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I'm a blonde girl and I need proof that blonde girls like Jewish men.

I am always harasssed by Jews but I don't find them very attractive.

There is one article saying that blondes like Jews but it's written by a horny Jew,

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:6m3MU9VPFDkJ:www.gnn.tv/jump.php%3Fid%3DF01968+%22hot+waspy+women%22&hl=en

I believe the user was referring to this link http://gregoire.gnn.tv/threads/1968/Why_Hot_WASPy_Chicks_Love_Jews
Then I guess "blonde" Jewish actresses like Kate Hudson, Goldie Hawn, Evan Rachel Wood and Jill Clayburgh have nothing to live for?--Bourbon King 23:11, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Whoever those men are, they're lucky they didn't get stuck with a bigot. Durova 02:00, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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Kate Hudson and Goldie Hawn are not "Shiksas". Hawn is half Jewish and Hudson is obviously 1/4.

Hawn's mother is Jewish, so it follows that she is, too. Hudson, therefore is also Jewish

[edit] Plural?

Is there a standard plural form for Shiksa? I see two or three different spellings in the article text. Durova 01:58, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I'd say the preferred spelling should be Shiksos, along the lines of the Hebrew feminine plural suffix "-ot" which is usually pronounced "-os" in Yiddish (afaik) --Davecampbell 23:51, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] please

The article as it is, is is just ridiculous, please guys. "It has been observed by both comedians and more serious thinkers that such shiksas are often fetishized by Jewish men", should I conjure up the term 'weaselwords'? And why get into a discussion of 'jews as a race' right here? Have you never seen blonde jews before? Oyd11 19:03, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] shiksa girls vs protestant girls

I think that there is a deeper issue here. I went to Catholic Schools for twelve years, and for us (Catholic boys), protestant girls were considered to be loose and therefore, somehow, incredibly attractive. There were rumors that they DID THINGS that our good Catholic girls would never do. This seems to fit in with the "shiksa" fetish discussed in the article that Jewish men are reputed to have for Gentile girls. But the deeper question is why debasement is seen as sexually attractive. Is it merely because, as young males, we were not getting any sex and so the notion of a loose female stuck in our minds as being the image of sexual appeal? Or is there some deeper imagery at work here? What I am really getting at is attempting to get behind the images that hold sexual appeal for us and figure out how, why, and when this is happening. Perhaps if we could do this we could get back to a more primal eros and not be a collection of programmed reactions focussing on inappropriate imagery.

71.205.9.245 03:21, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

EVERYBODY is attracted to "inappropriate" matches - not for the rest of our lives, but for diversion before marrying the appropriate one. "Shiksas are for practice". A Protestant girl you perceive to be slutty isn't who you want to marry, she's who you want to get you off while you're still in highschool because your Catholic dreamgirl won't until you marry her. Which you will. Because it would break your everloving mother's heart otherwise. Plus you don't want a slut for a wife. Signed, 68.121.163.146 04:18, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gefilte fever

A corollary to the phenomenon discussed herein, a fetishization of Jewish men/women by goyishe women/men. The term itself was used by a goyishe regular on a now-defunct Bay Area BBS network, referring to his attraction to Jewish women. Several shiksos I've met in different contexts have similarly described their attraction to Jewish men. And I recall a movie involving a group of Italian-American men, one of whom is completely entranced with Ellen Barkin's character because she's "so Jewish" which is understood to be synonymous with "sexy". (This is entirely WP:OR but with a large and diverse enough sample size to make me think it's fairly widespread. The term itself gets only one Google hit, on someone's MySpace page.) --Davecampbell 00:16, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pejorative

The word may be spoken as a pejorative by Jews who have prejudice against gentiles, but gentiles don't feel oppressed, and don't hear the word as a pejorative. This is more true than what the article starts with.


The term shiksa, despite its etymology, is the only derogatory term that is widely used and accepted in the United States.

I think this is pretty clearly untrue. "Bitch" is a derogatory term, and unlike shiksa, most people are actually aware of it.--DBlask 00:32, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contradiction

In three paragraphs, the article says that the word shiksa:

  • is a pejorative (a belittling or disparaging word or expression)
  • is still regarded as offensive by some
  • could be derived from the Hebrew term sheketz, which means either "abomination", "detestable", "loathed" or "blemish," "insect", "subhuman" ("could be" is a weasel expression for "is")
  • is a derogatory term

Then the article says that the word shiksa is widely used and accepted.

Shiksa may be widely used, but it is an offensive term, and the article can't have it both ways: either it's "still regarded as offensive by some" or it's "widely used and accepted".

I would suggest that it may be widely used, but it's still an offensive word. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 04:44, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

An offensive word can become accepted. For example, nigga. --129.98.215.232 18:46, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Lots of offensive words are widely used and, yes, even accepted. --86.135.176.111 22:19, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Okay. I'll remove the banner, and try to edit the section to make it a little clearer. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 23:38, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

In my experience, "shiksa" isn't used for Gentile girls and women generally, but those who date (or marry) Jewish boys and men. As a non-Jew who's dating a Jewish guy, I can testify to the fact that 1. The word is absolutely used in a way that is both pejorative and intended to be so, and 2. That I wasn't called a "shiksa" before I started dating my (Jewish) boyfriend. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.191.76.141 (talk) 12:15, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the word is almost always used as a pejorative, and the lede says that: "used as a pejorative or mock-pejorative term for a Gentile (or non-Jewish) woman." The article doesn't capture the nuance that a shiksa is usually a non-Jewish woman who is dating a Jewish man, or whom a Jewish man wishes to date (or sleep with) — or at least that was its traditional usage. I'm not familiar enough with the majority of the recent cultural references to know whether the word has kept that connotation as it has become mainstream. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 18:13, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

As Jiddish derived from German, Schickse (schick - send, s(i)e - her) could have another meaning, simply: -send her(away) . It sure wasn´t appropiate to hang around with non-jewish girls. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.0.249 (talk) 19:15, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

In fact, the original word is the masculine gender, which in English would be spelled Shaygetz. Common usage for Shaygetz was for non-Jewish Gentiles, but not for every Gentile. It was used to refer to brutish, unpolished, uncultured men. A Gentile who did not deserve the pejorative would be called a Goy. A Shiksa would be called a Goye. As time went by, if you want to be hard on a non Jeiwsh girl, you'd use the term Shiksa. It would be used for someone dating a Jew, or for any other kind of young lady, to whom you didn't want to be kind. Sorry, I didn't sign it the first time around. Rafael

[edit] Offensive

The lede ends with the following paragraph:

Despite its etymology, the term shiksa is widely used and accepted in the United States, where it is often used in a humorous way. Nevertheless, the word is regarded as offensive by some.

Another editor changed the last sentence to:

Nevertheless, the word can be extremely offensive in certain contexts.

I reverted the edit, but I'd like to capture both thoughts. There are some people who feel that the word is an insult, no matter what the context. There are other people who might not be offended at being called a shiksa in some situations, but would find it offensive in other circumstances.

Is there an elegant way to summarize both attitudes toward the word? I struggled for a little while, and the best I could come up with was:

Nevertheless, some people consider the word to be offensive in every context, and many more consider it offensive in at least some circumstances.

That's a very unwieldy way of getting the point across. I'm open to suggestions. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 08:12, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I tend not to think of words as having offense in of themselves, (an article on the word shouldn't be offensive, but being called a "shiksa" probably would be, if the target knew the meaning of the word and its history).

What stuck out to me is that the article doesn't make it clear that one should be very careful about using the word, despite its appearance in pop culture (which I think is only possible because most people think it just means "blonde gentile girl.") Historically, shiksa is a really nasty ethnic slur, and anyone reading the article needs to know that many Jews and Gentiles (assuming they know what it means) would consider it highly offensive.

I'll try another edit, and see how people like it.David A. Flory (talk) 06:53, 17 December 2007 (UTC)