THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS

Once again, another Jewish woman rails about where all the good men are, while rejecting huge swaths of them. The most recent train wreck comes in the form of Amy Klein at the Jewish Journal.

I want to make it clear that I have never met or spoken to Amy Klein. To the best of my knowledge, nobody I have slept with or even dated is friends with her, or even knows her. If they do, I have never been told with. Therefore, this disclosure is a non-disclosure. My only impression of her is based on her own words.

Rocker Cher once said that “Words are like weapons. They wound sometimes.” I recommend that Amy Klein buy that album and listen to the song “If I could turn back time.” Perhaps she would retract her most awful comments that she may claim were in jest, as if that makes them acceptable.

The entire purpose of Amy Klein’s column is to help her get her M.R.S. degree. She desperately wants to get married, and has desired this for some time. I find zero fault with this. I desired to find my life partner for what seemed like forever, and am relieved that this seems to have finally occurred.

While one should not compromise their core beliefs, they should examine their own beliefs to see where improvements can be made if necessary.

I would link to the column itself, but most of it is irrelevant to this column. The first few lines were what offended me, and had Ms. Klein left them out, the column would have remained unchanged. It would have been the same message without the venom.

Below are the offending words of Amy Klein.

“I hate that there’s another group of guys who are unavailable to me. Married people, actors, republicans, and other men who don’t like women: Gay men. In this town it’s not like you run into that many—I’m talking about republicans and married men.”

Sure, I could “lighten up.” After all, what are some harmless words directed at a small group of people? Why not tell jokes that are anti-black, anti-gay, or Allah forbid, anti-Islamofacist?

Because I supposedly belong to a group of oppressors, apparently I am fair game. Well democracy allows me to reply. Below is my reply to Amy Klein.

“Ms. Klein,

Your column on gay marriage was deeply offensive. If you want to announce to the world that you will not date republicans due to your own prejudices, that is fine. To say that republican men are unavailable, and hate women, is flat out ideological bigotry.

Ideological bigotry is just as harmful to society as racial or any other ethnic bigotry.

I want lower taxes and dead terrorists. That does not stop me from finding time to tell my girlfriend every day how much I love her. She is a liberal Obama supporter, and I am a staunch republican and McCain backer. Several of my male friends have married women of different political persuasions, and they are as happy as James Carville and Mary Matalin.

There are significantly more young Jewish republicans in Los Angeles than you would think. Most of us keep quiet for fear of being attacked. In that sense, Jewish republicans are the new gays.

I have a ton of single friends, and I have contributed to four marriages. I know plenty of young single Jews. Confirming a potential love interest is like confirming a Supreme Court Justice. It should be based on quality, not ideological litmus tests.

Good luck in your search. I wish no personal animus towards you. I also wish you give up the ideological bigotry and see republicans as human beings who are capable of human emotions, such as love.

I suggest you use Yom Kippur to reflect on my sincere words.

It is not about politics. It is about prejudice. It stings deeply, and you should not use your column to promote it.

Respectfully,

eric aka the Tygrrrr Express“

Columns like those of Amy Klein lead to me struggle with my darkest feelings. Part of me wants Amy Klein to remain single and childless, crying herself to sleep every night with the rest of the spinsters. After all, if she were to reproduce, she would just bring more Jewish liberal bigots into the world anyway.

I rescue myself from the precipice to remind myself that I need to be better than her. I should not wish infertility on any woman, much less a Jewish one. There are so few Jews in the world, and we have a 52% intermarriage rate. Therefore, more Jews being brought into the world, even if they grow up to be liberals, is a vital necessity. People can change and grow politically. They cannot do so if they cease to exist and the population itself collapses.

Amy Klein is only one woman, but she is symptomatic of a disease that is destroying Judaism.

Hatred is poison. It benefits nobody. I know another Jewish woman that is miserable because she does not have a boyfriend, while railing against other happy couples. She is a feminist, and she has contempt for women who choose to be housewives.

Equality for women gives them the right to enter the corporate world. It does not force them to do so, any more than it forces them to stay home. Some women want to be homemakers. It is a tough, honorable job, and it does not involve staying home all day watching soap operas. It is hard work.

This left wing feminist has hostility towards oppressive republican men. Yet she simultaneously wants to find a man with his act together, who is a good provider. Like many with female rage, whether Jewish or not, women like these cry for a companion while simultaneously sabotaging themselves from being in a position to lovingly accept one that does not fit every item on their left wing checklist.

Men with their act together who make a decent amount of money, enabling them to be better providers, often vote republican. This is not about oppressing women. It is about wanting lower taxes, which allows them to keep more of what they earn, so that they can spend it on many things, including their loving wife.

Another woman, Theresa Strasser, occasionally writes about how screwed up her love life ends up (I know nothing of her present situation.) She did a comedy routine where she said, “For this, press 1, for that, press 2, for this, press 3 (I forgot 1 through 3), If you are a republican, press 666 for the devil.”

Many in the crowd laughed. I was not amused.

I am far from perfect, but I treat people with human decency. Almost every girlfriend I have ever had has been politically liberal. In the Jewish community, especially in Los Angeles, this is normal. Yet tolerance trumped ideology. The relationships ended because we were not right for each other, but politics was not the deal breaker.

I have plenty of single male friends. I genuinely want people to be happy. I constantly offer to set people up with each other, under the condition that I be spared any wrath if the situation ends badly.

What I will not do is offer to help anybody that suffers from bigotry of any kind, including ideological bigotry.

Some would say that these women never sought my help. Well maybe they should. They are doing terrible on their own. A column with a large circulation is no substitute for a lovely warm body to fall asleep and wake up beside.

I pray to God that things work out between the Chicago Cannonball and me. We have to do our part, and we seem to be willing and able to do that. I thank God that while we do not care for the other one’s politics, that is overridden by the fact that we care about each other.

Hineni. Here I am. I am Jewish, republican, proud, and warm hearted.

eric

 

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