[Avodah] kol isha question

[Zev Sero]

On 22/03/2011 10:23 AM, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
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> http://www.kolneshama.org/no-boys-allowed-25-november-2008/
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> are viewers/ listeners who are meikel/don't hold from kol isha issues
> bound by the request of performers who don't want their own psak of
> kol isha issues violated?

It's not just a matter of kol isha, but of tznius.  These actresses don't
want to expose themselves to men in the way that they do in the movie.
Even if a person doesn't think the level of exposure is at all scandalous,
and by the world's standards it isn't, to these women what they're doing
is something they wouldn't do where men could see it, and they did it in
front of the camera on the understanding that no man would ever see it.
If a man does peep on them, even in this virtual manner, they feel violated.
To allow men to see it over the actresses' protests means that their
acting careers are effectively over; they've been deprived of a means
of expression that they enjoy and are good at, because they'll never
again be able to perform for a camera without the feeling that they've
got a male audience.  So it's just not mentchlich to violate their wish
in this way.

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