A few years ago, Erin
and Adri covered the politics of Christmas and how the series was
designed around this loose idea of cultural Christianity, even in
the wizarding world. Today, we expand on this theme of cultural
Christianity as default by
having a conversation about what it's like to be a Jewish person
living in a majority Christian world with special guest Shoshana,
who gives us glimpses of being Jewish in the UK, and with our own
Helene, who gives us glimpses of growing up Jewish in the U.S.
While these are just two accounts of women living in cultures that
have embraced Christianity as a default (think about calendars,
holidays, food (kosher vs not), depictions of Judaism in the media,
etc.).
Our
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We talk about how it would look like if Umbridge had been written
as a man, thus expanding our Girl Who Lived universe. Would this
male Umbridge be hyper-masculine? Would we find his actions more or
less reprehensible? Is your hosts' absolute hatred for female
Umbridge based on internalized misogyny?