looking4him is offline looking4him Post #1  March 15,2010, 4:48pm
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I came across a post with a topic of interracial dating. The person expressed that some/ a lot of people on here aren't open to interracial dating. Just to test this theory I opened up my match settings in the race department. I dont mind dating a guy who is outside my race. As soon as the new matches started rolling in they were instantly closed with other being selected as the reason for closure. What a shame because to me the reason you sign up for a site such as EH is to meet people you would not normally talk to, but if you are closing some one based on their race you might as well save your money and just stick to the people you would normally date.
 
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You are assuming it was based on race without any basis in fact. I believe the other party also has to have similar settings in order to match (although not positive about that).

Since you opened yourself up, there are more men who can close you for whatever reason.
 
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Closed "Other" = don't feel like doing this anymore; I don't like his/her pic; I'm in a bad mood; I don't like his/name; This match's height is all wrong; I don't like his/her occupation; I was hoping for someone younger; He/she doesn't make enough money; His/her taste in music s*u*c*k*s, etc. etc.
 
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In EH you set the races of people that you are willing to communicate with. You will not get matched with someone outside of your racial preference for dating. If you picked out a race what was not your own, then you might have been called on it, especially if you picked Asian and are obvioulsy Latino or something else.
 
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I hope your never on a jury where i'm being tried for a crime I didn't commit...b/c i'll be doomed. : ) As others stated, your assumptions are very premature and while that may be at least one of the reason for a small percentage of the reasons you were closed under "other"...i'd doubt it was the main reason. And as stated, allowing for other races creates more potential profiles your way.
 
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looking4him wrote :
I came across a post with a topic of interracial dating. The person expressed that some/ a lot of people on here aren't open to interracial dating. Just to test this theory I opened up my match settings in the race department.
Why the need to test a theory, when it's well known that many people have racial preferences in dating?

If they didn't, there would be no need to let people specify which race(s) they're interested in.

If you don't think these preferences are valid, then neither are preferences based on height, weight, hair, age, religion, or just about anything else.
 
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Yeah I don't understand the point of this little experiment either. You might have achieved as much if you put up an ugly pic of some stranger and then gone "ITS TRUE UGLY PEOPLE DON'T GET DATES".

People won't date people outside their race. So what? That's understandable.

At least you managed to occupy yourself for a good hour or so.
 
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looking4him wrote :
I came across a post with a topic of interracial dating. The person expressed that some/ a lot of people on here aren't open to interracial dating. Just to test this theory I opened up my match settings in the race department. I dont mind dating a guy who is outside my race. As soon as the new matches started rolling in they were instantly closed with other being selected as the reason for closure.
My match settings are set for all races and the only men that either initiate communication or respond to me are white (except one). I get closed a lot with "other" and I often use "other". "Other" for me may stand for: to short (I'm 5'10), boring profile, etc. Statistically and surprisingly more black men (almost all of my African American matches) have closed me with "other" extremely quickly. Go figure.
 
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I don't see your little experiment proving anything except the few men who you were matched with didn't see you as a good match for them.
 
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Real quick:

Would you REALLY want to date someone who dislikes you for your race anyways? I know it's a shame, I get that solely for my age, military occupation (which is sad because I was sent home for good after getting FUBAR and they won't have to wait or watch me ship out), the area I live in, the fact that I live on my own and raised myself before I met my mother... The list goes on.

You want to know how I deal with it? Simple, I feel minor reluctant to being judged, but mostly I just feel relieved I won't become attached to one day find my heart on the sidewalk when they say they were "giving me a chance."

Whether or not race WAS their reason, you are better than to be with someone or invest time into someone who makes presumptions based on your skin color.. Or really anything other than "do you make them content or happy."

I apologize for rambling, it's nearly 3am and I just got home from work, but I hope that you alreadyknow what I am saying to be true, and that a reminder of it is all you needed.
 
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