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charliehall
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I’m a bit taken aback with the emphasis on looks here. The non-Jewish world aggressively promotes superficiality, non-tzniut fashion and beauty pageants. By contrast, our tradition says, “Sheker hachen v’hevel hayofi”. Undue emphasis on physical attractiveness is chukat hagoyim and a symptom of assimilation.

I’m all for engaging with gentile culture — where it has something worthwhile to offer. Judging women primarily by physical attractiveness is not one of them!

And if our young men are only attracted to women who look like supermodels, there is something wrong with the way we are raising them. How many wives of gedolim looked like supermodels?