User talk:Nellmezzo

Admittedly, a long time since I saw this movie but I don't remember Judy's ethnicity being the point of the movie. It seemed more universal, concerning a certain kind of pampered young woman. She happened to be Jewish but the problems she ran into did not concern Jewishness in any way.

If I am remembering wrong, and there were more Jewish issues involved that I don't remember, then I suggest the edit be changed, at least, to "Jewish-American Princess" ("JAP"), in quotes, to alert the reader to the fact that "Jewish-American Princess" is, for better or worse, a concept intimately involved with this movie. If you don't make such a change, for one thing, "JAP" doesn't mean much to people who don't live around American Jews and have a familiarity with the ways they talk about "JAP's." For another, the link itself demonstrates how "JAP" is usualy viewed as a slur, and I certainly don't remember the movie carrying negative weight of that kind.

Fundamentally I don't think the abbreviation "JAP" is appropriate for a reference work -- it implies too much cultural consensus ("An abbreviation is sufficient because we all know what these women are like!") on the existence of a type of young Jewish woman who is an unappealing combination of difficult, over-indulged and domineering. Nellmezzo (talk) 19:43, 20 July 2015 (UTC)