Sex in the Supermarket
I don’t know about you, but my experiences at supermarket checkout are usually filled with aggravation, tried patience, mental budgetary calculations, and self-directed reminders to maintain, as George Castanza famously said, “Serenity Now.” But apparently I’ve been missing out. It seems that there are some places in which the check out line is filled with sexual innuendo, licensciousness, and sensual seduction. At least according to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Fox of Jerusalem has implied. (Hey, maybe I should be shopping where he shops.)
Rabbi Fox has issued a ruling that supermarkets must create sex-segregated check out lines, including men serving men and women serving women. According to last week’s Kol Hair newspaper, this has already been implemented in the supermarkets in his Ramot neighborhood. They must have been really hot and steamy stores over there. The good rabbi has admonished his followers not to step into a line with members of the opposite sex because of the body encounters at the check out line. Thank goodness he stepped in just in time, before the people in his community began exploring the sensual properties of Corn Flakes and nappie wipes.
People need to make better choices. I don’t just mean finding the cheaper brand of ketchup. I mean choosing leaders. The reason why men like this rabbi continue to spew forth absurdities that put down women and men alike is because people follow him. I would like to suggest that people stop listening to rabbis who long ago stopped making moral sense. We have the power to create our own culture by deciding whose ideas we will follow. Just because the guy has “rabbi” in his title it does not mean his ideas are holy. Sometimes even rabbis say things that are just plain stupid.
