I stumbled onto this and was perplexed. But now I think I understand what goes on in the Upper West Side. And, yes, frankly, it's a little weird to me too, but not that weird. But I respect it, even if there's no way in hell I could adopt it. Taking the contrarian stance in a society that acts out the opposite takes (no contrarian pun intended) a good pair of balls. But if the likely result is loneliness without touch, well then goodness me.
Posted by DrMabuse at December 16, 2003 05:00 PMActually, this article was more what I had in mind:
http://jewsweek.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El711&enVersion=0&
Not everyone I knew in my UWS days were shomer nagiya but a great many could be lumped into the "Metrodox" movement (me, I flitted in and out.)
Posted by: Sarah at December 16, 2003 07:53 PM