lines, though, this is probably the place to ask them.Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15786484393097563710noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31872402.post-31021934614035237452008-06-24T09:34:00.002-05:002008-06-24T09:45:57.132-05:00It's been a while

Odd. I haven't even thought about this blog for a while. Now I see that I abandoned it after one post, almost 2 years ago.The only reason I really looked it up again was that I saw that pilot for Pretty/Handsome, and felt like writing something about it. But now that I think about it, I wonder how I managed to get through the past couple of years without venting here.This month has been

Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15786484393097563710noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31872402.post-42978167902236171122008-06-24T09:31:00.002-05:002008-06-24T09:34:23.655-05:00Pretty/Handsome

There's a review of it here, but you'll probably have to scroll down for it.Pretty/Handsome is a new show on FX that stars Joseph Fiennes (from Shakespeare in Love) as a married guy with two kids who finds himself in that wonderful world we call TS Crash.I downloaded the leaked pilot and watched it last night. It's good. Not perfect, but it's never going to be. Still, there's no question in my

Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15786484393097563710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31872402.post-1154458633430836522006-08-01T13:29:00.000-05:002006-08-01T13:57:13.456-05:00I wasn't actually going to do this.

Does anyone really need to know that there are transfolk who are frum? What good can come from that? Frum gays and lesbians have enough of a hard time in the frum community... those of us who have changed sex aren't even on the radar.So much of the Torah depends on whether a person is male or female. And even if the modern Western world is all about blurring distinctions, the Torah is about

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