[foldr]

Rabidly liberal = professes to care a lot about the poor and disadvantaged, but finds the prospect of sleeping with one of them unthinkable.

[dang]

Please don't make acerbic swipes at other users. If there's a general point you want to make about dating and social class, that's easy enough to formulate without being snarky or personal.

[aaronbrethorst]

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say, but it sounds kind of like an unnecessary personal attack.

[meatysnapper]

How is it a personal attack if he likes their 'rabid liberality' (to paraphrase Seinfeld)?

[foldr]

It's not really a personal attack. Many people wish to date only within or above their social class. I'm just questioning whether this attitude is compatible with being "rabidly liberal".

(Unless what you're saying is that while you personally are not rabidly liberal, you want to date someone who is.)

[aaronbrethorst]

I'm still not clear on what your original reply to me was supposed to mean, except that you seem to be making some unfounded assumptions about someone (or two people) you don't know.

[foldr]

I'm just going with what your post says. Your criteria, even making allowances for half-exaggeration, clearly rule out anyone who is poor or disadvantaged as a potential partner. And although you don't explicitly say that you regard yourself as rabidly liberal, it's reasonable to assume that you do given that you want to date someone who is. (But of course, you may be a conservative who wants to date a liberal, in which case, feel free to correct me.)

[TillE]

> even making allowances for half-exaggeration

You might want to loosen that allowance a little bit. I'm sure they meant "intelligent", not literally a professor.

[foldr]

I was going more with the "Ivy-eaducated" part, but sure, if none of that was meant at all literally, then my point doesn't apply.