Yu beacon how do i explain this

This is patently untrue. First of all, the Yeshiva University Observer deals with controversial topics all the time. One month, the topic was mental health; another, it was abuse; another still it was, yes, sex and sexuality in the Orthodox community. The Beacon article could have dealt maturely with the issue of premarital sex among Orthodox college students had the writer, say, detailed the inner conflict between her Orthodox self and her modern self, and then explained the shame she says she experienced at the end Was it shame over losing her virginity to the wrong guy?

Shame over violating halacha? Instead, all we get is a trite tale about an Orthodox girl who slips up, feels bad, and now wants to talk about it so she can feel better.

This is not the behavior of one who wants to provide a platform or tackle tough issues. When I attended college, I clearly remember that if you had done something shameful, you had the good sense to feel ashamed of the act committed. That being said, I never did anything as dumb, as farcical, or as mind numbingly harebrained as the Stern College for Women student who anonymously wrote about losing her virginity in a Manhattan hotel.

Tel Aviv Is Over. Gay Haredim Turn to Her for Help. Sometimes She Prescribes Chemical Castration. Israel Could Soon Reopen to Tourists. They all look the same. After a short and frivolous conversation on the levels of eventual intoxication produced by different amounts of beer, his phone dies. I go back to glossing my lips and curling my eyelashes. Adjusting the clasp on my Hadaya necklace, I finally take in my whole reflection in the bathroom mirror.

Read the full piece at the YU Beacon.