Extremely Flawed Social Experiment: The Set Up

What is it like to experience a dating site “on the other side”? Simply asking this question is setting myself up to be butthurt and angry, but if nothing else, I love the blog fodder. Fuck This is Why You’re Fat and Shit My Dad Says and Texts From Last Night and Dealbreakers… let’s talk about someone giving me a book deal for my sad, pathetic memoirs entitled “Some Fucking Bullshit Ass Online Dating Shit: A Book” to be created from http://blog.kiamatthews.com/tagged/online_dating

Yes, I know that a not-fat white chick will get more clicks than me, but just how many? Not only that, I wanted to see how people approach interaction with the not-fat white chick vs. blacky chubbs mcgee. It’s here where I am the most surprised.

Erin (seriouslythough) volunteered her photos. Luv u 4eva, Erin. We’re Tara Michelling the shit out of the DC area OK Cupid scene.

Well not really. I don’t plan on doing much, if any, interacting with people. That’s just too creepy.

The players:

Erin. So cute. White.

Me. Cute… like a cabbage-patch kid. Black. (Light skinned African-American with no negro dialect unless I want to have one.)

I will post some “findings” tomorrow. Let me just say that last night, sitting in my living room watching House, I was huffing and puffing, INCREDULOUS at some of the messages Erin received. As a 19-year old Fiona Apple told the MTV generation, “this world is bullshit.”

And before any research methods nerds come blah blah blahing my way about this “experiment”, please notice my heavy usage of sarcastic asshole quotes throughout this post. I know it’s flawed. Step off. It’s just a bit of (morbid) fun, ok?

[Day One and Two]

[Day Three]

[Day Four - Data]

[Day Five and Beyond]

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