Reply To: Imposing too much hashkafa on BTs

I have also seen frum people listen to wrap music and use it as inspiration after a hard day of learning. I use it to cope. Rap is expressive. Most jewish songs although nice and beautiful, are not truly expressive of the raging hormones of a young aduly. They may be criminals, but one thing I can tell you is that they are expressive and I need to learn to be more expressive. Bottling emotions and pretending to be someone I am not and pretending to fit into a cookie cutter mold is what got me out of this mess. Being expressive and breaking apart that metal that shaped me into a pleated skirt and cardigan that has no hobbies or passions breaking out of that will get me out. I like dresses. Yet the cookie cutter told me I needed to wear a skirt under my dresses without a skirt I was incomplete. The cookie cutter told me maxi dresses were assur. Clearly wearing a dress that is long enough for me to wear shorter socks that don’t go up to my thighs but rather are like the ones at target should not be an aveira if there are no leggings to go with them. You know, its actually funny, but last I checked, junees started selling colorful skirts and everyone has been buying them. Clearly something is changing in heimishe society and its not just me.