I don’t care if “new friends” is an option. The site is called OKCUPID, not OKBROS or OKBFF.
What you mean is, you’re looking for decently attractive or super desperate women to hang out with in the hopes they might give you a BJ at some point.
Just fucking check “Casual Encounters” and be on your way. Why must we beat around the bush?
Hi I’m 5”11 black hair, brown eyes, average, Hispanic. Yes i’m married but in a unhappy marrage and so I starting to look for a new girl in my life and I do have one child, my son is 2 years old right know.
The entire profile of some dude, a dude I’d like to think of as the Catch of the Century, on OKCupid. Where do I sign up? Back off everyone else, this one’s mine.
I mean, I guess… if that’s what you’re into. But I’ll pass since, you know, I don’t even know you or anything.
Your Race Affects Whether People Write You Back » OK Cupid Blog
Before you say anything - it’s actually well done and an interesting read.
The OK Cupid staff processed some raw data to find out exactly how users matched across race and subsequently, how users respond to others across races. The results weren’t particularly shocking as I am living it everyday, but still, to see this chart I get a very real physical reaction. A general malaise. In short, Black women are the least desirable women on the site. And overwhelmingly so. I mean look at that sad pink/orange bar.
In the comment’s section of the post, hundreds of faux scholars (idiots) drolled on about how this data doesn’t mean anything, and maybe it’s just CULTURAL differences, maybe more black women are fat. Maybe more black women use bad grammar/text speak. It’s totally not racist to not want to date one race. It’s just a preference!
I wish there were a sound associated with plainface, blank stare blinking - the sound of eyelashes going up and down. Because that’s what you’d hear from me right now. Toothsuck.
I agree that a preference and inclination to your own race is not racist. But the buck stops there. EXCLUDING races is, in fact, fucked up. It’s not racist in the sense that Blacks riding in the back of the bus was institutionally racist, but I mean, come on.
In the article, they also display users’ answers to the question “Would you prefer to date someone of your own race?” Non-whites answered around the 25% yes, 75% no range while white men and women were around 45% yes. To this one man replies:
“The second question was worded as “Would you strongly prefer to date someone of your own skin color/racial background”. I answered that question “No”, because I’d be fine dating white, middle-eastern, latin-american, native-american, and asian women, but I’d simply not be attracted to african-american women. That is NOT racism, however – I work and socially interact with black women, and don’t have any problem with it. Developing an intimate relationship, however, is a very different thing.”
I would date every race except black bitches. BUT I KNOW BLACK LADIES SO I’M TOTALLY NOT A BIGOT. A lot of people think this way. A fucking lot. On the one hand it’s hard to fault people for being products of their environment - that is, finding attractive the people we are TOLD to find attractive. But on the other, I’m not about to give everyone a pass because “that’s just how things are”. My ass, you can kiss it.
It’s hard for me to really explain how it feels to be a part of the group that is overwhelmingly undesired. To be seen as universally unattractive. Of course there are so many factors that led to how this data came to be, geography, age, culture and so on, but let’s not kid ourselves. The data would tell a similar story no matter how you slice it.
The one group that has it worse that us - Indian men. Where my Indian fellas at? Let’s commiserate.
WE GET IT. YOU GUYS ARE TOTALLY WAY INTO NATURE AND STUFF.
Every fucking profile is the same: Picture of dude on mountain wearing a backpack (I am well-traveled and adventurous), picture of dude in a suit at a work function (I am employed and business-minded), picture of dude in a polo shirt and jeans holding some sort of alcoholic beverage (see, I can also have average 20-something fun!).
Ugh, blow me.
Where are the pics of you goofing off? It irritates me to no end that few people post photos of themselves with a natural, candid smile or in an unposed shot. And just sos you know, I have a picture up of myself shotgunning a beer in the woods so, yeah. I’m laying it all out, cards on the table.
This week in “OkCupid Messages I Send That Go Unresponded”…
Maybe this was not a good first message to send? I dunno. I thought it was funny. Of course I still think Billy Madison is hilarious, so…
First, some context. There is a section of the profile that asks you to list the first thing that people notice about you. In that section I wrote something to the degree of “I have no idea. If we ever hang out tell me the first thing you notice about me so I can have something to put here.”
Please note that this kid, who I may have mentioned in passing, has photos of himself in his backyard trying to look hard, posing with a katana. He is dead fucking serious about it too.
WHO’S GONNA SAVE MY SOUL?
Better yet, who’s gonna put a gun right up to my temple and blow my head open?
Message I received today. Please note that this is a completely different person than the wordsmith who messaged me yesterday. Should the wedding be small and intimate or a large production to include all of our extended families?
Message I received yesterday. Should I respond now or right now?
There’s got to be at least a 20-30% bullshit rate there. I mean the trails would be crowded with bodies if this were true. The rivers jam-packed with outdoorsmen. But they ain’t. A good portion of these guys also list Gaming as a hobby so obviously someone’s sitting in his mom’s basement jacking off to Hentai and writing lies about himself. I’d be much more inclined to respond to a guy who lists “being in climate controlled environments” and “attempting to maintain an even skin tone by staying out of the sun as much as possible”. I mean, I feel that. I get that. Sweating, ugh no thank you. DC is muggy enough. Let’s have a fun, well air-conditioned, dehumidified time…. in your mom’s basement.
The snake dude has taken a shine to me. And I don’t want to be a bitch so I responded to his IM with a simple “hi” and he keeps using “lol” and “your” when he means “you are” and “u” for you. And there’s another “lol”. You guys, do you see?!?! Do you see what I have to go through? I know one of you out there has a decent looking friend who secretly likes fat girls COME ONNNN. Send him my way please! If not I’ll have to date the snake guy and everyday that I wake up to his self-described “big tongue” I will curse each and everyone of you for failing me. Then I will go feed the snake a live mouse and cry for 20 mins in the shower thinking about what my life has become.
Now, it is well known in the blogosphere and IRLosphere that me and reading aren’t the best of friends, but I’d like to think that I can sufficiently fool people on that front, what with my adult level language skills and all. With his latest message reading “your on again lol”, I think this dude needs to crack open a few more books.
Why am I so hot and desirable?
I wish there were a feature that showed how many of your inital attempts at contact go ignored.
“You’re at an 85% ignore rate - maybe you should just give up, kid. On this this site and while you’re at it, on life. Kill yourself.”
I was reading some dude’s OK Cupid profile last night and he mentioned that he would “straight up dump a bitch” who didn’t love the Shawshank Redemption. I wondered, do I have any such entertainment dealbreaker? When it comes to music, I think we are all allowed some passes because sometimes garbage moves your soul. A dude would have to be like, singing Linkin Park songs to express his love for me to say no thanks. I mean shit, I like Rockapella so, glass houses, you know.
When it comes to movies, however, I tend to be a little more, um, selective. Let’s call a spade a spade, I’m a fucking snob. Sure I appreciate bad movies on that “are these motherfuckers serious?” level, who doesn’t. But when it comes to “favorites” I’m not going to let just any movie into the club. So, do I have any movie dealbreakers? At first I said sure, duh, Vanilla Sky. But Vanilla Sky is less a relationship dealbreaker and more a life dealbreaker. Boyfriends, friends, family, whatever. Anyone who thinks that movie is “deep” is no longer a part of my life. I will immediately begin singing “Get Out” by Jojo.
So what, then, would be my dealbreaker movie, if any. There are plenty of shit films in this world but which one grates my nerves so bad that I’d give a dude the pink slip? Then it came to me. There is one movie so overrated, so undeserving of any praise or accolades, so “oh give me a fucking break”: The moment a guy comes out of his face with “Oh man, I loved Crash. It was so ‘meaningful’ and moving,” plainface goes into effect, the legs will shut and we’ll have to close up shop. Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
The movie’s heavy handedness is enough for me to give it bitch face, but the fact that it robbed Brokeback Mountain for best picture… don’t even get me started.
People. PEOPLE. We all know you love your children and that they “mean the world” to you and are “the best thing to happen” to you. That should go without saying. Anyone considering a relationship with a person with a child should go into the situation assuming that the child is a big part of your life. But real talk, STOP PUTTING PICS OF YOUR PROGENY IN YOUR PROFILE. It’s just wrong. Sleezey. It’s like a stripper bringing her kid to work. There’s a time and place people. A time and place. You need to realize that people looking at your profile, no matter how much they say they care about “personality”, are imaging having sex with you. I mean it’s DATING site. People that date bone. And then I look at your pics and there’s your fucking kid, and now I feel like a scum bag.
