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- From: mine@iowegia.uucp (shelley kitsis)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Any Available Jewish Men Out There??
- Message-ID: <wXmswB1w165w@iowegia.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 03:01:55 CST
- References: <1993Jan2.230755.19638@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
-
- > In article <-dtr5sq@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
- > >
- > >>Why is it any more of a close-minded criterium then any other criteria like
- > >>intelligence, humor, physical characteristc, geographic location, level
- > >>of education, lifestyle compatibility, sexual preference, etc?
- > >
- > >This argument, and others like it, smack close to hypocracy-
- > >Anybody remember the close-minded criterium of Mr. Wright? Your
- > >arguments for religious restrictions in dating like that are identical
- > >to Ed's arguments for his criterium.
- > >
- > >Substitute that one lady's griping of dating material with 'educated' for
- > >'jewish' and 'surrounded by health-nuts' for 'surrounded by christians'
- > >and the two arguments would be identical.
- >
- > Superficially, perhaps, but only superficially. While it doesn't require
- > too great a stretch of the imagination to believe that a Jewish woman
- > would be 'surrounded by Christians' in a medium-sized midwestern city,
- > it is much harder to accept the notion that the entire female population
- > of a large Texas city should use a bodybuilder-type paradigm as an
- > inflexible and absolute dating criterion. I didn't notice any messages
- > arguing her claim that a lot of people in her area are Christian, but I
- > recall a lot of messages from both women and men disputing Edward's claim
- > that all women would only date men who were very conventionally good-looking
- > and muscular. (Incidentally, I suspect that the criterion "Jewish" is
- > slightly less restrictive than "must have a PhD in one of the following
- > subjects....")
- >
- > >And the argument against that is the same-
- > >if you restrict yourself to a limited selection of dating material, then you
- > >have no right to bitch that there is a lack of dating material that meets
- > >your dating criterium.
- >
- > Arguable, but "not having a right to bitch" has never stopped anyone
- > before, so it's unlikely that it'll have much effect now. Still, you
- > may have some work ahead of you to convince the rest of the world that
- > no one has a right to complain about the lack of available dating
- > material unless one would be willing to go to any bar in town and
- > accept the first offer, regardless of personality, appearance, sex,
- > or criminal intent.
- >
- > Trygve
- > --
- > "The first 90% of a given task requires the first 90% of the allotted
- > time. The next 5% requires the next 90% of the allotted time."
-
- Trygve,
- I'm sorry I don't know you..you seem to have it all together (as
- opposed to a few others that have commented on this
- subject..namely, the "infamous" Mr. "R!"
- You, and the majority of the others took the time out to _read_
- what I had written, and still respected (whether you agreed or
- disagreed with what I was trying to get across) my concerns! For
- this, I can only say "Thank-you!" (and that goes for all of you,
- with the exception of Mr. "rON"!) Now, he is another matter
- altogether, and I don't mean to sound bitter or immature when I
- say, Trygve, "Good for you!" You did a great job of putting him in
- his place...I tried, but I'm sure it didn't have quite the impact
- that you did!
- I almost feel like I was personally being attacked/violated by his
- uncalled for remarks....but, as the saying goes, "to each his
- own!" Fortunately, I don't think that the are many of "his type"
- out there! (Oh, how ignorance is bliss, Huh?!)
- I just wanted to take this time out to thank both you and Meloney
- for standing up to this, (sorry, but I don't know any other word
- for it) "Pig!" I think I mentioned that the original post was the
- very first one I had ever put out....sure didn't expect the uproar
- I've seemed to have caused! Thanks to most of you, I'm not afraid
- to post again in the future....you gave me that courage!
- Perhaps someday, Mr. "R" will be able to confront and live in the
- real world!!
-