{"id":634,"date":"2006-10-30T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/10\/yentl-effect.html"},"modified":"2006-10-30T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T11:54:00","slug":"yentl-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/10\/yentl-effect.html","title":{"rendered":"The Yentl Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though “The Simpsons” was a repeat last night, it was new to me, and–though I am not sure why this fascinates me as much as it does–I couldn’t help catching what was at least the second reference to Barbra Streisand’s 1983 gender-bender drama “Yentl<\/a>” in the animated series’ history.<\/p>\n

For those with all-too-short memories, “Yentl” was the story of a young Jewish woman in an Eastern European shtetl who, lacking educational opportunities because of her gender, is determined to study in an all-men’s yeshivah, so she covers up in traditional Orthodox men’s garb–white shirt, black suit, black coat, black hat, dangling side-curls<\/a>–and enrolls as a man.<\/p>\n

The so-bad-it’s-funny movie first appeared on “The Simpsons” in an episode focusing on Nelson<\/a> and his search for his father. Believing no one is around to hear him, the supposedly hard-hearted bully breaks into a heart-wrenching (or gut-busting, depending on your perspective) rendition of the movie’s song “Papa Can You Hear Me?”<\/p>\n

Then, in the episode rebroadcast last night<\/a>, the kids’ school is separated by gender, in order to give the girls an empowerment boost in math and science. Fed up with her touchy-feely math class–“How does a plus sign make you feel?” the teacher asks–Lisa decides to take a play from Babs’ book and attend the boys school in drag. Discovered, one of Nelson’s bully friends calls out disappointedly, “We’ve been Yentled!”<\/p>\n

Indeed they had been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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