Why are Jewish Women less willing to date outside of their race/circle than Jewish Men?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Jewish brother married a shiksa. She converted to Judaism.

Shiksa is a derogatory term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a Jewish woman married to a non-Jewish man. DH will freely admit that he's always had a thing for Jewish women, so I guess he's a lucky guy! I dated both Jews and gentiles when I was younger. The one thing that all of my non-Jewish boyfriends had in common is that they weren't religious. I was always open to marrying someone not Jewish, but I never wanted to be married to someone who practiced a different religion, since I was adamant about raising Jewish children. DH was raised Catholic, but has been an atheist since he was a teenager. Like a PP's husband, he can best be described as "Jew-ish" since he's happy to go along with raising our kids Jewish. He's in no way interested in converting, but he finds the religion academically interesting.

OP, where do you fall on the religion scale? Many of my female Jewish friends share my philosophy, and are open to dating/marrying non-Jews as long as they aren't religious.

OP here - agnostic. I wouldn't particularly care what potential kids would be raised as.

[Anonymous]

Men will accept a wife (who is probably pursuing the man) and visa versa - women will seek a financial trophy husband.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Men will accept a wife (who is probably pursuing the man) and visa versa - women will seek a financial trophy husband.

Nope. Try again.

[Anonymous]

OP, this has been the case for centuries. DNA proof too.
FWIW, the same is true in the black community.

[Anonymous]

I think it's because Jewish men are considered desirable by non-Jews and Jewish women are not. So Jewish men think they're upgrading by interdating and Jewish women think they're downgrading.

I know that's not nice, but you did asked about a generalization so I'm explaining in generalizations.

It's also a bit more sensitive for a man to convert to Judaism than a woman, so Jewish women probably assume a non-Jewish man would not convert.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's because Jewish men are considered desirable by non-Jews and Jewish women are not. So Jewish men think they're upgrading by interdating and Jewish women think they're downgrading.

I know that's not nice, but you did asked about a generalization so I'm explaining in generalizations.

It's also a bit more sensitive for a man to convert to Judaism than a woman, so Jewish women probably assume a non-Jewish man would not convert.

That's absurd. Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski come to mind...