Fat People Kicked Off Popular Dating Site

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I’m not exactly up to date on my news, I under­stand.  I’d recently read that fat peo­ple, or those who had gained weight, were kicked off the pop­u­lar beautifulpeople.com web­site.  You can read the story here.

A beautifulpeople.com rep­re­sen­ta­tive was quoted as say­ing “Let­ting fat­ties roam the site is a direct threat to our busi­ness model and the very con­cept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.”  Wow.

I would hon­estly say that I’m not the biggest eye catcher of all the times (yes, I said ALL the times), I don’t have a one pack or gar­gan­tuan biceps, but what biceps I do have can admin­is­ter a wicked tight head lock if you get out of line! The point is that I prob­a­bly wouldn’t qual­ify for that site and I’m good with that because I’m good with “me.”

Con­fi­dence goes a long way, too.  I’ve dated women of, um, var­i­ous shapes, shades and sizes in my dat­ing adven­tures.  I’m friends with a good num­ber of them still and I think too much value is placed on looks, for sure.  I’m not going to tell you that looks aren’t impor­tant.  They are, it’s what get’s to the front door typ­i­cally.  How­ever, once you peel that sparkly wrap­per from your “gift” you know you’re hop­ing for some­thing awe­some inside.  That’s how I see it and I know I’m not alone there.

Really, it’s the loss of the other mem­bers on that crap web­site that plays into what’s wrong with dat­ing any­way.  I’d encour­age peo­ple to try a ser­vice like My Blind Cupid, which, as of this writ­ing, is still in Beta, I believe.

Any­way, that’s my ran­dom two cents today.  What do you guys think about sites like this and what they did?

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The Order of Operations for Dating

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I was read­ing through the Twit­ter­verse the other day when @lildevilmama, exas­per­ated, posted tweet to the tune of “Guys really need to get their ‘order of oper­a­tions’ of dat­ing right. #dat­ing­fail.”  I laughed and cried and other silly stuff.  I don’t know that @lildevilmama coined that term, but I’m going to say that she did.  The Order of Oper­a­tions for Dat­ing.  What should they be?

**Note** @lildevilmama also wrote up a piece on this very sub­ject as well that you should check out! Click the link!
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The Potency of Words

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I like to believe that peo­ple are basi­cally good.  When I encounter peo­ple in my every day life I would like to give them the ben­e­fit of the doubt and think that they are decent human beings. Even when it comes to dat­ing you start with a base level of respect and then build upon that foun­da­tion. Words from peo­ple we don’t know very well who are roman­ti­cally pur­su­ing us are intox­i­cat­ing. They can wreak havoc on our emo­tional well being. I’ve been drugged by words before and the hang­over? Not pretty. Read More »

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Talking Sports With Men.

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I grew up as a rel­a­tively pretty girl with a very strong tomboy side to my per­son­al­ity. I remem­ber being quite young (5-ish?) when my dad and my brother took a few min­utes to explain the four “downs” in foot­ball. I took right to it! I was a Cleve­land Browns fan from the first time I remem­ber see­ing a game! I also had reg­u­lar “date nights” with my dad at the old Munic­i­pal Sta­dium in Cleve­land, for Tribe games and Browns games. At my par­ents’ house, I still have a “Tower of Power” poster, signed by Joe Carter, framed tick­ets from the last series at Muni and open­ing day tick­ets at “the Jake”, etc. I could go on, but you get the pic­ture! Read More »

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Are Men Afraid of Successful & Superior Women?

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This topic has been dis­cussed all over the inter­webs.  It’s some­thing that was recently brought to my atten­tion because I was out at a bar with some bud­dies when a cou­ple of them were laugh­ing about this other guy they were out with who clammed up when find­ing out the woman he was hit­ting on was a PhD and a fre­quent guest-speaker sur­round­ing the top­ics of Foren­sic Psy­chol­ogy.  So what’s the big deal, I asked? Read More »

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