With an open heart and the chutzpah of a truth-seeking Jewess, I decided to give the app for „Jews with ridiculously high standards“ a shot.
If you, like me, are a Jewess with way too much time on your hands in quarantine and a raging Twitter habit, you may have heard about the latest in Jewish dating the Lox Club. For those who havent yet come across it, the Lox Club is a new Jewish dating app that advertises itself as being “for Jews with ridiculously high standards.”
While, on its surface, the framing of the Club as an exclusive hideaway from the legions of fish-wielding gentiles on Tinder may sound enticing, I have to admit that the phrase “ridiculously high standards,” especially in regard to a dating app, activates my fight or flight instinct. It makes me ask the questions of what they consider high standards to be, how they go about determining if a person is “worthy” of being placed among the oh-so-holy profiles on their app (that will inevitably be speedily swiped through anyway), and who makes the call of which applicants make the cut.
I couldnt help but wonder if, like most things that advertise themselves as being for only a select group of people – and that charge a $12 monthly fee (not an insignificant amount of money!) – the Lox Club would be as classist as I feared. (I also couldnt help but wonder if writing this article about a dating app makes me Carrie Bradshaw if she was Jewish and knew what an iPhone let alone a dating app is, but thats a conversation for another time.)