Erin Foster responds to criticism her Netflix series perpetuates Jewish stereotypes

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Glamour writer Jessica Radloff called out Nobody Wants This, in particular, for its negative stereotypes of Jewish women. "In fact, after I watched the first two episodes of Nobody Wants This, I called my mom and said, 'I can’t imagine any guy who watches this show who would then say, "I really want to date a Jewish girl!” We come off as controlling, marriage-hungry women who want to plan dinner parties and alienate anyone who doesn’t share those same dreams,'" Radloff wrote. David Bashevkin, a rabbi and academic, said the show’s trailer featured a “whole lot of classic Jewish stereotypes.” Allison Josephs, who uses Jew in the City to advocate for accurate representations of the Jewish community in the media, said Nobody Wants This portrayed Jewish women as having “rampant” xenophobia. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Foster responded: "I think we need positive Jewish stories right now. I think it’s interesting when people focus on, 'Oh, this is a stereotype of Jewish people,' when you have a rabbi as the lead. A hot, cool, young rabbi who smokes weed. That’s the antithesis of how people view a Jewish rabbi, right? If I made the Jewish parents, like, two granola hippies on a farm, then someone would write, 'I’ve never met a Jewish person like that before. You clearly don’t know how to write Jewish people, you don’t know what you’re doing, and that doesn’t represent us well.'"

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Nobody Wants This' Backlash & Stereotyping Criticisms Explained

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