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Category Archives: Dating
The Alpha-Beta Continuum Of Men
Comments to Steve Sailer: * The alpha/beta continuum with regards to dating doesn’t overlap a whole lot with other traits. The alpha example is usually a tall good looking banker type – but in my experience, tall and good looking … Continue reading
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Where Have All The Good Men Gone?
They’re not interested in marrying promiscuous women. LINK: If women really wanted good men who would be stable income providers and raise good families, they wouldn’t spend age 16–25 sleeping with perpetual manchildren. [25 recommendations] Men do not want to … Continue reading
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The Essence Of Game
Heartiste A friend says: “Better not try that on a sheitel.”
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From The Coal Burning Front
Blog by a fat white woman: I can’t go to Walmart without getting approached by at least 5 black men. I see some beautiful black women, Latina, Asian, banging bodies, cuter faces and they don’t get approached. But I get … Continue reading
Gendered Racial Exclusion by White Internet Daters
From a 2008 Princeton paper, highlighted by Chateau Heartiste blog: Among white women, one of the most striking findings is that white women who describe themselves as slim, slender, athletic, fit or average are nearly seven times as likely to … Continue reading
Frum 4 Frum
From the New York Craigslist dating section: * OK. I admit it. I am a married chasidishe jewish man in my 50’s desperate to have an affair/friendship/relationship with a nice frum lady. Chasidish, (sheitel, zigedekt, shpitzel, seams or not) Yeshivish, … Continue reading
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We Need Moshiach Now!
* A Google search on “Christians loving Jews” revealed 6,100 results while a search for “Jews loving Christians” revealed 51 results. Sarah Silerman is a great window into some secular Jewish attitudes. * Why do so many age-appropriate women on … Continue reading
Tinderella: A Modern Fairy Tale
Chaim Amalek: This fairy tale is racist to the core, as it depicts a white man’s “ideal” mate as a cis-objectified white woman with blue eyes and strawberry blond hair of the sort only white women can have. Why not … Continue reading
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It’s Time To Get Old Testament On Tinder
Last night, as a time saving move, I was clicking like on every Tinder profile 18-40 within 100 miles of me, when suddenly up popped a message that I would have to pay if I wanted to like more profiles. … Continue reading
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Perhaps I Was Wrong
So this is how one relationship ended for me. We had been going out for a year, broken up half a dozen times. She was ten years younger and an Eight. We had finished dinner. She had eaten only a … Continue reading