And the last person to stalk me was a month ago. And it was a guy.

oi! what happened?

what's wrong with someone being vegan?

I dunno...I couldn't live with a vegan. I mean, I'd want to share meals and stuff and while I do eat an occasional vegan meal I would miss the meat and stuff!
So I might be picky about dating one, too.

i think it depends on how 'militant' they are. i know a couple who have no qualms about the people around them eating meat/keeping it in the fridge etc. i used to be veggie and i lived with one boyfriend who just didn't cook and so was happy to eat veggie, but when i lived with another he cooked meat a lot and it was that which eventually turned me back!

so i can see it would be tricky at the living-together stage, but i think at the dating stage it wouldn't be a problem. and then, if the relationship was serious enough to lead to living together, i reckon people would try and work around it.

I was lured away from veganism after 11 years by watching my then-girlfriend eat mussels!

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clearlyfar too attractive, or active, or thoughtful for me to keep up with.

If you say that style of thing again I actually will kick you in the head on purpose. You don't know any of that til you try it out.

As to veggie-and-carnivore, in our house it seems to have just gone down to making separate meals. And intermittent wails of 'Give me MEAT!' when I forget and sign me and the Fella up for dinner as made by the veggie.

Well most on OkCupid seem to be of the militant/passionate strain.

Militantly attractive?

That's...how do you do that?

I wonder if I could be comfortable in a relationship with anyone really militant about anything...

That said, I'm the only vegetarian in the family (although my 5 year old declared just a few days ago she wants to be one, too), and it has caused us no trouble. Sometimes the whole family eats vegetarian food, sometimes I make something different for myself. *shrug*

Yeah I am happy to have a relationship with a vegan or someone of any philosophy, but a militant of any description - even if we agreed on what she were militant about - I'd waver at.

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Militantly attractive?

militantly vegan i think

passionate and militant aren't quite the same. my closest vegan friend is very passionate about checking ingredients and buying cosmetics that she knows are ok etc, but she would never ever preach to anyone else.

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Militantly attractive?

militantly vegan i think

passionate and militant aren't quite the same. my closest vegan friend is very passionate about checking ingredients and buying cosmetics that she knows are ok etc, but she would never ever preach to anyone else.

Same here - a close vegan friend of mine is very passionate about it, and her myspace/social messaging about me sections are filled up with pro-vegan or anti-meat videos, blogs and that. But that's more because she feels that she should write something ( that she feels is) worthwhile there, as opposed to most peoples' crappy descriptions of themselves.
But she is actually awesome. And she dates a staunch carnivore.

It takes all sorts, and I definitely wouldn't dismiss someone for that unless they still seem totally obsessed after further contact!

heh I'd dismiss them

with some subjects youdon't want to be constantly argueing and or preached too about something

my brother is Hare Khrisna and his diet/view have distinctly negatively impacted on our relationship, I don't wanna hang out when i know there will just be arguements and preaching

As a former vegan, I'd say anyone who was preachy about their vegan diet is completely wasting their time, as well as being an ass. I knew a few preachy types, and there's nothing that makes you want to reach for the meat pies sooner. But it's perfectly possible to be a committed, passionate vegan without boring the pants off everyone within a 100-yard radius about it, and I knew plenty of those as well. You probably all do, too, except unless you've had dinner with them you might not know they were vegan.

*bounces in*

Date number two with "TheChad" (said as one word) is tonight. My comment before date number one was that if it did not go well I was giving up on dating and living to be an old lady with 80 cats. I am currently making no plans to go buy kitties. And I can't seem to stop smiling for long...



*bounces out*

...an old lady with 80 cats...

Cats, being chaos vectors, must be kept in odd-numbered parcels, lest they pair off and cause a deep entropy zone to form. And the correct number is actually 85.

*takes notes*

It seems the only girls who are bothering to respond to my messages...are Americans. In America.

*shrugs*

It could happen...

Just sayin'