berliner rov: What you say about YCT is true, but not complete. The issue (at least my issue and my rabbi’s issue) with YCT is that their psakim are not informed by any kind of standard halakhic process as historically practiced by poskim. To be fair, this issue is present in many other camps, but YCT is more egregious than most because they loudly proclaim “b’shita” that extra-halakhic considerations justify the way they “push the envelope” and that those considerations in fact trump normative halakha (while at the same time carefully staying within the bounds of muttar — barely).
dd: My response to you didn’t go through before. I was probably a little to cynical. No, you don’t have to be a habitual motzi shem ra to be yeshivish. It’s just something that some yeshivish people do. Lot’s of other people do it too.