surprised this hasn't made it here yet might be deserving of its own threadhttp://mishpacha.com/Browse/Article/8312/In-Her-Place
I saw that, and was very disturbed by it
Which yeshiva?
yup and he hasn't backed down at allthought this was a very appropriate response https://cross-currents.com/2017/07/03/orthodox-women-crowd/
http://www.rd.com/culture/regional-sayings-phrases-words/
http://www.rd.com/culture/regional-sayings-phrases-words/amp/
DW is 9 out of 9 and I was 8 out of 9. For the record it is gym shoes.
As with the tweet above, that's the one that makes me doubt the whole enterprise. There's no way that many people say tennis shoes. Sneakers is way more ubiquitous, I don't care where you're from. There's no background info on the page about the data set either, just the number of people allegedly surveyed.
you need to get out of queens more
You realize there's a huge culture of sneakerheads all over the US (and really globally as well). I guarantee none of those people call them anything but sneakers.
Right, because people from Queens can only know other people from Queens.You realize there's a huge culture of sneakerheads all over the US (and really globally as well). I guarantee none of those people call them anything but sneakers.
And you do realize that sneakerheads are a tiny percentage of the population. For the rest, there are other names.
how does your evidence prove that a large part of the country does not call them tennis shoes? I know when I walk into some stores they have a tennis shoe section not a sneaker section (yea it says tennis shoes on the wall).FYI, I call em sneakers...
It's indicative of pop culture as a whole. Like with tons of celebrities (especially but not limited to athletes) with closets full of sneakers. That was 3 of the first 5 I checked. The others usually just said athletic shoes or some other general catch-all.Bottom line is, sneakers is absolutely far and away the normative term.ETA: Plenty more that say sneakers. Have yet to find the term tennis shows or gym shoes on a site selling athletic shoes.
It's indicative of pop culture as a whole. Like with tons of celebrities (especially but not limited to athletes) with closets full of sneakers.That was 3 of the first 5 I checked. The others usually just said athletic shoes or some other general catch-all.Bottom line is, sneakers is absolutely far and away the normative term.ETA: Plenty more that say sneakers. Have yet to find the term tennis shows or gym shoes on a site selling athletic shoes.
Equally as goodhttp://blogs.timesofisrael.com/beyond-the-mehitza-a-response-to-yisroel-besser/He has doubled down on Twitter as well