Comments on: What Was the Worst Line You’ve Ever Read in an Online Dating Profile?

By: amy

amy — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:27:41 +0000

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“Just as comfortable in heels as a pair of jeans”
– especially bad if it is on a guy’s profile”

what? are you kidding that would be a turn on! what can i say i am unique (aka wierd)

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:30:32 +0000

I always found it interesting to read a really compelling profile, well written, good grammar and spelling, introspective, few or no cliches. THEN you get the actual email from the person, and it’s like Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde! There is no way the man writing the emails is the man that wrote the profile. RED FLAG!

By: Goldie

Goldie — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:55:30 +0000

Nothing to contribute, just wanted to say that Your Lovelife #33 made me LOL @ this:

“My name’s Earl, and I live in my mother’s basement with my two cats, Bart and Lisa, and my dog Spork.”

Very nice

Also, #39, I actually found this kind of cute, although way TMI for a profile. But, hey, at least the guy’s got a positive outlook:

“I’m a self employed carpenter, I’ve been married twice,my first wife had a boyfriend, and my second left me for a women. Icould’nt get mad at my second wife because I like girls also.”

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:40:18 +0000

Let’s see how about the cliche that you are “equally comfortable in a tux or jeans,” or the request that a woman is equally comfortable dressed up or in jeans? Aren’t most professional adults capable of dressing appropriately for special occasions? Or just most adults period? I think people figure it out by senior prom. Does anyone really break out in hives if they have to wear formal attire?
Um, here is one that is really common and gross. Getting emails from white men (I’m a black woman) who will say that they are “open-minded” and “want the experience of being with a black woman,” while making it clear that they do not want to date me at all. Most recent one. ”I’ve always wanted to date a black woman like you. I don’t want anything serious, but I’m very open-minded and I’m looking for new experiences, etc.” I don’t reply to those clearly, although part of me wants to write back something telling the person what a racist idiot he is. Because it’s like, wow, how awesome. You want to see what it’s like to sleep with a black woman but you don’t want anyone to know that you have, and you think that emailing and requesting that on a regular dating site will actually work. I’m sorry, are many professional women with two advanced degrees hoping to get used like trash by random men? Who would consent to being someone’s racist science experiment? Isn’t that what Craigslist is for? Or hookers maybe. I can’t see how you’d expect to get that for free.
But it’s pretty common, it’s gross and offensive, and it’s the lamest thing I’ve encountered, and I’ve only been online for a couple of months. I hope I’m not tipping off any creeps who might re-evaluate their strategy here. However, I think that anyone with this attitude would show his hand soon enough for any unsuspecting women to run for the hills.
At any rate, I would love to know if anyone thinks that black women are just lining up to get used and tossed aside by someone who’d never be seen with them publicly. That can’t ever work.
Oh, also got an email from someone telling me that I looked like I’d be a “good submissive.” Again, regular online dating site, and I’m not sure what that means and I’m not into that, nor would anything in my profile suggest that I am.
Really, really bad grammar that goes beyond anything that could be excused by typos. People claiming to be college educated or beyond who have a worse command of grammar than a 4 year old.
And any man who either writes in private or in his profile bragging about being sensual, having a lot of stamina, etc. Again, that sounds like something for Craigslist.

By: another FSM fan

another FSM fan — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:58:19 +0000

#41
And this is a profile on a Christian website, to boot.
“Christian Dom Seeking Christian Submissive”
-> Maybe the profile was otherwise awful, and perhaps 99% of people will quickly click away, but I think this is exactly the kind of thing to be up front about in a profile. The Dom/Sub community is already a minority and the Christian faction a small minority within that.
The guy probably isn’t expecting a ton of responses, and knows he’s taking a shot in the dark. Still, if he doesn’t put out there what he’s looking for, he’s even more unlikely to find it.
Besides, that kind of thing is rather awkward to bring up when you’re first getting to know someone. Better to put it on the table up front.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:32:27 +0000

“Just as comfortable in heels as a pair of jeans”

– especially bad if it is on a guy’s profile

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:31:23 +0000

I’m ____ years old, but I look like I’m only ___-

By: starthrower68

starthrower68 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:29:01 +0000

BTW, the phrase “work hard and play hard”? That’s gotta go.

By: starthrower68

starthrower68 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:33:58 +0000

I’m suprised – and maybe I shouldn’t be – at the number of profiles where they put up a picture and nothing else. Or they don’t even put up the picture. And then there are those princes that want to discuss all their sexual preferences and fantasies, etc. in their profile. Because women just love that stuff.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:05:03 +0000

So everyone’s OK with the general idea of ghostwritten profiles? Then Photoshopped pictures should be fine too, right? And after all that disingenuous tweaking, how are you supposed to make any sort of realistic judgment about the qualities of the person who the profile represents? Whether a person can express themselves attractively and coherently and has something interesting to say is an important part of choosing whom to email. Maybe you’ll figure it out in the first few emails you receive back, but that’s a waste of everyone’s time. You are who you are, and having someone else write you a fascinating profile or digitally remove those 30 unwanted pounds isn’t going to change the ultimate outcome. In fact, doing those things just sets you up to disappoint your date if they finally do meet you you’re not going to look or sound like your profile, and there goes that first impression.