I know I've mentioned it before -- Jewish girls aren't really fans of me. We could sit here and brainstorm a million reasons but in the interest of time, let's just get down to what we really know it is: I'm taking their men. Until now, that's just meant dating; turning their men into piles of mush and then throwing them back into the shidduch pool, spoiled by finally meeting a girl who knows how to date and not just sit there like part of the Mariott lobby furniture. But know, now it's a little different because I'm no longer casually dating -- I'm seriously seeing someone. So you hear me, jewesses of the world? I'm taking a really, really good one. (I secretly feel like this is akin to when white women marry black men: what do you hear then? Not the silvery peals of wedding bells, but a chorus of LaQuishas and TaRonda's screaming "Kill the white shedevils!")
I mention this because a few days ago, I was telling some of the girls from my Hillel about my summer plans, summer plans that involve a trip to Israel to pick The Boy up, and then a trip to his family's home, and they kind of exchanged looks with each other. Then there were those polite non-statements of "Oh, so you two are getting to be a little serious?" and "Huh, that's nice. Have you ever met his family before?". And then one by one, they invited me out to a lunch, or dropped by for coffee, or "bumped into me" at the gym to pump me for all the dirty details about The Boy. Smiling, I let them know that he is slightly younger than I, that he is finishing a degree in something very manly, that he is good to his family, understanding of my odd family situation, willing to respect my religious idiosyncrasies, never OTD but not your average conformist FFB, knowledgeable beyond belief about gemarra and halacha and to top it all of, he's as shomer as shomer can be. Not a kiss, not an pseudo-accidental groin brush, not even a just-the-tip-just-for-a-second-just-to-see-how-it-feels. Aaaand he is good-looking and tall and very, very sweet.
You know what? They weren't too happy. In fact, they said lots of things that implied I had somehow tricked him or ensnared him or put some kind of convert/formershiksa voodoo spell on him. Things that implied I should be lucky to have the hope of a Jewish generation somehow interested in me. So while you were sitting in front of me, overtly condescending and internally irate, I was polite and I played dumb. But now, let me tell you what my good breeding wouldn't allow me to say then: he's more than interested in me, he calls me a billion times a day, he counts the days until I get there, and he couldn't be a better catch. So all of you cranky, sideways-glancing, jealous JAP-y haters out there can suck it because I didn't play by your silly rules and I still got one of the five non-nebbishe 20-somethings out there.
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You converted to Orthodox Judaism. Did it not occur to them that you would MARRY an Orthodox Jewish man? Was it you or they who missed the memo?
Were you, the giyoret, supposed to just join in and contribute Kugel recipes and then just wait to die?
Certainly people are aware that among the vows made when you went mikveh-diving was one promising to marry Jewish, keep a kosher household, and raise halacha-abiding talmidim chachamim?
You're very sweet.
yay for serious relationships with good catches!
So what exactly was it that they said? Did they outright way you voodood him? What is wrong with people...(apart from the obvious jealousy/desperation to get married)
No wonder they're angry. You've got unfair advantages. The frum Ashkenazi gene pool is very small. On the biological level you represent an increased chance of survival and health for your future husband's children.
Recent science has shown that we can detect degrees of difference in immune profile by smell. In inbred communities like ours and the Amish people are more likely to marry those with a very different HLA profile. A diverse profile gives children health advantages. In a very real sense shidduch dating is about passing "sniff test". Literally.
You have it easy. You're genetically different enough to have a wide pool of men who will find you slightly more interesting even if they don't know why. And the women will hate you for it.
While I certainly understand your frustration with the jealousy surrounding your current union, your racially insensitive comparisons between black women (and by the way I don't know any black women named LaQuisha, TaRonda or any thing else of that sort) and your supposedly jealous "Jewesses" is childish and uncalled for. I'm neither a black woman nor Jewish, however one thing I've noticed about both groups is that they are very protective of their own.
Perhaps these "jewesses" as you call them, are simply trying to SAVE one of their own from your racism and ignorance?
i guess you deliberately try to befriend most desperate girls to effectively shine on their background.. I have never seen such a case of shidduch envy in my life. I also wonder why you converted if you think so bad about Jews. Unlike Christianity, in Judaism theory is inseparable from practice, so it's not enough to just like the philosophy without trying to improve your relations with people
Aright! Thats awesome. (that you're happy and with someone who is also happy).
Don't let the _________s get you down.
I was kidding.
You've only mentioned Jewish *girls* in a negative light in this blog, if at all.
I do wonder, does this Boy read this blog? I wonder if he knows who you really are??
The Boy knows who I am -- and it's obvious through your comments that none of you do :)
Otherwise I'd be a racist, sexist anti-Semite nympho and my psychotherapy bills would be insurmountable.
You guys are very quick to cast stones. Remember, what you're seeing of Nameless is her writings and musing, which are intentionally written to be provocative and interesting to read.
Shes incredibly sweet, to the point that if you met her with your preconceptions from reading this blog, you would refuse to believe its really her.
Although dont believe what she writes about me. She makes me sound far better than I am. :)
I know who Nameless really is. You're just reading what she wants you to see. If she wasnt this interesting, you wouldnt all be coming to read, would you?
Hey, I got one of the awesome ones too, a not in the most traditional manner.
I actually know two LaQuishas, HA HA. It's just spelled LaKesha, not with a Q.
So quit getting all politically correct, it's her blog so if you don't like it then click 'x' and fuck off.
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