WTF
This morning, getting ready for work, I was listening to a news story – don’t remember if it was a network morning show, or CNN, or what… anyway, they were talking about this new trend of hiring celebrities to perform at private parties. The same story was running on the radio – Steven Tyler from Aerosmith for $250,000, at your Bar Mitzvah or Sweet Sixteen, etc. There was a whole long list of celebrities who do that, and I can’t really fault them for wanting to make a buck, though I still have MAJOR issues with the Aerosmith/Target commercial. Anywho, the TV story was talking, particularly, about this super-expensive Bat Mitzvah with this very spoiled little turning-thirteen girl. The piece ended with a comment about how they were only three years away from her Sweet Sixteen.
Now that is a case for the WTF Files.
A Bat Mitzvah and a Sweet Sixteen? Now, I don’t claim to know everything there is to know about the Jewish culture, but a Bar or Bat Mitzvah is an important coming-of-age, rite-of-passage type of event that symbolizes leaving childhood and entering the world of adulthood, particularly as it pertains to their faith. In some Hispanic cultures, a quinceañera is a similar ritual that takes place at age 15. Some cultures, or perhaps more accurately some social classes, celebrate a Sweet Sixteen or a Debutante Ball. But they’re all essentially a grand, usually expensive, celebration of basically the same thing – entrance into adulthood, maturity, responsibility, etc. I’ll refrain from making any comment about how “adult” your average 13, 15, 16 or even 18-year-old is, and stick to the issue at hand. First, why are people spending such ridiculous amounts of money for a party? I mean, for crying out loud, if you have that kind of money do something useful with it! Lord knows we don’t need any more spoiled, materialistic brats with a misplaced sense of entitlement, than we already have. But especially with Miss Mitzvah… why does she get a Bat Mitzvah and a Sweet Sixteen too? Don’t they serve basically the same purpose? IMHO, unless you happen to be a Mexican Jewish girl, if you must have parties that cost stupid-money, show a little class and limit yourself to one.
Now that is a case for the WTF Files.
A Bat Mitzvah and a Sweet Sixteen? Now, I don’t claim to know everything there is to know about the Jewish culture, but a Bar or Bat Mitzvah is an important coming-of-age, rite-of-passage type of event that symbolizes leaving childhood and entering the world of adulthood, particularly as it pertains to their faith. In some Hispanic cultures, a quinceañera is a similar ritual that takes place at age 15. Some cultures, or perhaps more accurately some social classes, celebrate a Sweet Sixteen or a Debutante Ball. But they’re all essentially a grand, usually expensive, celebration of basically the same thing – entrance into adulthood, maturity, responsibility, etc. I’ll refrain from making any comment about how “adult” your average 13, 15, 16 or even 18-year-old is, and stick to the issue at hand. First, why are people spending such ridiculous amounts of money for a party? I mean, for crying out loud, if you have that kind of money do something useful with it! Lord knows we don’t need any more spoiled, materialistic brats with a misplaced sense of entitlement, than we already have. But especially with Miss Mitzvah… why does she get a Bat Mitzvah and a Sweet Sixteen too? Don’t they serve basically the same purpose? IMHO, unless you happen to be a Mexican Jewish girl, if you must have parties that cost stupid-money, show a little class and limit yourself to one.
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