MSS: Hard for me to understand why you consider this paying, begging for attention. Perhaps it’s attitudes such as yours that are humiliating to the singles.
The reality that redding shidduchim takes tremendous amounts of time and effort and coming up with a fair way of compensationg those who are ready to ut in the effort is far from humilating. Is it humilating to pay for clothes we wear. is it humilating to pay for the homes we live in. why is it humilating to pay the people who spend time and energy to get us to the chuppah. The only question is figuring out the effective and accurate cost for such a invaluable service. The fact that it hasn’t been done this way, shouldn’t stop anyone, especially since the old system contributed to the tragic sitaution we presently find ourselves in.
If you want to view it as paying, begging, humilating… that’s your choice, but it’s certainly NOT reality.
The best b’derech hateva histadlus one can do is that which will generate dates for themselves. The jury is out whether this new program will accomplish that, but unless you decide it’s humiltating it isn’t.
And if it accomplishes it, then it is certainly well worth it…..
oh did i forget to mention, we still haven’t seen any other sniffs of a plan from anyone anywhere…
just saying…. and i’d bet that you weren’t gung who on the 100/400 program when it first started either….