Supreme Court Invalidates anti-Homosexual Laws. It's good to see something in politics that doesn't make me angry :)

Something my brain has been chewing on -- a while ago I mentioned listening to an atheist from Yeshiva some time back talk with some other Jews on the meaning of being a Jew. One of the things he said was on Yeshivas, and can be generalized, perhaps, to all private, single-gender schools. He said that he had never dated, and couldn't imagine getting married, because he had huge difficulties relating to women -- building emotional ties, trust, etc. He speculated that he had missed out on social interaction with the opposite gender because of the Yeshiva experience. Oddly, he didn't seem at all bitter about it -- he just seemed very matter-of-fact about his certainty that he won't ever have a significant other in his life.

A few thoughts:

• Before falling in love the first time, I think it's easier for people to face a life without having someone to be in love with. I remember, before Martha, and even a bit moreso before ----, it didn't bother me at all being alone and thinking about myself as alone. I suppose it's kind of an emotional virginity, and to lose it is to be changed forever...
• Is this always a difficulty for people going to single-gendered schools? Maybe it's akin to the difficulties reported by people who were home-schooled for a time
• He apparently stood up to his UltraOrthodox parents at some time, and told them to accept him or consider him dead. That takes serious guts.

Hmm. I really should tweak my netdiary software so I don't need to turn off the PRE tag manually to do a list. Hmm. OTOH, the more tweaking I do like that, the closer I get to needing to fully parse HTML to 'do the right thing'.