What is the fetish that fan creators have for making Jewish characters eat pork
They’re always so smug about it too like “tee hee it’s a sign that he’s conflicted in his faith! He’s assimilated!”
Shut up, he would not fucking eat that.
It's cuz that's all they know about Jewishness. People "get bar-mitzvahed" and they are forbidden from eating pork. To not "get bar-mitzvahed" or to choose to eat pork is transgressive... But also guilt-inducing!
It's just so ignorant. You become bar-mitzvah whether you have a public ceremony about it or not and people engage with kashrut in all sorts of ways.
Truly, in the most cynical core of my Jewish heart, I think this goyishe obsession with making Jewish characters eat treyf is the same as it ever was. Did you know that there are rules for kashrut for plain, unprocessed milk? Not milk-products. Straight milk. And this is because - I kid you not - in the Middle Ages, Christians would go through the weird labor of milking their pigs and sneaking the sow's milk into Jewish milk barrels. There's some perverse fascination with making a person do something they don't want to do. (You can see this also with people tricking vegans into eating animal products or that infamous post about someone vending full-sugar soda to "skinny girls" who order diet.)
But it's especially egregious to do this to Jewish characters because of the millenia of history of real people doing real bullshit like this to real Jews.
