[Avodah] Tzeni'us and gender roles

David Riceman driceman at att.net
Tue Aug 11 12:20:20 PDT 2009


Micha Berger wrote:
> No, it's both. It's justifying innovaiton in the face of loss of
> tzeni'us. Justifying innovation requires the pros outweighing the cons
> to the point of having sufficient motive.
>   
But the argument is much stronger in the absence of tznius.  After all 
there can be lots of reasons to avoid innovation unless you need it.  
Your invocation of tznius as the unique motivating reason is very 
suspicious, for all sorts of reasons that several people have pointed out.

David Riceman



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