"It's an interesting development I've noticed in the last few years, that Vashti is touted as a feminist role model while wholly ignoring her (admittedly Midrashic) deliberate abuse of Jewish women (I'm fairly sure the midrash is something to do with her forcing Jewish maidservants to work on Shabbat, or something). I was on a cross-denominational panel discussion about this before Purim last year, and I pointed out that while Vashti's refusal to submit to the lecherous whims of Achashverosh are noteworthy, the granddaughter of Nebuchadnezzar is not necessarily the greatest role model to take on." (source)

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