must be some other redbird....

[redbird]

A friend of mine was writing about her reactions to Yom Kippur. It's a locked post, so I won't point you there or quote her by name, but it invokes me, by LJ username, as someone who is probably upset that she doesn't fast or otherwise observe the holiday.

My reaction was, basically, "Who, me? Me, who has a nice chicken tikka coming from the Indian takeout place?" I posted that; she hasn't responded.

It really feels as though she's remembering a conversation with someone else, and putting my name on it. I'm a pinko New York humanist; around here "Jewish" is part of an ethnicity.

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[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Then why would you suggest that she might assume something negative about you because you are of Jewish heritage but not fasting?

I don't understand why you made the original assumption about her, or why you are assuming that I think you're in any way observant, when you've clearly written that you're not. My reaction was focused on your stated assumption about redbird's potential response, and that alone, which is why I responded here, and not to your initial post.

I understand why redbird was bemused and faintly irritated; I would be, too, if I were being told that I'd probably think something that antithetical to my thought patterns. I'm obviously missing something in the reasoning behind your anger expressed here.