Tablet, a prominent “online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture,” has sparked an outcry over an essay published Monday blaming the downfall of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein in part on his Judaism. In a piece titled “The Specifically Jewy Perviness of Harvey Weinstein,” editor at large Mark Oppenheimer insisted that Harvey’s specific cases of sexual harassment were part of larger “revenge fantasies on the Goyim.” The Twitterverse was not pleased. “No matter how PC the world gets, ripping on Jews has never gone out of style,” wrote one commenter. Oppenheimer defended his take. “Maybe it came too early for some,...
- 10/10/2017
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Though sex and relationship advice columnist Dan Savage is frequently taken to task by finger-wagging conservatives for his often-unorthodox views on coupledom, according to a terrific seven-page piece entitled "Married, With Infidelities" published in this weekend's New York Times Magazine, the openly-gay author, media personality, and creator of the life-saving "It Gets Better" Project isn't nearly as subversive as his reputation suggests.
"It Gets Better is, in the end, a paean to stable families: it is a promise to gay youth that if they can just survive the bullying, they can have spouses and children when they grow up", writes the piece's author, Mark Oppenheimer. "With Savage, the goal is always the possibility of stable, adult families, for gays and straights alike. He is capable of pro-family rants that, stripped of his habitual profanity, would be indistinguishable from Christian-right fund-raising letters."
And yet according to Oppenheimer, the reason Savage has...
"It Gets Better is, in the end, a paean to stable families: it is a promise to gay youth that if they can just survive the bullying, they can have spouses and children when they grow up", writes the piece's author, Mark Oppenheimer. "With Savage, the goal is always the possibility of stable, adult families, for gays and straights alike. He is capable of pro-family rants that, stripped of his habitual profanity, would be indistinguishable from Christian-right fund-raising letters."
And yet according to Oppenheimer, the reason Savage has...
- 7/1/2011
- by Chris Eggertsen
- The Backlot
Slate.com managed to snag TheWrap's Ridiculous Royal Wedding Coverage of the Day award on Tuesday with Mark Oppenheimer's call to boycott Friday's nuptials between Prince William and Kate Middleton. A sound idea, in itself -- until Oppenheimer matches the hysteria of Royal Wedding Fever sufferers with his own delirious suggestions. In a dizzying essay that sprawls over 1,200 water-brained words, Oppenheimer not only opines that watching the ceremony is tantamount to treason. He also reveals that -- gasp! -- the Jews, the blacks and the gays are conspiring to undermine America's...
- 4/27/2011
- The Wrap
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