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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I've eaten shellfish at dinner with Orthodox Jewish friends. They didn't take offense. They just laughed at my obvious ignorance when I offered them a cherrystone clam. Nobody got offended - they just did their thing and I did mine. That's how its supposed to work.
Your "respect" is one sided. They should respect your belief that drinking alcohol is ok. Why do the ultra-religious get to inflict their views on the rest of us by taking unreasonable offense or being judgmental, yet we can't do it back to them? Seems pretty hypocritical on their part. They don't have to drink the wine, but they ought to bite their lips and act like grown ups when a grown woman from a different background has a drink.
This "respect" either goes both ways or it goes none.
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Too true. This is why when I eat out with others and they fill their maws from platters laden with the carcasses of murdered animals and sea creatures I like to light up a smoke and order a couple more beers. Go ahead and eat that rotting corpse in front of me but don't you dare make a peep about my binge drinking or chain-smoking. Mutual respect has its benefits.
