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In reply to the discussion: ‘No Blacks’ Is Not a Sexual Preference. It's Racism. [View all]dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)28. I'm not attracted to stupid people
I met my husband on match.com. while my profile had no preference, my criteria was if you couldn't string a sentence together, if you talked about the Yankees to much or if your message was "hey, you're really hot, wanna fool around?" you were dead in the water. If you spoke of your favorite authors that weren't Dan Brown, if your references to music included Django or Schubert, if you had a penchant for history, Shakespeare and science, and could converse about the Enlightenment then I found you attractive. Sadly, there aren't many of them but I got myself the sweetest nerd whoever lived.
Some if us get more turned on by grey matter than skin color.
ETA I'm a straight white woman if that matters.
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It would be interesting to see if those results hold up outside of just gay/bi Australian men
arcane1
Sep 2015
#1
I expect they'd show something similar. I read an article recently about online dating apps
Marr
Sep 2015
#3
Why is it difficult to think the some gays are racist? They are just like everyone else, they have
kelliekat44
Sep 2015
#58
Do women owe an explanation as to why they don't want to date this or that guy?
The2ndWheel
Sep 2015
#14
People always read stuff like this and think it's about complaining about individual people
gollygee
Sep 2015
#17
Reluctance for self-examination could be part of it, but "So what am I supposed to do about it?"...
Silent3
Sep 2015
#30
In the case of physical attraction, what is one supposed to do with that awareness?
Silent3
Sep 2015
#34
It's a funny thing about attraction. I am Italo-Anglo-Dutch. For some reason I have always
smirkymonkey
Sep 2015
#69
So Now We're Telling People Who They are Supposed to be Sexually Attracted To?
On the Road
Sep 2015
#55