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Ron Obvious

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20. I understand

Reply to alittlelark (Reply #19)

Thu May 3, 2012, 01:12 AM

May 2012

No, I understand; I spoke hastily-- no offence intended. I'm old enough to remember hearing the ground-breaking advice about using a mirror as well.

Still, though, you found out around the time you probably began puberty. I find it harder to understand a 17 year-old, after being explicitly told NOT to look down there, well not looking down there. Especially when she must have felt stirrings. Maybe I'm still being naive.

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Young woman writes of her escape from a Brooklyn Hasidic Jewish community. [View all] pnwmom May 2012 OP

Instead of beating peaceful protesters Drale May 2012 #1

Wow, going on right there in the Big Apple. That's something. Didn't attend public school, I guess. freshwest May 2012 #2

I don't get why these cults are tolerated. Odin2005 May 2012 #3

Most cults are not this oppressive. You're insulting cults. nt ZombieHorde May 2012 #4

No sarcasm tag Confusious May 2012 #13

I did not include a sarcasm tag because I was not being sarcastic. ZombieHorde May 2012 #14

The most dangerous cult of all runs the country. Zalatix May 2012 #21

They are secretive siligut May 2012 #6

Communities like this one need to be exposed siligut May 2012 #5

For a while I had a Hasidic boss in Lakewood, New Jersey. UnrepentantLiberal May 2012 #7

I think hardcore fundamentalists of every stripe are equally difficult. n/t pnwmom May 2012 #8

Yup. UnrepentantLiberal May 2012 #9

I agree - my husband has noted here in TX he has encountered religious TBF May 2012 #24

No idea she had a vagina? Ron Obvious May 2012 #10

No one ever told me to "look down there"! pnwmom May 2012 #12

Nobody ever told me to look down there either.............. TheDebbieDee May 2012 #16

Communications very different between me and my daughter, too pnwmom May 2012 #18

Now that you mention it... Ron Obvious May 2012 #17

This message was self-deleted by its author thesquanderer May 2012 #15

When you 'look down there' you see external sexual organs. alittlelark May 2012 #19

I understand Ron Obvious May 2012 #20

You are being naive. You do not understand how religious groups raise girls. alittlelark May 2012 #22

True, it is alien to me. Ron Obvious May 2012 #23

A friend of my grandmother's had several children before Lydia Leftcoast May 2012 #30

She's so brave. K&R for more exposure. I haven't read the book but her story is very compelling nt riderinthestorm May 2012 #11

Some of this seems far-fetched. Iris May 2012 #25

I know fundies who are allowed all the online time they want XemaSab May 2012 #26

I'm still suspicious. Iris May 2012 #27

Sad story. I will have to watch out for this memoir. nt BlueIris May 2012 #28

I just read this book last week obamanut2012 May 2012 #29

What are the controversies? Iris May 2012 #31

There is a Facebook page set up to sabotage Amazon revews obamanut2012 May 2012 #32

Interesting. Iris May 2012 #33