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Monday, January 09, 2006
FEEDBACK: Politics of dating
Submitted by John V, 25, NYC:
That’s funny you guys posted that [see post below]. Freaked me out when I saw it cause my friends and I did that over the summer. Not those two sites, but political dating. We did it just for kicks but I thought you might be interested in we what we found. By the way, we did it cause the services were free.
One of my friends and I are liberals. Another friend is conservative (poor guy!) We’re all in our mid 20’s and from the New York City area. Anyway, we decided that for kicks we the liberals would pretend to be conservatives and date conservative women and the conservative guy would date liberals and then we’d compare notes.
I’ll make this short and just tell you the things that surprised me the most. I dated 2 girls and my friend dated one. All three girls said they weren’t that much into politics. Turns out all three only went for the conservative blog because they figured they would more easily find guys that are well off than on the liberal blogs. They also didn’t want to deal with the artsy, poet, or vegan types. None of the three were that religious. In fact, none of them went to church. They were spiritual, they said.
I’m not saying this is any kind of valid survey. It was only 3 girls, after all.
My advice is don’t go into these sites thinking you’re going to meet the stereotype of either side. If politics is that important I think these sites might help but frankly, who wants to have a relationship without some healthy friction? I can’t stomach the Christian Right wing fanatics or the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity like jerks, but other than those, it’s all fair play.
If you have to pay, I would think that other more traditional dating services would work best.
PS. I’ll ask my conservative friend to write about his experience. We talked about it but I’d prefer him giving you his own version if he wants to.
That’s funny you guys posted that [see post below]. Freaked me out when I saw it cause my friends and I did that over the summer. Not those two sites, but political dating. We did it just for kicks but I thought you might be interested in we what we found. By the way, we did it cause the services were free.
One of my friends and I are liberals. Another friend is conservative (poor guy!) We’re all in our mid 20’s and from the New York City area. Anyway, we decided that for kicks we the liberals would pretend to be conservatives and date conservative women and the conservative guy would date liberals and then we’d compare notes.
I’ll make this short and just tell you the things that surprised me the most. I dated 2 girls and my friend dated one. All three girls said they weren’t that much into politics. Turns out all three only went for the conservative blog because they figured they would more easily find guys that are well off than on the liberal blogs. They also didn’t want to deal with the artsy, poet, or vegan types. None of the three were that religious. In fact, none of them went to church. They were spiritual, they said.
I’m not saying this is any kind of valid survey. It was only 3 girls, after all.
My advice is don’t go into these sites thinking you’re going to meet the stereotype of either side. If politics is that important I think these sites might help but frankly, who wants to have a relationship without some healthy friction? I can’t stomach the Christian Right wing fanatics or the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity like jerks, but other than those, it’s all fair play.
If you have to pay, I would think that other more traditional dating services would work best.
PS. I’ll ask my conservative friend to write about his experience. We talked about it but I’d prefer him giving you his own version if he wants to.
