Chacham2

One gift on the first night. Are there really people who got a gift every night?

How spoilt…

Women have been driving since horseless carriages were invented. Since when was driving considered to be a “mans job”? I don’t understand this whole issue, and noones yet given an explanation beyond “some rabbanim forbid it”. Noones managed to yet explain how exactly it is untzniyus.

As far as I see it, this is chumros gone wild. I’m not even going to be one of those who commend the women who dont drive. It seems silly to me.

I don’t understand how it could be a problem talking to people here? The issur is getting too close and crossing the line of tzniyus with a woman. This is an anonymous webforum. There’s no pictures or even avatars. There is no issur of sending a woman an email either.

Cantoresq: What kind of identity theft do you think could happen from saying what city you live in?

People have been made too scared by the media.

noitallmr: Dunno. I don’t own one, I’ve just tried it out at the Apple Store.

jphone: It works just fine as a phone. Whats the question?

jewishfeminist02: I agree, a child of seven shouldnt be playing a wrestling game. But give him a sport, puzzle or adventure game and thats time well spent.

As for statistics: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050815-5205.html

And this is also interesting reading on the subject: http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/goldstein.html

Even the most realistic video games are still obviously cartoonish. They don’t look like real life scenes. I’d rather my kids play violent games than watch movies.

What I can’t ever understand is the tendency of some parents to consider a movie “kosher” if it contains shooting and violence, as long as it doesnt contain any immorality.

They don’t. You can call it bittul torah, but they don’t create an inclination to violence. They may bring out violent tendencies that already existed, but 20+ years of violent games being played by kids all over the world has pretty much disproven any knee-jerk reaction to try and claim that playing violent games causes kids to become violent.

Frankly, I think kids should play games rather than watch TV and stuff. I learned alot from games growing up, problem solving skills, logical thinking and the like. A good adventure or rpg game provides hours of wholesome entertainment.

Now I expect to be drowned out in a sea of people telling me I’m wrong with no real proof or reason.

There’s nothing wrong with accidentally touching a woman on a crowded bus. He should have given her his seat. To think that its better an old woman should stand on a bus or train than a bochur should rub shoulders with a woman is ludicrous.