Here’s your first rant. I’ll respond as if you are actually listening –
So, those of us who admit that the shidduch crisis is real are “not willing to face the painful reality?”
you cut me off in mid sentence. I said those who are not willing to face the painful reality of it being in our court, and not about numbers.
One simple question, what do you think we would have to gain by spreading a rumor that there’s a shidduch crisis? Who would benefit from this giant conspiracy and how?
I didn’t say anyone was spreading rumors about a shidduch crisis. I just said it isn’t about that specific number theory. I was pretty clear I expressed that there was a problem, I was just silly to think I could hold of a different one than you see.
It’s called an analogy…
obviously. I just don’t think it’s a good analogy as I made pretty clear in my next comment that nobody knows how many people are actually in the dating pool (as a whole) so we can’t say we know the numbers are off.
Obviously it was arbitrary. The point has nothing to do with which numbers are chosen. The point is that, with population growth, the number of people born in say 2018 will exceed the number born in 2014. You can’t possibly deny this unless you’re delusional.
Thank you for you calm and rational viewpoint. I guess that would make all others null and void?
I am well aware of what population growth means. I just happen to have a different view of whether or not that would affect shidduchim. I am not convinced all 21 year olds marry all 23 year olds and I am not convinced all females born frum in 1984 grow up at all, let alone frum. There are other views on this. I hope that is okay with you.
You can whine about a generation’s self-absorption all you want, but it isn’t going to make males spawn out of nowhere.
I wasn’t whining about the generations self-absorption. I was telling you that that has more to do with the number of unmarried people than saying Gd forgot to send down more males. It’s a valid and differing view point. I hope that’s okay.
The only solution is to stop marrying at an age gap.
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If you deny the entire issue, then how can you claim to care about the victims?
I never denied the issue of there being many unmarried people. I denied it being the numbers/age gap or whatever you want to call it theory. Had you read what I wrote instead of what you thought I wrote you would have seen that.
Would it be disgusting to say a Holocaust denier doesn’t care about Holocaust victims?
No. But that has nothing to do with this conversation. I never denied that there are far too many singles. That was your mental leap.
You won’t respond because you can’t.
No, I didn’t want to respond because I felt like crying after being berated by you and don’t enjoy confrontations. Why the heck would I want to respond to someone who spits bullets at me for having a different opinion about the CAUSE of the shidduch problem and calls me names, accuses me of dumb things and CLEARLY didn’t bother reading my post.
You’re couching your inability to counter the argument behind a moral superiority complex, and it’s not working.
I don’t have a moral superiority complex, I just have a very weak composition
I hope all these answers make your day. And if I was a troll, it sure as heck beats being a bully.