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In reply to the discussion: Delta flight from JFK Airport delayed after Jewish passengers refuse to sit next to women [View all]LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)70. They don't use any birth control
and the women are raised to buy into this as they're raised to be wives and mothers. From what I've read, considering all the rules around menstruation and sex it appears to me that there's a limited time every month they can have sexual relations - and it wouldn't surprise me if it coincides with when she's most fertile. Several kids per ultra-orthodox family is normal.
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Delta flight from JFK Airport delayed after Jewish passengers refuse to sit next to women [View all]
Jesus Malverde
Dec 2014
OP
Just what I thought. Good for those women. Let the mysoginists work it out for themselves.
OregonBlue
Dec 2014
#82
Prominent Washington, D.C. rabbi secretly filmed women bathing: police
GreatCaesarsGhost
Dec 2014
#113
Yep, I've heard that in the ultra fundamentalists synagogues, women are not allowed to be next to
dissentient
Dec 2014
#13
Yep, my attitude is people can believe whatever they want, as long as it doesn't
dissentient
Dec 2014
#21
what if the airline offered you a huge voucher just to change seats like they will?
Sunlei
Dec 2014
#61
They were flying over a cemetary at the time, and didn't want dead-person cooties.
arcane1
Dec 2014
#38
I wonder if the rule extends into orbit. What if they were on the Space Station?
arcane1
Dec 2014
#43
Why was there any delay? They should have been thrown off of the plane immediately.
Chakab
Dec 2014
#77
Let them fly chartered planes if they think they're going to get cooties from women
Warpy
Dec 2014
#85
I think it's fine if the cabin crew tries to accommodate these passengers (and any other
petronius
Dec 2014
#89