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These artificial groupings of people are commonly used when describing people, and all too often in the shidduch world. Personally, I find these labels offensive, and truly meaningless.
The boy/girl entering shidduch eligibility can be labeled as virtually anything, and this has no real bearing on how he/she will be living life after marriage. How many “learning boys” are truly so? Many try, but cannot sustain the life of dependency, and lack the resources to remain outside the working world. Even more do not really belong there, and should be addressing their parnosoh needs in a Torah and honest way, and taking steps to pursue gainful employment. Yet, such boys are labeled “learning boys” or “yeshivish”, with zero correlation to their actual futures. We would be far more productive if we assessed our shidduch age boys and girls by their midos (I refer specifically to the real midos, not the standard “information” that flows freely when inquiries are made about a shidduch prospect).
The same problem is when we label “hashkafa” as Chareidi, Modern, Machmir, and similar concoctions. These words do not really carry any standard definition, and tell us virtually nothing about the compatibility for a shidduch.
If all this was funny, we might be laughing a lot. But it is a tragic misuse of our intellect.