Thanks for this post. As a fellow traveler, your post really resonated with me. I can no longer count the number of people who have told me -- a single woman approaching 30 -- that I *should* get on JDate because their friend, nephew, cousin, sister, etc just married someone she or he met on JDate. More often than not, however, I've found a paucity of men I want to date on that (and other) sites. Either too few options (JDate is not that amazing outside of a couple major metropolitan areas) or men who aren't for my feminist, intellectual, career-pursuing self (JDating men often seem to want smart but not intellectual women). Not to mention those whose sense of Jewishness comes nowhere near my own. JDate seems like a panacea to some and, for some, it works well. But not for everyone, all the time, everywhere. If there were a pool of feminist Jewish men on a website, now that's a dating site that seems more promising to me.
Thanks for this post. As a fellow traveler, your post really resonated with me. I can no longer count the number of people who have told me -- a single woman approaching 30 -- that I *should* get on JDate because their friend, nephew, cousin, sister, etc just married someone she or he met on JDate. More often than not, however, I've found a paucity of men I want to date on that (and other) sites. Either too few options (JDate is not that amazing outside of a couple major metropolitan areas) or men who aren't for my feminist, intellectual, career-pursuing self (JDating men often seem to want smart but not intellectual women). Not to mention those whose sense of Jewishness comes nowhere near my own. JDate seems like a panacea to some and, for some, it works well. But not for everyone, all the time, everywhere. If there were a pool of feminist Jewish men on a website, now that's a dating site that seems more promising to me.