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From: storer@cse.ogi.edu (Martin Storer)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Dating service
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Date: 3 Sep 90 05:00:58 GMT
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In article <13687@bunker.UUCP> Joe.Chamberlain@f140.n150.z1.fidonet.org writes:
  [deleted: another poster's statement that you can probably sue for
   discrimination a dating service refusing to serve a disabled person]

>        This must be my day for saying "get real please."
>
>        The average dating service cannot gaurantee to provide a
>date for any handicapped individual.  99.9% of the dating
>population is seeking a "Tom Cruise" or "Vanna White".  They are
>not seeking people in wheelchairs, on crutches, deaf, blind, or
>spastic.

  I think it must be hard to find a "Tom Cruise" or a "Vanna White"
  through a dating service.

  But who says a dating service has to guarantee anything?  I'm sure
  many handicapped people would be willing to take a chance with a
  dating service as long as the service made an honest effort to
  serve them:  put their vital stats in their database, circulated
  them as much as anyone else's, etc.  The "service" in question
  refused to do even that, without a guarantee.

>
>        If you want a date then YOU need to go looking.  Ask the
>girl at school, work, or at the pizza parlor.  Get YOURSELF out
>so that YOU can met people.

  The friend on whose behalf I originally started this thread has
  done that for years, without much success as far as dates go.  

>
>        It is YOUR responsibility to get a date.  If you want
>someone else to get you one, then hire a pimp--he can gaurantee
>delivery.

  It is YOUR responsibility to get a date, with or without the help
  of a dating service.  A friend of mine met his wife through a dating
  service--who the hell cares how you meet someone if you end up
  becoming friends or lovers?

  "Hire a pimp," indeed.  Hire a brain.

	Marty

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