The Magical Ingredient

[debka_notion]

I think I've found the magical ingredient for generating tons of comments on LJ, at least among my friend- circle, and it is very simple-

Talk about head-covering and/or ritual-wear and gender.

I guess people with those interests tend to congregate.

I think other halakhic concerns might get close- so, here's one I need to do some research into- what has the status of a shoe, and the acceptability going barefoot during (davening on) Yom Kippur.

Comments

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

i also think that women wearing yarmulkas looks weird. or at least i did.
then i saw men with long hair wearing yarmulkas and realized that it's not the sex/gender, it's the length of the hair that bothers me. yarmulkas go with short hair! :-P

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

The question that begs asking, then, is: what you think of men with long hair?

I.e. do you associate yarmulkas with short hair primarily, and therefore a woman with short hair and a kippah looks reasonably right, or do you associate long hair with women, and therefore a man with long hair and a kippah looks wrong?

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

originally, i dunno. you'd have to pull one of those "latent racism" style image-flash-word-association tests on me to see what it is. but at this point in my life, having known many men with long hair, and a somewhat smaller number of women with long or short hair who wear yarmulkas, i feel like it's definitely the hair-length that does it.