https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745513/the-last-straight-woman-by-phoebe-maltz-bovy/ Opinion ed., The CJN, contributor columnist, The Globe and Mail. Half of Feminine Chaos.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
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Whereas there is also (albeit not on this platform) an *existing* coalition of OK-with-Israel to vehemently enthusiast who gather for huge *existing* events whose appeal is measurable. 'It oughta be different' well organize that then? But it doesn't come with the power to cancel what exists.
There are, as I'm not the first to observe, big differences between the US and Canadian cases. But post October 7 some of those are fading, in many respects.
What I try to convey here, and in the column linked therein, is a kind of lay-of-the-land of why things are as they are. It's more explainer than take. I think these parades are as they are because there's enthusiasm for them as they exist, paired with a sense of futility about changing course.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscula... I guess it's a 2.0 version
And I think the ongoing attacks in Toronto, which have arguable gotten worse since the ceasefire, are as much as an impetus as anything.
Defiance, against them and those who excuse them and those who tell me what I'm supposed to say and do, is why I went.
In @phoebebovy.bsky.social's argument, there is no point in replacing an Israel Day parade with a general Jewish culture parade, because Jewish culture is going to be associated with Israel by many antisemitic anti-Zionists anyway. And this is true, but for me, at least, totally beside the point.
The reality, I suspect, is that the bulk of meh-on-Israel Jews are also meh on attending a big Jewish event, not because they're 'self-hating' nor because they're distraught about Gaza but because they'd rather be doing something else, which is allowed in a free society!
I think if a coalition of event-organizing-inclined sorts want to set up a big, all-purpose Jewish cultural event in a major North American city they should have at it and I'd be into it. But would this be an instead-of, in opposition to an existing Israel event *that tens of thousands want*?
sounds great
I’m only reading this book for the TV criticism - which makes up a surprising amount of it.
Could be subtitled: Heteronorma-teevee.
Congrats @phoebebovy.bsky.social on your desiring men-ifesto.
