If I weren’t in Yosemite at the moment I might add a few, but to keep up with my posting I decided to schedule this ahead of time.
By Chananya Goldman
Stuff single frum guys like:
Saying “I think I hear a baby crying” in a room full of young marrieds.
Professing their dislike of labels, but using them all the time anyways.
Starbucks.
GPS.
Email—it’s so much easier to say no to a pesky shadchan via email.
Asking girls out on your own. This depends on your particular sub-denomination (see below).
Stuff single ______ guys like:
- Yeshivish
- Girls’ high school graduation albums.
- Lounges.
- Meeting parents before a first date.
- Law school (if still single by age 27).
- “Modern yeshivish” (i.e. guys who went to black-white yeshiva for a few years, then to college).
- Girls who can discuss things like density functional theory.
- Hypothetical out-of-the-box girls.
- Science vs. Torah stuff.
- MO machmir
- YU politics, especially the gay issue.
- Girls who can discuss an obscure Rashi at the end of the 5th perek of Machshirin.
- Science vs. Torah stuff.
- MO liberal
- 1-800-get-a-heter
Stuff single frum guys don’t like
Getting the “what are you looking for” question from random strangers.
Getting called up for an aliya as ????? ….
Being called a “boy”.
Girls who dumb themselves down.
Perfume.
Girls who talk too much.
Girls who don’t talk.
Sefira/3-weeks
Stuff single frum guys aren’t sure if they like
Being physically active
Shabbatons
Secular girls (don’t they seem easier to talk to?)
SYAS/Frumster