The anatomy of a yenta

amother

↑ NeonBlue ↓

Sun, Nov 17 2024, 8:43 am

amother Broom wrote:

Are you new here? EVERYONE in the frum female entertainment industry gets picked apart here. We are equal opportunity offenders. Welcome to imamother

Wow how beautiful!!!
So much for “women supporting women”!

↑ PinkFridge ↓

Sun, Nov 17 2024, 9:26 am

Ruchel wrote:

"the anatomy" is weird already... (I don't know her)

There's a famous book, Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins, that might have started "Anatomy of a" books and more.

amother

↑ Bluebell

Sun, Nov 17 2024, 9:31 am

amother NeonBlue wrote:

If someone is named Yenta then she has lots of ouch moments in her life I’m sure. I read about the “Shtetel Yenta” in every second story. I mean just last week I think Mishpacha had an article labeled “Is Yente the shadchan not enough anymore?” , my point is, while I do see your point…. I think the only people to blame here are her parents that gave her the name without another name attached to it, so she can be called by a more accepted name.

2 wrong don't make 1 right. I disagree with Mishpacha's choice of a title.
I agree that parents should think twice before naming a child with a negative connotation. But that's really a separate discussion.
There are people named yenta by their parents.
If my name was Yenta and this thread was going on about my name I would feel so humiliated.
I believe that the author knew and possibly wanted discussion going back and forth about her title. So she got it.

amother

↑ NeonBlue ↓

Sun, Nov 17 2024, 1:42 pm

amother Bluebell wrote:

ots crazy how people twist virtue into evaluating and make Raizy sound like a real attention wh***.

I think she’s just creative and brave for sharing this part of her journey. Would you?!

amother

↑ NeonBlue ↓

Sun, Nov 17 2024, 1:43 pm

[quote="amother NeonBlue"]ots crazy how people twist virtue into evaluating and make Raizy sound like a real attention wh***.

I think she’s just creative and brave for sharing this part of her journey. Would you?![/quotei meant;
*virtue into evil

amother

Honey

Sun, Nov 17 2024, 2:07 pm

My first name is yenta but BH my father gave me another name too… when I was younger I never told anyone… as an adult I’m not embarrassed by it but I don’t advertise it either.

It’s a shame that this name has such a negative connotation to it. I’m named after my great grandmother. She was such a special person. She was a Rebetzin of a Shul and had tons of yichus and was known for her chessed and davening. She bentched for two hours while still being an extremely stylish woman. I don’t mean to derail the thread. But since the name yenta has been so negatively portrayed I feel I have to correct that a bit…

amother

Bisque

Sun, Nov 17 2024, 2:30 pm

[quote="amother NeonBlue"]

amother NeonBlue wrote:

ots crazy how people twist virtue into evaluating and make Raizy sound like a real attention wh***.

I think she’s just creative and brave for sharing this part of her journey. Would you?![/quotei meant;
*virtue into evil

Are you Raizy Fried?

amother

↑ Opal

Sun, Nov 17 2024, 2:31 pm

Without getting all emotional, can you agree that she is using Yente as a deragatory term for all women who have not done the work she did?
It's weird to do so. I do not think most self help books start by degrading the people who have not 'traveled the journey'.

↑ Ruchel

Sun, Nov 17 2024, 2:41 pm

Yenta comes from the same root as gentle.
Gens, gensis, noble family. It's a beautiful name.
Ftr it's not really used in my circle but people use yachne which is also a name, from jacinth

amother

Lime

Mon, Nov 25 2024, 9:43 am

amother Broom wrote:

Are you new here? EVERYONE in the frum female entertainment industry gets picked apart here. We are equal opportunity offenders. Welcome to imamother

It's pretty horrific.

amother

Smokey

Mon, Nov 25 2024, 5:28 pm

amother Opal wrote:

Yes it's patronizing.

And if you watch her trailer and her interview, she is actually patronizing with her words straight to the camera.

https://youtu.be/IP8LbQLUFw4?s.....Ymqig

https://www.kosher.com/article.....ance/

amother

Calendula

Mon, Nov 25 2024, 5:48 pm

amother Smokey wrote:

Yes, I watched the video promoting her new book and I felt like her tone and her words were very condescending. I don't buy a lot of books so I probably wouldn't have gotten her book either way but I was very turned off after watching that.
From her stories it looked like she sold quite a few books already. Im very happy for her. I hope the people who bought it enjoy it. Maybe she doesnt realize how she came across in that video.

amother

Cerise

Mon, Nov 25 2024, 6:05 pm

Having a daughter with the name yenti, I personally think the title is offensive.

Being that she's from the chassidishe community she should know that it's a name that is given.

I'm disappointed that there's so little caring about hurting people's feelings...

amother

Eggshell

Mon, Nov 25 2024, 6:08 pm

Im just confused as where a "yenta" comes in here
Inknow the definition of a yenta
Thats not my question
But what does being a yenta have anything to do with anatomy
And whats this whole theme of- when she was a yenta she wasnt her true self
Im confused
These two are not contradictory

amother

↑ Anemone

Mon, Nov 25 2024, 6:12 pm

amother Smokey wrote:

She's literally saying how she's been bullied as an adult (gee I wonder by whom... can't be anonymous women bashing her personally...)

↑ PinkFridge

Mon, Nov 25 2024, 6:36 pm

amother Eggshell wrote:

As I mentioned earlier, there's a book called Anatomy of an Illness. There are all sorts of movies and books, etc. called Anatomy of a something, likely inspired by that book. (Maybe Norman Cousins, a"h, was inspired by something else.)

amother

↑ NeonBlue ↓

Mon, Nov 25 2024, 8:39 pm

amother Eggshell wrote:

It's very creative I think.
I’m sure it’s explained in the book. Didn’t get my copy yet…