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| The Hotness of Male Shiksas | |
 by Molly Crabapple, March 12, 2007
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Gentile Beefcake: Should Dirty Dancing qualify as inter-religious porn?We all know the shiksa. Heartthrob of Woody Allen movies, competitor of Sheila Levine. Blonde. Skinny thigh-ed. Neurosis free. But whither her male counterpart? In Yiddish, we have no term for the sexy Aryan male. Goy doesn’t cut it. We need a specific word, as eroticized and stereotype laden, to convey a very particular object of lust.
The male shiksa, for lack of a better word, is (like the noble, broad-shouldered kibbutznik) is a stock character in Jewish girl coming of age stories. Look at Fiddler on the Roof, when Reb Tevye simply can’t accept his daughter’s desire to marry a Russian. Or Dirty Dancing. That’s practically interracial porn. Johnny (isn’t that always his name), all ripped and dumb and sullen, makes the perfect sexual stopgap to lose your virginity to before finally settling down with a dentist in Massapequa. Generations of Jewish women watch this film religiously. My boyfriend, a blond hunk of man from Erie, PA, remains oblivious to the inter-religious dynamics. Though it made him want to be a dance instructor.
In homage to the male shiksa, here’s a youtube video, which blends my favorite time period with my favorite fetish. Enjoy.
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Anonymous
Oh, But There Is...
The masculine (yiddish) term for "shiksa" is "shaygetz."
- a fellow shaygetz
Molly Crabapple
I stand educated!
I stand educated!
J. Fox
Interesting but mildly offensive
I'm an Irish Fox, not a Jewish one. I got here by searching for "male shiksa," and I appreciate your acknowledgment that there is a male counterpart.
But because of the anger and discrimination I've encountered from Jewish parents, I think I should point out that my search was roughly equivalent to an African woman searching for the female version of N*****.
The whole concept of shiksa or shaygetz is bigoted. The closest I can come in return is "Jewess," to describe a sexy Jewish girl... and it doesn't even come close; it's not a term in current usage, and could also be used to simply describe a female Jew. Especially since you attach this attraction to goyim to "coming of age stories," as if only silly girls - and pervert Woody Allen - are attracted to non-Jews, the best parallel to "shiksa" in Goy American Idiom I can come up with is "bush bunny."
Two of my first three girlfriends were "k*ke bunnies," and the German girl in between didn't last long. "K*ke bunnies" can be so sexy... One was a California Blonde, one was a New Yorker descended from Soviet Georgia; diametrically opposed personalities. Are you seeing the offense yet?
David Strauss
Re: Interesting but mildly offensive
What's offensive is that you felt the need to censor yourself. Are we not adult enough to see the real words?
justin h
a friend of mine...
who grew up in New York said he was called a Shvitza by the neighboorhood Jews growing up. I had never heard that term but figured the NY Jews might have a little bit more knowledge than their central Texas counterparts.
h.
it seems like Dirty Dancing
it seems like Dirty Dancing is on TV practically every week.
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