Bikini Backlash Against Hasidic Blockage of Vodka Ads in Crown Heights...
What happened when the Hasidim used their considerable political clout to get the MTA to block ads for Georgi Vodka from bus stops in Crown Heights? Bikini-clad babes hit the streets in protest. More on Fox News…
What happened when the Hasidim used their considerable political clout to get the MTA to block ads for Georgi Vodka from bus stops in Crown Heights? Bikini-clad babes hit the streets in protest. More on Fox News…
Jaguar, that was a different group of Hasidic assholes … Satmar. The ones in Crown Hts are Lubavitch. But that’s neither here nor there.
I never understood how doing away with bike lanes would actually stop women from riding in shorts and t-shirts and riding their bikes down the same streets from which the bike lanes were removed. Those streets are still public thoroughfares and anyone on a bike is free to ride on them. Granted I’m not female, but I definitely ride my bike on streets all over the place, bike lanes or not, generally wearing shorts and a tank top when the weather warrants it.
As to the Lubavitch and their mini-vans, they do indeed have large families (generally not bigger than 8 – 10, though). Of course, you’ll often see mini-vans with only the driver. You really don’t expect them to purchase a second, small car when they are going out to the supermarket or for when their children are in school, do you?
As to men getting “relieved” in the backs (fronts?) of their minivans, I’ve never seen that. (I live in the heart of Lubavitch country and am one of the few Jewish, totally non-observant guys around here.) Where do these cravers of relief go to get their jollies?
Randolph, you’re so dumb. Hasid gangstas?? Name me one Hasid rapper to prove your point.
ROB GOT PWNED BY JAGUAR HAHAHAHAHA
but actually for once i agree with rob- them hasids are gangsta!!!
Remember when these assholes decided that they didn’t want bike lanes in their neighborhood because women dressed in shorts and t-shirts had the audacity to ride their bikes on the public streets? Amazing how fast those bike lanes disappeared and right before the election too. I know, I know, bikers are the new enemy . . . .
People should absolutely respect the Chasidim within reason, but it has to be a two way street. They can’t just live in the middle of one of the world’s largest cities and expect everybody else to stay in the 19th Century with them.
Very seldom do I see kids in the minivans… mostly a single man (maybe another man for a passenger). But then again, they are driving so fast and aggressively and I’m worried about dying, it’s hard to see if there are kids in the back seats.
Rob — you know you are a complete asshole right? They have minivans because they have lots of kids.
This vodka company paid money to a public authority (or to an agency that paid the public authority) to post its ads on buses. Since liquor adds are legal (not my choice but it is the law) and the ads are not obscene, the city has no business removing them because a particular religious group or at least some powerful members of that group are offended. A secular society does not function in that way. Unfortunately, our government always backs down to this nonsense when it comes from this particular group. I would rather think that the MTA, which has cut services just this week due to their apparent poverty, would welcome these advertising dollars . . . .
I have seen plenty of Christian ads on the subway that I questioned the appropriateness of and recently there was an ad promoting rescue from Islam that was apparently perfectly acceptable because the advertisers paid for it and the government couldn’t violate their 1st Amendment rights. Well, I’d rather see some T&A driving by on the side of a bus than see some fundamentalist Christian crap.
If people are arguing that our entire society is oversexed, that is an entirely different argument than whether a particular religious group should be able to get ads pulled from a public bus. This really isn’t as complicated as all of you are making it. If the Chasids are pissed off, then they can buy another brand of vodka. And they do drink plenty of vodka.
it’s excellent in Molotov cocktails.
I think the real issues is that Georgi tastes like kerosene (and not in a good way).
They’re more upset about a demographics being able to get there freak on and boozed up rather than the elimination of bus stops that prohibit same group from getting their a**es to work?Talk about priorities in the wrong place.