It’s a shame for them, isn’t it?
Friday, 7 January 2011
21st Century Sex War.
I just watched a short documentary on Internet dating. It was made entirely from the females’ point of view, so maybe it was a bit lopsided. Nevertheless, the bottom line was just what I would have expected. The women do it to find a lasting relationship; the men do it to gather a harem. So, the women have to suffer the indignity of seeing their new beaus swanning in and out of Facebook on the arms of a dozen other women, while the men have to deal with the pressure of having some pesky woman expecting a degree of exclusivity.
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Actually, I just read an interesting article that said the opposite. That men who aren't in their twenties only want a sexual relationship and men older who are internet dating also want long term relationships. I think men are more sexually driven at first than a woman but that doesn't mean that all of you only want just that. I used to internet date and actually met a lot of long term b.f.'s which ended, but that wasn't because of them being superficial, or not wanting something long lasting. When I'm ready to go out into the dating world again, I definitely would try internet dating again. That show sounds like it purposefully wanted to hone in on the old boring stereotypes with the differences between genders. What do you think?
You might well be right, Wendy. It was on prime time TV after all. Having said which, it was supposedly based on the real-life experiences of a woman who writes an internet dating blog for a magazine. One thing that did interest me, though, was that they also interviewed several women who were regular internet daters, and they all said the same thing: that men habitually lie on their profiles, even about such visible things as their height. Why would they do that when they know they're going to be exposed as liars?
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