Should I date a girl with a missing finger?

Here's a recent chain-yanking posting on Yahoo Answers [link]:

The Question

I hooked up with a girl from an internet dating site. When we met I saw that she's missing a finger. She never told me about it before we met. She never mentioned it on our date, but it's all I could think about. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with loosing a finger, but why didn't she talk about it? You'd think she should explain something like that! She's really nice and she's cute and I think she'd make a great wife some day, but I'm a little spooked about the finger thing. Should I ask her out again? I feel weird about asking, but maybe I should just call her and explain why I couldn't stop staring at her hand?

Additional Details

Oh, yea. I should have said this before. I was up late last night because I couldn't stop thinking how weird it was. Then I realized that it was her left ring finger! That's probably a really bad omen...

Okay. You guys are probably right. It's silly for me to fret so much over a missing digit. There is one thing that I haven't figured out yet. Can I still hold her hand? If so, should I thread my fingers through her fingers or just go palm-to-palm? Do you think her missing finger would hurt if I were to give her hand a squeeze?

Zig, your answer has me really freaked out. What if it's a genetic defect? I don't want my kids turning out like The Simpsons.

Best Answer

Was your online relationship straight email or did you im with her?

If you were IMing with her, did you notice anything about her typing skills? Maybe a suttle mistroking or something like that?

I agree with you, it is somewhat odd that she never brought this up. If I were you, I would start pressing her to reveal how she lost it. Maybe the reason why she didn't fully disclose is not because she's insecure about it but maybe she was performing some kind of questionable or illegal activity when she lost it.

Every person is a mystery.

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Dude, I just checked back with you and read your additional details. If indeed it is her ring finger then if I were you I would get away from her ASAP! Does she have your address and telephone number? Hopefully you were smart and did not pass that out to someone you met on the internet.

There's a high probability that she's part of a feminist cult called Order of Venus, or something like that. I've heard that in this cult, to be initiated into the higher circles you must cut off your ring finger. Members of this cult are VERY anti man and do internet recruiting to find their victims.

This was on the drudgereport a few weeks ago!

Asker's Rating:
I called the chick and it turns out that I was mistaken. All of her fingers were accounted for after all. I must have miscounted. Now I feel pretty silly.