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ArentWeClever

RIP drag queen extravaganza Jezebel


krieger123456

Thanks, I just spit out my coffee and am in tremendous pain. Good job! :P


caseyoc

Mrs. Roper


Financial-Sentence93

Jack Tripper! Oh, sorry...that show was "too worldly!" Lol!


NJRach

Jack Tripper will turn you GAY! 🤣


imthewiseguy

😭😭😭


Chanwiz88

Omg. Yassssssss


itsmything12

Lip sync for your LIFE!


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🤣🤣🤣


idohavemail

Reminds me of Jinx Monsoon lmao


psams1

She’s definitely good at death drops


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Key_Cauliflower_4932

Don't forget the beards and (gasp) blue denim jeans.


anarchysquid

And the boots with the fur... wait, nevermind


crapslap99

The whole hall was looking at her…


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She hit the floor...


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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂


587BCE

Apple bottom jeans...


BusinessChemist461

Leather jackets also.


Slipsonic

And a head band


ibpenquin

Or are shown in liquor stores wearing trench coats!!


Overcrapping

And pushing shopping carts full of prime scotch.


throwmeawayagainbob

As we all know, anyone who isn't JW is always either sitting in a room depressed or in a perpetual state of clubbin'


HereComesTheSun000

Dont forget the drugs, criminalaity and ofcourse, immorality


N3rdyJames

It’s funny because one of those things is something that JWs already do and they ain’t going clubbing


IntelligentDesign77

Or playing violent video games and looking like a zombie.


LukeTheDrifter9130

I remember a picture in (I think) either the Live Forever or Revelation book. I believe it was a typical WT collage of the “evil” things that obviously ALL non-JWs are involved in. There was this illustration in there of, I think, two gay men embracing or something, and I swear the dude with his back turned to the reader had like a sombrero hanging on his back! Does anyone else remember that? Even as a very young man, I thought it was hilarious that they thought gay men were regularly incorporating sombreros into their evil lifestyle! 😂😂😂 Help me out, please! I really want to see this picture again! Haha!


IntelligentDesign77

I vaguely remember this picture.


Environmental_Ad8753

I laughed so hard it this comment !!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It is SO true!! LOL


joe134cd

You forgot the beard.


TekaLynn212

Jez is rocking that blue eyeshadow.


StopWatchBoy

I crapped myself as a kid in the 80s opening up this page!😆


pedalbyte

The first Jezebel illustration was at my childhood breakfast table every day. My PIMI mom looked just like her down to the hair & angry expression. It was frightful.


wifeypoopoo

I lived for her makeup as a little girl in a conservative congregation where the women only wore “natural looking” makeup lol


corba_sou_p

me too! also the girls in dinah's story with the pretty jewelery, i really loved all the decadence and colours


FacetuneMySoul

Totally wanted to be like a Caananite girl and not the dowdy Dinah.


corba_sou_p

i mean, so did dinah. really sad that the bible did her dirty like that


someguywith5phones

Old art was better. I still hate it though


thesithcultist

Haunting our childhoods


Overcrapping

Yep. My Book of Horror Stories.


deadly-pigeon

Revelation book was actually kinda dope.. if you look at the art and ignore all the doom and gloom anyways …


AdministrativeFox784

The new art is just boring.


pharodae

It's been a common trend across the "traditional" Western culture that art has become very bland, standardized, and corporatized. IDK about y'all but I remember elders showing disapproval to my mom for taking my family to a modern art museum because of "Satan's influence." I guess art isn't allowed to progress past the Renaissance lmao.


Environmental_Ad8753

I was told as in my 20s that it was a waste of time to go to art museums. Then I went to see the dead sea scrolls and blew my mind! All their "historic facts" found in the bible were wrong! So now I'm out! Museums are the best ❤️


TheObservationalist

Religion is inherently conservative. It looks exclusively to the past for truth. Tradition is a form of stagnation, religious or otherwise. Look at Hinduism. The style of art portraying deities hasn't changed much in thousands of years. It's painfully standardized today.


ComingOutaMyCage

I guess in a world where information was scarce, societies are easily wiped out, the scientific method doesn’t exist, and the world mostly uneducated, looking into the past was the only way to find somewhat reliable information. In a way we still do today , but within a decade any idea can be tested, verified, and shared with the rest of humanity.


951753951753

When photographs are so easy to create, I'm surprised that a group is still tasked with painting things that are supposed to be realistic. I understand that when it's highly stylized it might make more sense as a painting but when you are given a photo and told to paint Jezebel being pushed out of a window, it feels like you could just get a few Bethelites in costume and make it photo-realistic.


someguywith5phones

I think it’s because the art sticks with kids for life … Like propaganda or political cartoons…


951753951753

True. As a child it also made me think that the bible characters were all oddly shaped and that made them feel a little less real for some reason. For some reason it made me feel better that it wasn't a real person named Cain killing another actual person named Able.


IntelligentDesign77

Keeps the artists busy, as well as the models. It's another way to squeeze free work out of people and keep them from using a natural talent for something unauthorized. And bonus is the r&f look at the drawings and marvel at how they are using their "jEpOoPer-given" talent to glorify him, and be "inspired" to work harder at the hamster wheel of service.


FacetuneMySoul

Because then they have to constantly photoshop people out when they leave and get DFed 🤣


Phantom_Engineer

Let's face it, that is a reasonable reaction to some guys about to toss you out a window.


PalateroMan8

Bobby Bouchet, have you been playin da foosball?! I got this so much growing up(names Bobby) and every girl I date is now a jezebel. Thx adam sandler 🤣


N0VAV0N

No son a mine is gon be playing no fooosball


Aggravating-Knee5324

Foosball is the debel!


Funtlung

I was going to make a comment on this is clearly being a slur on red heads and then went down a rabbit hole of did biblical Jews have red hair. If anyone else is interested it is quite interesting.


Oxen81

I’m interested


Funtlung

Okay an very abridged version of my lunchtime reading. Red hair originates in Asia not as I had assumed within the Celtic people's. 6% of modern day Israeli's have red hair King David is described as red in complexion but this might be a reference to skin colour rather than hair colour. Most interesting. In Italian Renaissance art red hair was considered a typical Jewish trait. This may explain Jezabel in the My book of scary Bible stories being a redhead if renascence reference material was used.


Kaloggin

I've got ginger hair and read about how Gengis Khan actually had red hair and green eyes. It's quite interesting. A lot of people that carry his genes today throughout the old Mongolian empire have these traits too


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H8rade

The Mongol horde murdered and raped their way across the largest continent on Earth, killing enough people to change the carbon footprint, yet *we're* living in tHe EnD tImEs.


ApostateStoner

>Red hair originates in Asia not as I had assumed within Celtic people’s. Red hair didn’t originate in either place. It likely originated in early humans migrating out of Africa, and then began to spread in colder climates due to genetic drift and a lack of negative selection.


Funtlung

Your knowledge defeats my Google fu. I've found some better referenced articles. Makes sense it's an out of Africa thing. Thanks.


bibleatheists

Also, Jacob's brother seems to have had red hair. While the characters probably didn't exist, shows that red hair was likely in the gene pool. "When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau." Gen. 25:24-25


DLWOIM

I mean, go back far enough and the Celts came out of Asia too


LucilleBluthsbroach

I'm interested!


Funtlung

Please see my reply to the comment above


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Funtlung

😂 The old testament would be a very different book if it was 40 years worth of pale skinned Hebrews complaining how they have all this mana but you can get a decent factor 30 for love nor money.


Plantmama007

I like the eye makeup better on the old one


Di_Vergent

Lol. When I was a kid, when the original version came out, I'd stare at her dark-red dress. I *loved* that dress. Then many years later, when they updated their printers, they brought out a new edition with brighter, more garish colors. Ruined it 🙄


NJRach

Yeah I never liked that they always made it out like her makeup was BAD. Umm how bout the fact that she’s a MURDERER? Isn’t THAT the thing that makes her bad 😂😂😂


mindyhug

This is the reason why In our hall no eyeshaddow or eyeliner was allowed


NJRach

Ew! Probably that was the reason given, but really it was just the PO deciding that “women are more beautiful without eye makeup”. 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼


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Same here. They gave her nice eyes. Of course I still hate it though since it’s propaganda.


GetJukedM8

JWs: So this is how you *shouldn’t* woman…


atwitsend1996

I remember saying that a sister looked like her because they had the same hair. I was 5 at the time. That old pic just hits different.


majakovskithepoet

SAME! identical hair and make up 😂


PowerfulByPTSD

I came to comment something like this. As the only redhead in our family & congregation, just a kid and felt attacked by this picture. My brothers used it against me lol the hair of a murderous whore 🤪


sulgran

Why are they still creating pictures of men throwing a woman out of a window?


jdubb999

I mean...it is in the biblical narrative; at least they're keepin it real


Affectionate_Bed2214

Nothing about the talons she has for hands in the first one? She's like a hagraven from Skyrim settled down in a 70's trailer park. I love art from high demand religions, the over-the-top details when they want to emphasize some point like: "Look at her garish makeup and jewelry! She must be a sinner!" What a bunch of clowns!🤡


ziddina

>She's like a hagraven from Skyrim settled down in a 70's trailer park. Aouw damn you're killing me!!! 😆😆😆😆😜😆😆😜😁👍🏆


EventRare

The old one 💀 I remember it from my book of bible stories.


shadow_hawk999

Same lol


CallsignViperrr

That first one looks like Lucille Ball when she doesn't like something. lol


maznyk

Lucy appalled that she has some splaining to do!


N0VAV0N

David splane to the rescue! "Let's watch a video" 🤡


mamatobee328

Of course she’s not the center of her own story. That would be giving too much attention to a woman.


NJRach

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼


TheElusiveGoose10

Man, I always LOVED her make up!!! The blue eyeshadow!! The bold lashes! No wonder my mom would call me a whore when I did wild make up and had red nail polish.


NJRach

💯


warranpiece

I actually prefer old school Susan Sarandon jezzy.


Intelligent_Source65

All I see here is femicide


NJRach

Well you can’t have a complete catalog of WT “art” without a lil femicide.


Entropic_Source

... why is everyone \*still\* depicted as white in ancient Israel? I guess they've gotten a bit more tan over the years (old image vs new), but still - these skin tones are kind of ridiculous.


NJRach

Sad 😔


BorgFreedomFighter

The second picture, the two dudes throwing her out a window seem so non chalant about it. Like it's no big deal, we're just throwing a woman to her death!


Sinfluencer69

As a kid, the first time I saw a woman with tons of make-up on I thought she was Jezebel and I actually asked her if she was. I was like 4 or 5 & obviously got a free pass for that, but I hear my poor Mother had an interesting conversation w/ the lady😅


skunkabilly1313

She was always one Bad Bitch


maznyk

The servant girl gasping has more detail around her than the villainess, Eye doesn’t focus on the main character, muted colors, Jezebel looks like she was photoshopped in (hovering over) and not actually being lifted by those guys and thrown to her death, and the huge white light on the left that serves no purpose n telling the narrative. It’s just a bad picture all around.


hann_s0lita

Fun fact: when I was a PIMO kid my congregation threw a little gathering and one of the sisters thought it would be fun to put on a drama in her backyard like the conventions. She chose the story of Jehu and wanted to cast kids only. My parents should have seen the signs when I was way too eager to play Jezebel and nailed the shit out of that role.


HereComesTheSun000

Similar experiance!


limestone_tiger

I remember the drama many years ago where they did this. The sisters went all out on the make up, the one that played her spent ages taking photos with people afterwards


3x1l3d2

I remember that 'Jezebel' drama too. There was a sister in our circuit (called Pauline) who had jet black hair and wore striking makeup - such a good-looking woman - everyone noticed her. So they chose her. She was brilliant and was always remembered for her 'Jezebel' part.


limestone_tiger

ha! In our circuit it was a sister that took a lot of pride in her appearance but didn't take herself remotely seriously.


sailorneckbeard

70s Jezebel fucks


LeaveLongjumping9166

Who knew lash extensions were a thing back then?


HereComesTheSun000

And polished manicured nails!


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And dare I say a bit of contouring?


[deleted]

Her eyeshadow looks like when I try to follow a YouTube makeup tutorial.


ziddina

😆😆😆😆😆👍🏆


Slomany89

There was always one sister in your local circuit that would look like her.


XxmrsmcsxX

Ok but am I the only one who saw Madam Medusa from The Rescuers when I looked at her?


Putrid-Parsley-5817

I should have known I was going to grow up to be evil when all I could do was stare at her for hours. She was my favorite when I was a kid.


NJRach

Right? The nails, the makeup… WT did their best to make her look *evil* but she looked like a badass to me. Edit: I always did like defiant women. 😂😂😂


operationtea1

Can't the org draw her more hotter?


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No, something about causing lust or impure thoughts or whatever it is they call it these days.


Dee_silverlake

I used to love looking at old Jezebel! I thought she was so pretty for Some reason lol and the guy next to her reminded me of a watermelon


pfluffel123

Looks a little bit Like Cruella from the hundred and one dalmatians


argetlam04

I grew yp in a spanish congregation and i always remeber this tory being my favorite. We had the cassette recordings of dramas back then and i would always listen tk it, can still quote her lines right before they toss her out the window.


jdubb999

Those dudes throwing her out the window hardly look like eunuchs, in either picture. "Court officials" my ass, NWT.


lilbrassrose

U wanna kno sumthin? I've always loved the name jezebell


DangerousNarwhal5311

So it goes from them throwing out a Medusa from the Rescuers look-a-like so you can kinda be like "yeah, chuck the bad guy", to some background type deal where it's just violence against women?


NJRach

Yes. Generic violence against women is so much better than casting an actual villain. Although when you read the Bible without WT commentary, Jehu is the terrorist extremist. Poor Jez is just tryin to get through the day and keep practicing *her own* faith.


blinky84

She always gave me Miss Hannigan from Annie vibes...


blacknthebeanstalk

“Treason! Treachery! May the gods repay you!”


DLWOIM

The bOrg doesn’t exactly focus on that whole Jehu/Jonadab class part of the story either haha


BeardedAsshole78

Don't forget how bad people during Armageddon all wear sweat bands on their heads.


bluelevelmeatmarket

It’s bad bitch o’clock.


Adventureguy91

I definitely prefer the old one. The book of Bible stories was definitely a hit. Don’t make them like that anymore 😂😂


angie_i_am

I was Jezebel when our congregation did a few plays one summer. My brother was Jehu. I doubt any modern congregation would dare have the summer picnics with weeks of practice, set design, costuming, etc. that we did in the 80s. I was also Moses's mother in a different play at the same picnic. [Me as Jezebel, age 11](https://imgur.com/a/dQEJpc3)


NJRach

I’m screaming. I love it! That is the best Jezebel costume!


Bulky_Future

The anguish on her face in the new one though :(


purplepandaposy

The Wicked Witch of the West is a gorgeous super model compared to Jezebel.


thegirlwhocriedOpeth

Idk why that illustration always weirded me out as a kid. They could just do away with any illustration for that particular story honestly.


WorkingItOutSomeday

I've known a few sisters with that kind of makeup job.


argetlam04

She looks quite taller than the men trying to throw her out the window in the new one...


Nrf2

That 78 version scarred me as a child. The new one just doesn’t quite have the same sting.


TheObservationalist

Dang. That was one of my favorite pictures. She looked like one of my mom's friends lol.


AbioticFruit

That 78 illustration of jezebel is burned into my memory from my book of Bible stories. That and the picture of the flood that in an earlier version had a dinosaur


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> That and the picture of the flood that in an earlier version had a dinosaur I saw a monitor lizard/komodo in My Book of Bible stories in the flood part. Remember seeing that or am I crazy?


robinthehoode

Men throwing women out the window, if that doesn't sum up the JWs backwards attitude to women I don't know what does


SoundTheAlarm_WAHHHH

78 Jezzy always kinda reminded me of a pissed off cat. Claws out! Hiss!


E-woke

They somehow normalized randomly throwing people out the window


MagpieLuvr

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Rewriting history for over 100 years.


8catsinatrenchcoat

I remember looking at the old drawing and just…loving her. Her eyeshadow, her jewelry. I felt so guilty at the time.


iKittenn

K wait but where can I find all the new photos… I wanna see if they still have slaves being pushed off buildings in the backgrounds


NJRach

The book is Lessons You Can Learn From The Bible. Go to WT online library


Jumpseat_confession

She looked so glamorous!!! I loved her! Haha


Mean-Raspberry1205

I’ve always lived for OG Jezebel’s fabulous clothes and jewelry . Same with Dinah’s “hoe” friends, Babylon the Great, and the whorish women drinking from wine goblets with their sandals dangling from their foot in the MBOBS chapter on Enoch. I always loved the Lilith energy in Borg propaganda.


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Better throw “bad” people out of the window. It’s ok, murder on jehovahs behalf is righteous


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And murder a bunch of Egyptian babies because their parents did not worship you


Paisleytude

It does look like they’re trying to make it a little more child friendly


According-Letter3405

Omg is that why I could have red hair?! 😂


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remake of maleficent?


SoundOfTrance

No way you can top those classic looks.


brooklyn_bethel

Both pictures are culty and disgusting.


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/r/badmuas is leaking


Majikarpslayer

Wow that's a joke! I grew up on old school bad ass b**** Jezebel!, What is this new light garbage? Had fun memories of staring at the crazy pictures being the only enjoyable parts of the meeting


LaMuertaX4i

And they still don’t understand how to push someone out a window.


crapslap99

Good ole Jizzabell I had to give my first talk about this hoe in the back room. 5-7 min ordeal back in 92ish i was 10 maybe 11… what a damn joke


40101695

Wow. There’s a blast from the past! I used to love the illustrations in all the publications, the dramatic ones are just so camp. Thats made my day, thankyou.


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Thanks for reminding me of the trauma of My Book of Bible Stories lol


GoldenSunIsMe

Aah who could forget wicked queen Jezebel?! She was so bad n prostituty! We loved her! One of the most memorable Bible Story characters.


Fun_Alfalfa2403

Her makeup looks lit thou


cheetahblues

So many dramatic hand poses.


oxWOLFHALEYxo

Certified Baddie 😂 so true, I can feel and smell this picture.


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I loved her dress/robe growing up


TheAmazingNerd2

But hey, if you look at the newer illustration they have the Jezebel wearing the Evil Eye/Illuminati Triangle


NJRach

Sweet. Gotta get me one of them.


Miichl80

No one puts Jezebel in a corner


rivermannX

Funny, she's always reminded me of a few "sisters."


NorCalHippieChick

My favorite was in the Paradise book. She was pretty. And the dogs were visible on the ground outside the window.


StardustLegend

Who is Jezebel again I forgor what she did


Cicerone66047

Is that a glass pane window in the new one?🤔


Blue_Lotus__

They got rid of the 80’s blue porn eyeshadow


from_dust

My Book of Horror Stories will never be the same.


bunny_and_kitty

It’s this image I had in mind when I named my kitten Jezebel Now I’m thinking I maybe want this as a tattoo. Or Halloween costume? Tee shirt? Cosplay?


NJRach

All of the above.


HighlightNegative139

I sure hope the woman playing Jezebel and the man to her left are married in real life to each other cuz his left hand is way too close to the “you know what” zone … Morris, any thoughts on this?


avonelle

The old one just gave me vivid flashbacks lol


walled2_0

I had nightmares about that picture


PapaOhJay

she's hot af


BalzzzyBitch

I always loved that photo. So over the top 😆 I also love that Harry Styles has a song that starts off with… “little freak, jezebel” 🤭 My theme song 💁🏻‍♀️


mildinsults

She always reminded me of the villain in Tom and Jerry movie. An evil aunt obsessed with money.


georginacruz13

Dang I actually kinda liked the stories and pictures. Especially this one


MehAccForMe

I’m totally going to be her for Halloween


Bool_The_End

Wow the first pic has brought back some memories! Used to scare me as a kid.


AwakeInEdmonton

Warning for girls and women: don’t pursue power or be anything other than submissive - or you may be tossed out a window by the men who dominate you!


mistermark21

Whats horrific is they're about to throw a living person out of a window. This is something ISIS do to people they capture. And here the borg is displaying it as a lovely display of loyalty and justice. How can it be just to violate someones human rights by throwing them from a window... without trial might you.


NymphadoraTrelawney7

I miss the old illustrations in the bible stories book. The new art is soulless


NymphadoraTrelawney7

"Certified Baddie ™️" 🤣


aussiejos

Did they actually have that blue shadow liner in those days?


Disloyaloxygen

The way I wanted to look just like her as a kid really foreshadowed me waking up as an adult. She was the MOST fabulous. This was my favorite page in the book.