Being in the newspapers

Posted: Tue, Feb 26 2008, 8:16 am Post subject: Being in the newspapers

A girl recently contacted me. She is a journalist out of a prestigious French school, and she has won the first prize for her work last year (thanks google!) and the first prize for young journalists when she finished her school (google again). She appears on French, English and Italian sites. She has written on squatters, French elections, image of Turkey in Europe… her new topic? The “neo housewives”. They’re young, they’re educated, and they don’t care about May 68, career and not being in the mainstream.

That’s me. But do I want to be in the paper with my photo and all? Is there a risk of chillul Hashem, or do I just not mention that I’m Jewish?

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Posted: Tue, Feb 26 2008, 1:10 pm Post subject: re: Being in the newspapers

been there done that,,,,,,,,,,,,,,to the max.
all I can say is, that it caused the hugest ayin hara I could NEVER have ever have imagined.

Posted: Tue, Feb 26 2008, 1:12 pm Post subject: re: Being in the newspapers

oysh... can you tell me more, or pm me? what did you do exactly, what happened...

Posted: Tue, Feb 26 2008, 3:05 pm Post subject: re: Being in the newspapers

I would do it anonymously. I would say it is ayin hara.

Posted: Tue, Feb 26 2008, 3:10 pm Post subject: re: Being in the newspapers

what's may 68?

In response to your question, I would not put my name or picture in there.

Posted: Tue, Feb 26 2008, 3:28 pm Post subject: re: Being in the newspapers

LOL you don't know may 68?
I'm sure that would have interested her, interviewing someone who doesn't know it happened!

who can explain better than me may 68 in English? the rebellion against anything traditional/conservative...

Posted: Tue, Feb 26 2008, 3:28 pm Post subject: re: Being in the newspapers

just be aware that she will use what she wants, and maybe take your words out of context, and you have no control over what she writes.

dh refuses to talk to newpapers any more since they always misquote him, or twist things around.

Posted: Tue, Feb 26 2008, 3:29 pm Post subject: re: Being in the newspapers

good point raisin... maybe I should tell her I want to read what she writes before it's published?

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how about in a jewish paper...would u have ur pic in there??
last yr. I was at an event me,my dh,my bro,and my sil...and they took a pic of us and put it in the paper...curios on ur thoughts on that

Posted: Wed, Jun 18 2008, 4:09 pm Post subject: re: Being in the newspapers

I don't make a difference for a Jewish newsp.

By the way, it's out now. The pic isn't so good, Mati doesn't even look at the camera, but yeah. The article is very condensed by the right ideas are there.

I will translate it for you, [my thoughts between brackets]

"Ruchel", 23, Mytown (my postal code), mother of Mathilde, 1 year

Force myself to work to look normal?

Many people say housewives are submitted to their husband. It's the cliché of the wife who brings the beer [I don't remember saying that, but something similar probably]. Here, the housework is 50/50; David, Mathilde's father, cooks better than I do [actually I don't cook]. And if one day I decide to work, he will support me. We are very pious and and attached to the family as the core of the community. We want 5 or 6 children, that's why I started early! I got married young, at 21. It won't prevent me from getting my English master.

I always get comments like "A clever girl like you, you can't stay home". I won't force myself to work to look normal. The interest of feminism is to do what you want. We should concentrate on important things, like the difference between how men and women are paid.

The other interviewed housewives are a middle 30's who stopped a management carrier and is judged for that and searches for a job without enthusiasm, a late 20's whose father was already a stay at home dad and whose husband works and helps at home (she says it's hard to be a mom and harder even to be pregnant and wants people to know it, and enjoys her 3 yrs maternity leave before going back to work), another late 20's who stopped working because she was the smaller salary but her husband would have stopped if it was the contrary (she regrets the lack of intellectual challenge and being alone/without adults so she'll get a job soon).
All agreed with similar working time, housework and childcare needs to be 50/50.

Pm me for the link.