# The Internet thinks I am a Jewish woman **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2010, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-thinks-i-am-a-jewish-woman/563123 "2010-12-06T06:20:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-thinks-i-am-a-jewish-woman/563123/1 "2010-12-06T06:20:11Z")
In fact I am a Gentile man, but it seems that, lately, nearly every web site I go to shows me advertisements for _The Tablet_ (the Jewish oriented magazine), or for women’s clothing, especially from the _Spiegel_ catalog. I did visit _The Tablet_’s site once, a month or so ago, following a link to a story about antisemitism, and I did once visit the _Spiegel_ site, following a link from, IIRC, a post here at the Dope that mentioned the _Spiegel_ catalog, and I clicked through because I did not know what it was. I did not explore beyond the home page. I have no particular interest in Jewish issues, and I have never bought clothing of any sort online, let alone women’s clothing. I do buy other things, such as books, electronics, and occasionally even OTC pharmaceuticals, online, but do I see ads for those? Nooooo (well, certainly far less than for _The Tablet_ and _Spiegel_). So much for targeted advertising. (Actually, I am rather glad to find that the targeting is, apparently, so bad.) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-thinks-i-am-a-jewish-woman/563123/2 "2010-12-06T13:42:35Z")
Well, if the internet says it’s so, it must be so. Get thee to a mikvah, pronto. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-thinks-i-am-a-jewish-woman/563123/3 "2010-12-06T17:10:53Z")
Is Spiegel supposed to be Jewish clothes? They’re just… clothes. My (white, Catholic) mom used to get their catalogs all the time. Joe ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-thinks-i-am-a-jewish-woman/563123/4 "2010-12-06T17:59:10Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > Is Spiegel supposed to be Jewish clothes? They’re just… clothes. My (white, Catholic) mom used to get their catalogs all the time. > > Joe He gets ads for _The Tablet_ (internet thinks he’s Jewish) and _Spiegel’s_ (internet thinks he’s a woman). ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-thinks-i-am-a-jewish-woman/563123/5 "2010-12-06T19:33:49Z")
that’s okay, my Tivo thinks I’m gay. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-thinks-i-am-a-jewish-woman/563123/6 "2010-12-06T23:38:58Z")
I’ve had a surprising number of ads think I’m French. I thick my browser’s default language being set to Esperanto confuses them. On the other hand, sometimes they’re surprisingly-accurate. It’s slightly disconcerting to be reading a news site from Australia and find it peppered with Canadian ads. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-thinks-i-am-a-jewish-woman/563123/7 "2010-12-07T00:38:55Z")
You could still become a Jewish woman, but you’d really have to go the extra mohel. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-internet-thinks-i-am-a-jewish-woman/563123/8 "2010-12-07T00:42:52Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > You could still become a Jewish woman, but you’d really have to go the extra mohel. And with that groaner, you win the thread. 🙂 Happy Hanukkah, **njtt**!