Tag: father
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The rule that shows the structure Start with the cleanest legal case in the world, because it makes the abstract point immediately visible. Jewish status passes through the mother. A child born to a Jewish woman is Jewish; a child born to a Jewish man and a non-Jewish woman is not. The rule is old,…
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There is a particular kind of cruelty that only women inflict on other women, and the contemporary West has elevated it from a social fact to a governing apparatus. I am speaking of the henflock—the horizontal, peer-enforced network of female intrasexual competition that polices women’s sexual reputations not through fathers, clerics, or law, but through…