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Subject: Re: LOVE IS BLIND Bride Dumps Groom at Altar for Not Being Woke
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:09:05 -0400
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On 2025-03-11 12:23 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Why would she wait until she's standing at the altar to bring this up and make
>> the decision not to marry him?
> 
>> Like most hard-lefties, it's not enough for her to have her beliefs. She has
>> to make sure everyone knows about them, too, so she can feel morally superior.
>> She wanted to make a grand show out of how virtuous she believes herself to be
>> in order to feed her own bloated ego.
> 
>> Can you imagine being married to a person like that? Dude dodged a serious
>> bullet there.
> 
> I can't even imagine being desperate enough for attention to humiliate
> myself on national television reality programming.
> 
> Whose self esteem is that low?
> 
>> -----------------------
> 
>> https://torontosun.com/entertainment/television/woke-love-is-blind-star-leaves-match-at-altar-for-not-sharing-same-views
> 
>> . . .
> 
>> One user noted: "Her BS virtue signaling is so transparent. She doesn't care
>> about any of the stupid stuff she brought up. She just wants to be the centre
>> of attention."
> 
> Good point
> 
>> "I remember I asked him about Black Lives Matter and I'm no expert, but when I
>> asked him about it, he was like, 'I guess I never really thought too much
>> about it,'" she said. Their season was filmed in Minneapolis, where the BLM
>> movement began following the murder of George Floyd. Carlton was particularly
>> miffed that Mezzenga didn't have a strong opinion on it because it happened in
>> their hometown.
> 
> BLM began on social media after Trayvon Martin and (the angel) Michael Brown.
> The Ferguson protest pretty much destroyed all the businesses in town.
> 
>> "That affected me," she explained to her family.
> 
> Is it too late to get that treated?
> 
>> . . .
> 
>> The reality show follows people as they date each other in "pods", where they
>> can talk to each other by speaker but not see each other as they fall in love.
>> Once a proposal takes place, the newly engaged couple lay eyes on each other
>> for the first time, testing if love is truly blind.
> 
> Is this a Canadian-only thing or is it in other countries too?

No idea. I don't watch reality shows from *any* country, including this one.
> 
> Love isn't blind. Men are morons to participate.

Why just men? The whole concept seems equally demeaning to both the men 
*and* the women involved.

Mind you, I remember a passage in The Gulag Archipelago where 
Solzhenitsyn mentions cases where men married women sight unseen in the 
labour camps. Apparently, camps that had both men and women had separate 
areas for men and women with a tall solid fence between them that kept 
the men and women from seeing each other. Sometimes, someone on one side 
of the fence heard someone on the other side of the fence talking their 
own language - the Soviet Union had a lot of ethnic minorities, many of 
which did not have Russian as a first language - so a Ukrainian man 
might hear a Ukrainian woman on the other side of the fence. They would 
strike up a conversation and, if they hit it off, might eventually get 
an appropriate clergyman to marry them, still sight unseen. (Lenin and 
Stalin were both militant atheists so LOTS of clergymen got sent to the 
Gulag.)

Of course these marriages were fraught with difficulties given that the 
couple was on opposite sides of a fence. I've read a number of books on 
the subject and can't recall ever hearing of situations where the new 
couple would be allowed to be on the same side of the fence during their 
sentence. Then there's the problem of surviving your sentence. 
Solzhenitsyn says only 1 in 7 people even survived their sentences. 
Given the incredible privation involved - dangerous work under 
deplorable conditions with minimal food, frequently in extremely harsh 
environments (picture -50 or colder) - even if you survived your 
sentence, the spouse you'd never seen might not and you might well end 
up as a widow/widower, never having seen your spouse let alone having 
consummated your marriage.

In case you're thinking that you could endure a sentence in the Gulag 
standing on your head that might be possible if you'd been arrested in 
Lenin's day when the sentences were usually only 2 or 3 years but Stalin 
was much harsher and soon the norm was 8 to 10 years. By the post-war 
era it was 25 years. You really didn't have to do much to get one of 
those sentences either!

-- 
Rhino