#yentl

[nesyanast]

“Yentl—you have the soul of a man.”

“So why was I born a woman?”

“Even Heaven makes mistakes.”

Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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[naskaolgia]

Cartman and Yentl sketches because I said so

They're stupid and I hate them

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[johannestevans]

Yentl: A Trans Man Studying Talmud is Distracted by Gay Thoughts

Yentl (1983, dir. Barbra Streisand) and Yentl the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Any of us would be distracted from study by Mandy Patinkin. Via IMDb.

It’s a sad thing, hearing cisgender people talk about Yentl — especially the short story — and think they understand it, that they’re getting everything from it, while at the same time, they can’t conceive that transgender people even exist.

It’s a strangely joyful short story to read as a trans man, as sad and complex as it is, and the film has a similar bittersweet warmth to it.

“Yentl — you have the soul of a man.” “So why was I born a woman?” “Even Heaven makes mistakes.”

From Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, by Isaac Bashevis Singer

At the beginning of Yentl (1983), we see Barbra Streisand as the titular Yentl walking around in Yanev, ostensibly to buy groceries — including a fish — for dinner. She’s bored and distracted as the other women discuss how to study a fresh fish or how to distinguish between the different types — the bookseller is coming through town, calling out that he has novels and picture books for women and sacred books for men.

Yentl approaches the bookseller and surreptitiously takes one book from the men’s shelf, a book exploring the mysticism of creation and the similar mysticism of language that was being discussed by some yeshiva students a moment ago, and the bookseller interrupts her — “You’re in the wrong place, Miss. Books for women are over there.”

He tells her it’s the Law that women can’t study such books; she retorts, “Where is it written?”; he says, “Never mind where: it’s a Law.”

She says the book is for her father, Reb Mendel, and the bookseller finally relents, whereupon she goes home and reads the book herself.

Mendel is a widower, and although he scolds Yentl gently for not being an adept cook and tells her that studying is for men and not for women, he studies with her anyway and teaches her — it makes Yentl the subject of gossip in town, with one of Reb Mendel’s students remarking that his father says a woman who studies Talmud is a demon — it doesn’t help that Yentl is unmarried.

From the short story:

But Yentl didn’t want to get married. Inside her, a voice repeated over and over: “No!” What becomes of a girl when the wedding’s over? Right away she starts bearing and rearing. And her mother-in-law lords it over her. Yentl knew she wasn’t cut out for a woman’s life. She couldn’t sew, she couldn’t knit. She let the food burn and the milk boil over; her Sabbath pudding never turned out right, and her challah dough didn’t rise. Yentl much preferred men’s activities to women’s.

From Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, by Isaac Bashevis Singer

As a trans man, I’m always keenly aware of the things many of us cite in childhood of the first things we knew weren’t right for us and the things that were — Yentl has no skills that should be right for a woman, mentions that she cannot sew or knit or cook, and she prefers to study.

Many of us played with “boy’s toys” or took interest in “boy’s activities” instead of girl’s ones, wore “boy’s clothes” and did “boy things” — the label as to the boyishness or girlishness to most of these being arbitrary.

But Yentl’s first thought here is the rebellion in it — not only will she be forced to begin bearing children and raising them by the circumstances of her marriage, but she’ll be forced to submit to her mother-in-law’s will and orders.

In my experience as a trans man, cis men are rarely the biggest enforcers of the gender binary, nor the ones who most policed my incorrect or flawed gender expression as a child.

When cishet men do complain and correct gendered behaviour, it’s often to do with what they perceive as a desirable woman or girl being kept from them — their complaints are far more to do with dress or physical appearance because, to a cishet man, the first thing that matters in a woman is her sexual availability and her aesthetic value, particularly in regards to her sexual appeal.

Cishet women’s aggressive and virulent desire to correct what they feel are gender transgressions are more subtle than that and are far more about the deeper social value a woman holds — about her ability to cook and clean, to raise children, to exist in a space with other women, to manage the men in her life and to willingly submit to parenting adult men as if they’re also her children.

What would Yentl experience from her mother-in-law? Picks not just at her appearance but at her behaviour, her priority, and her thoughts. It’s not enough to perform gender correctly — they want you to internalise it and to be entirely beaten down with it.

All your thoughts as a cishet woman, especially in a traditional M/F marriage, should be about the men around you and their needs — sacrificing your own needs and desires should come naturally to you. A lot of cishet mothers will completely confidently say that sacrifice of the self, of personal identity, of privacy, of rest, is an integral part of motherhood, and they will become very angry at the idea that it isn’t, or that it shouldn’t be — pointing out that the same expectations are not made of fatherhood will if anything make them angrier, and they’ll say blandly that men and women are different, and refuse any further word about it.

Why are men and women different?

They just are.

Why do they have to be?

They just are.

There was no doubt about it, Yentl was unlike any of the girls in Yanev — tall, thin, bony, with small breasts and narrow hips. On Sabbath afternoons, when her father slept, she would dress up in his trousers, his fringed garment, his silk coat, his skullcap, his velvet hat, and study her reflection in the mirror. She looked like a dark, handsome young man. There was even a slight down on her upper lip.

From Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Obviously, trans men and mascs’ gender shouldn’t be judged by the extent of their ability to pass, but a thing that I really like about this aspect of Singer’s short story is that it puts aside the argument of sex essentialism.

“Men and women are different, and you can tell they are different because they look different — if they were meant to be the same, why wouldn’t they look the same?”

And here, Yentl has the soul of a man, and his body is not wholly that of a woman’s and can easily be “disguised” as a man’s because it already has some men’s characteristics — tall, thin, bony, not much to the chest, without the wide, child-bearing hips people often want or expect of a cisgender woman. Once Yentl is dressed in the right clothes, she looks like a dark, handsome young man.

If men and women are truly so irrevocably different, if they are truly two sides of a wide binary with a great chasm between them, everyone would always be able to tell trans people and crossdressers and intersex people and anyone else outside or in-between from a line-up, and you can’t.

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[dirchristophernolan]

Mandy Patinkin as Avigdor

YENTL 1983 | dir. Barbra Streisand

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[gmzriver]

Barbra Streisand as Judy Maxwell in "What's Up Doc?" icons

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[silver--scar]

Sorry I've been so absent guys I've been hitting roadblocks with my animation. It keeps crashing SO HARD LIKE GOOD LORD 💀 💀

Have kid Yenman for the soul

Cartman being utterly in love and bettering his ways? Hell yeah

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[rafikecoyote]

Yentl 1983

#yentl #mandy patinkin #barbra streisand #movieedit #flimedit #s008 #mandy patinkin hot. end of the review

[womansfilm]

Yentl (1983)

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[0-dear-rose-0]

I have 2 sides

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[babka-enjoyer]

Uhhh so in my ongoing Jewish education I am watching Jewish media. I, a former opera/musical singer, have never seen Yentl. So tonight I watched Yentl.

What I just witnessed is one of the queerest AND one of the most technically magnificent movies I have ever seen. It was everything I want my art to be - feminist, jewish, and profoundly gay. It’s beautiful - almost fairy-tale-like. The cinematography? Like a painting. The score? Both intimate and epic. The acting? World class. The HOW DID I MISS OUT ON THIS FOR SO LONG? Why isn’t everyone just talking about this masterpiece 24/7?

Look at this autistic transmasc and their pretty girlfriend. I mean. Pls.

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[radykalny-feminizm]

I just watched Yentl (1983). Then I looked it up on Tumblr and the fact that people are calling the main heroine trans makes me fucking sick.

Yentl was not trans

She was a woman who pretended to be a man and the sole reason for this was that she wanted to study Talmud, which women couldn't do in the past. It's a story about women's oppression, not about fucking trans movement. Yentl explicitly stated that she's a woman, she has always been a woman and that she was sick of pretending that she wasn't. All she ever wanted is being able to study as a woman. She didn't want to be a man. Stop fucking appropriating feminist stories and turning them into your trans agenda. It's straight up lying.

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[divineandmajesticinone]

Mandy Patinkin & Barbra Streisand YENTL (1983) dir. Barbra Streisand

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[buttersenthusiast]

Poopie yentlman from september or smth i dont membuh

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[gmzriver]

Barbra Streisand as Doris in "The Owl and the Pussycat" icons

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[dolorygloria]

Film stills from YENTL (1983)

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[nesyanast]

"It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. Truth itself is often concealed in such a way that the harder you look for it, the harder it is to find."

-Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy, by Isaac Bashevis Singer

#jumblr #jewish #jews #nesyapost #jewish culture #jewish reading #jewish books #yentl #yentl the yeshiva boy #isaac bashevis singer #yiddish #IDK i just love this story so much #the film is certified kino too but they are different