Am I the only person who if fascinated by the discussion of the “shidduch crisis”? What fascinates me is that there can be so much discussion, so much text, and apparently so much passion, about something that seems devoid of facts and reason. No one can define what constitutes the “crisis,” no one has facts to support his or her quasi-mathematical explanation of the “crisis,” and no one in the discussion has the mathematical knowledge to account for the crisis (OK, I’m tired of using the quotation marks).
I think a discussion of the “Pennsy Pinkie crisis” would be more illuminating. I have not seen a Pennsy Pinkie in years (other than at the bottom of a bin in my garage). Has Pennsy stopped making Pinkies? Has a rabbi in Boro Park determined that Pennsy Pinkies are not tznius? Has a decline in motor skills among children led to the abandonment of play with a Pennsy Pinkie? A discussion of this topic would be as informed and informative as the discussion to date of the shidduch crisis.