I joined a forum for Jewish mothers called Imamother. It has been an eye opening experience to say the least. Some posters are wonderful, educated, intelligent women. The vast majority are sheltered, un- and under-educated, superstitious, and just plain mean. In between arguing over shells and kugel recipes (because those are important topics that must be discussed daily), they delight in bitching about the evil Modern Orthodox who are just so not frum enough and do not call their rabbis for every question from which baseball team to cheer for to what to do about drain catchers, complain about their kids' schools being closed for Martin Luther King Jr day (heads up dummies, it is a federal holiday), and bashing anyone who dares disagree with their rav. The Frummer Than HaShem games occur daily.
Recently a particularly smart poster was given a a week in the corner because she refused to toe the line in some fights with some charedi posters. See, she's Dati Leumi and quite educated because DL actually do educate women as opposed to raising them on a strict diet of "Let's Pretend It's 1700". The owner decided to create a new section so that everyone could explain and discuss their sect. It's supposed to be a respectful forum. The first few threads were ok, but then it came time for the main event. 2 regularly nasty posters who are also forum mods started a thread about Modern Orthodox and tzniut. It was not meant to be respectful at all. And it turned ugly before it was locked down.
And here I thought Babycenter was bad.
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