#MaltipooMonday: How 2020 Started Off For Reilly, Etc..

And, yes, Reilly is a proud MaltiJew even when she's too sleepy to give "Momma" kisses to acknowledge her Yiddishkeit.

Commentary: Yes, She Was Around Him. What May Have Happened If She Weren't May Have Been Worse. Ask Salma Hayek, For Example

With Harvey Weinstein finally being held to account for the various rapes and other acts of sexual abuse that he committed, so, too, are his victims being held accountable...for being abuse victims.

For example (and being a survivor of childhood abuse, although thankfully not childhood sexual abuse, I had to reply when one person held Harvey Weinstein's victims accountable for something that they did not do):

Look more closely at the pictures. Rose McGowan and Meryl Streep, e.g., are clearly not comfortable being around Harvey Weinstein.

— N.V. Mara Czarnecki (@Nickidewbear) January 6, 2020

A common fallacy is, "If (s)he's around him (her), (s)he must not really be being abused." Many abuse victims stay around their abusers because they are Stockholmed and/or they dread what might happen if they don't.

— N.V. Mara Czarnecki (@Nickidewbear) January 6, 2020

Being an abuse victim is not a choice or in any other way something that an abuse victim does. After all, for instance, nobody chooses to be sexually abused or have their kneecaps broken, let alone have their taken altogether for that matter (as if rape isn't its own form of murder):

"“He told me he wanted to kill me,” Hayek told Winfrey. “He said to Julie Taymor [the director of ‘Frida’], ‘I am going to break the kneecaps of that ‘c-word’.”" (Brackets in the original)

"I had brainwashed myself into thinking that it was over and that I had survived; I hid from the responsibility to speak out with the excuse that enough people were already involved in shining a light on my monster. I didn’t consider my voice important, nor did I think it would make a difference...

"I don’t think he hated anything more than the word “no.” The absurdity of his demands went from getting a furious call in the middle of the night asking me to fire my agent for a fight he was having with him about a different movie with a different client to physically dragging me out of the opening gala of the Venice Film Festival, which was in honor of “Frida,” so I could hang out at his private party with him and some women I thought were models but I was told later were high-priced prostitutes.

"The range of his persuasion tactics went from sweet-talking me to that one time when, in an attack of fury, he said the terrifying words, “I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.”" 

Even Salma Hayek fell for the "Since I was around him, I wasn't really being abused" fallacy in light of all that, however:

"I had to say yes. By now so many years of my life had gone into this film. We were about five weeks into shooting, and I had convinced so many talented people to participate. How could I let their magnificent work go to waste?
"I had asked for so many favors, I felt an immense pressure to deliver and a deep sense of gratitude for all those who did believe in me and followed me into this madness. So I agreed to do the senseless scene."

She recognized this:

"It was soul crushing because, I confess, lost in the fog of a sort of Stockholm syndrome, I wanted him to see me as an artist: not only as a capable actress but also as somebody who could identify a compelling story and had the vision to tell it in an original way."

With the fallacy being, "(S)he wasn't being abused by him (her), or else she wouldn't be around him (her), the actual case is, "(S)he continues to be around him (her) because (s)he's Stockholmed and/or in dread of what (s)he might or will do."

If Rose McGowan's, Meryl Streep's, and Salma Hayek's cases don't convince you of that, look at the cases of Jerry Sandusky's victims (whom were male victims of a male abuser and, even though they are survivors, will never fully recover from what was done to them in this lifetime—and what sexual-abuse victim, especially any rape victim, ever really recovers from the abuse that she or he has to endure?).

If not even the cases of Jerry Sandusky's victims convince you, look at those of Michael Jackson's victims (notwithstanding that the cases of Wade Robson and one other person are apparently questionable). If not even those cases convince you, go back to looking at cases of male-against-female abuse and start with the case of Andrea Constand (By the way, yes, Bill Cosby also abused children, as then-teenager victims of his were obviously teenagers and obviously therefore children—and one of them was Nicolle Rochelle, whom was actually a preteen when she first had to be around him).

Either way, your choice to believe or disbelieve sexual-abuse (and other abuse) victims whom continue to be around their abusers will not change the fact that sexual-abuse (and other abuse) victims continue to be around their abusers because they've been Stockholmed and/or threatened within every inch of their lives by those whom'd they'd otherwise gladly escape. 

A Special Card From Reilly

Commentary: A Prophecy and Exhortation(? If So, Blessed Be Yehovah)

Keep in mind that this was all originally a thread, by the way. Please read every tweet if possible. Also, do not let this be to me. Let the glory be to Yehovah.

(PS I call the New Testament both the B'rit Chadashah and Yigdal, thus why this blog entry is tagged as such.).

"And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes... https://t.co/04Lj50k7li

— N.V. Mara Czarnecki (@Nickidewbear) January 3, 2020

A Belated Card From Reilly

PS Reilly and "Momma" observed both on the night when most others were observing Zot Chanukah, anyway.

Final Commentary For 2019: The Recent Attacks On Jews Have Had Nothing To Do With Religious Bigotry...

They instead have had everything to do with ethnic bigotry. With the desecration of matzevot in the Žilna, Slovakia-area town of Rajec to the stabbings that happened in Monsey, New York (all with the ablestically-pulled "He has a mental illness" card to literally add insult to injury—despite that the attacker had bleach on his clothes) among the recent series of Anti-Semitic hate crimes, one can conclude only that those who have both hurt the living and attempted to disturb the rest of those whom have gone on to the 'olam haba are motivated by ethnic bigotry, not religious bigotry, against Jews. As World Jewish Congress Chairman & CEO Ronald S. Lauder stated, those who fire rockets into Israel "don't care what synagogue [their intended victims] attend." In fact, they don't care if they attend any synagogue at all!

One could be as nontraditional a Jew as, for example:

1.  A San-Francisco-residing Atheist Jew whom is a card-carrying member of Freedom From Religion and also a member of the LGBTQ+ community, despite that his or her parents were and are active members of Daly City's Egyptian Karaite community whom never thought that their son or daughter himself or herself would be anything but a devout Karaite
2. A Jewish Christian/Messianic Jew/Jesus-believing Jewⁱ of any given background
3. A Cochini Jew whom's a HindJew (Jewish Hindu) raising his or her kids in an interfaith (or intermovement/interdenominational¹) HindJew-BuJu home with his or her Kaifeinger Jewish spouse whom is a devout BuJu.
4. A Muslim Lemba Jew whom was able to make aliyah and is living with his or her Muslim Ethiopian Jewish partner in a sort of common-law-marriage arrangement, since he or she can't marry her or him for whatever reason.
5. A Cochini-Kaifenger Jew whom's in a HindJew and lives with his or her Muslim-BuJu partner, whose one parent was a Muslim Lemba Jew and whose other parent was an Ethiopan JuBu 
6. A Cherokee Jew whose Black father is a pastor in a Baptist church and whose mother practices Native American traditional religion, and whom identifies the most with his or her African-American heritage as well as practices a syncretic form of Baptist Christianity and Native American religion
7. An asexual Afro-Cherokee-Egyptian Jewish American whom practices a syncretic form of Baptist Christianity, Native American traditional religion, and Karaite Judaism, much to the dismay of each and all of his or her grandparents, each and all of whom also are dismayed that the grandchild in question has chosen to neither marry nor even have children through surrogates or by adoption.
8. A transgender sibling of the decidedly-single multiethnic-and-multifaith cisgender Jew whom is mentioned above, and whose own religious persuasion is ambiguous.

One could also be as traditional as, for example, the rabbi whom a hateful man attempted to murder on Hanukkah.

The point is, then, that any one of the kinds of Jews listed above and every other kind of Jew could be targeted by Anti Semites—none of whom care about our individual or shared religious beliefs and practices, sexual orientations and gender identities, or intra- and inter-ethnic lineages—or any other individual or shared factors but for our Jewish ethnicity.  

ⁱ Or however you identify yourself if you're a Jew whom believes in Jesus. I myself choose "Jewish Christian" to make unambiguous "ethnically Jewish and religiously Christian" and thus leave nothing to open to discussions, questions, debates, or word games by Anti-Messianic ("Anti-Missionary"/"Counter-Missionary") individuals and groups.

¹If one looks at the histories of Hinduism and Buddhism, they'll see that Buddhism could be called "Reform Hinduism" in at least some respects

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