Online Dating is Like a Mystery Pot Luck Dinner

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 13:18
Submitted by mssaigon73

Being a thirty something, single mom of an autistic kid who works full time and goes to school part time, I decided to try online dating.

I have been on and off online dating sites for 8 years or so. Since I work in a hospital, meeting people in the work place is not easy (more women than men or the men are already taken). Dating a patient is a no-no(yet a fantasy I have).

I decided to try online dating to get a wider range of options. I would have to say online dating is like mystery pot luck dinner - some meals are flavorful and delicious while others leave a bad taste in your mouth. While I have met some nice men on dating sites, there are also the liars, the fake profiles, and losers on the same sites. I saw this profile and had to share this with my Dodson and Ross people:

"This is the list of things I dont like to date/commit to. You can save yourself some time by reading it to see if your this type.

Women that have FAKE PICTURES, hypersensitive, unforgiving, poor hygiene, Italian women with racist family's, Loud women, women that act like they wear the pants, overly spiteful or selfish, women in law enforcement, no personality of your own, very bossy, currently bisexual, current drug addicts, gold digger/materialistic, blue eyes or blond haired women, women with std's, women with masters degrees, very tall women, very skinny or boney women, very small hips, Low sex drive, Sex> If you can’t ride me or have a vaginal orgasm during intercourse I wont be interested in sex/you. And if you will not wait for a relationship you will not get one.

PS I have been waiting for sex for 5 months, If you dont want sex dont email me. I think the magic recipe to a relationship is friendship, physical attraction, and forgiveness. Everyone will fall from your graces at some point so you have to learn how to forgive under most circumstances and i know its not easy but you have to treat each person like a individual. I guess finding the right combination is easier said then done. I see the same people here from last year.

I think sex is very important to me and if we dont work out in the bedroom it wont work out for me because I will look elsewhere. If you usually dont get called back after you have sex with someone or you cant hold onto a man it may not be a good idea for us to get together. I like sex and If we cant have it at least 3 times a week you may not have enough time for me. If that doesn't come natural for you and you think i just want sex from you it would be a good idea for you to find someone else with a lower sex drive. I'm in 5th gear not first. PS hygiene is also very important to me...

I don't date women for there income or what they own and if your interested in how much money I make your very far from my type. I have never gotten along with materialistic women at all and dont like there personality's.

If your not interested in a long term relationship I would appreciate it if you were up front so i can keep looking. I'm open to date and making a real friends (not bed buddies) until someone I want to commit to ...and is ready to commit to me under the right circumstances comes along. I would like to think everyone i have dated is special but until you stick around for a while I will talk to other people.

I dont expect or want a perfect person I just have my own preferences and if i didn't think you were attractive I wouldn't respond to your emails."

As I read this profile, all I could think about was, “what an arrogant ass!!!” Men like him are why I stay single. He needs to stop watching porn and thinking women should only have vaginal orgasms. I will admit to the occasional vaginal orgasm, but they are very rare. He claims he has a high sex drive and if a woman doesn’t want to have sex at least three times a week…..blah blah.

From my experience guys like him are self absorbed and don’t give a damn about their partner when it comes to sex. “Sex> If you can’t ride me or have a vaginal orgasm during intercourse I wont be interested in sex/you.” That comment just infuriates me. I am sorry, but size isn’t everything, and most women orgasm via the clitoris. Where are the men who are secure in themselves and their sexuality? The man that doesn’t need to boast of how “high their sex drive is”? A man who is not intimidated by a woman’s intelligence or her sexuality? He has a long laundry list of his likes and dislikes in women. Yet what does he have to offer a woman, besides arrogance and poor grammar?

Is this guy your “average Joe” or just an ass? Oh sure in an ideal world we want to meet someone who is our mental, physical, and emotional equal. Match.com’s commercials states 1 in every 5 relationships are started with online dating. How many people do you have to go through to find that “one true love” we've been brainwashed to believe is out there since childhood?

I wonder what gender myths are being portrayed here. Are men supposed to be the “bread winners” in the relationship, macho, dominant with a high sex drive? While women are supposed to be the submissive, “suzy homemaker”, lady in the streets yet freak in the sheets?

Everyone on these dating sites has a check list of what they want in a mate, yet I question what they have to offer others? Not once in this guys profile did he state good qualities about himself unless you count “high sex drive” as one of them. His focus was on a woman’s ability to satisfy his sexual needs, yet is he capable of satisfying a woman’s sexual needs?
Online dating can be a joke.

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Posted by mistake

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 14:32

Double posted instead of reposted edited version.

Societies norms

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 14:36

This guy is clearly an idiot :) But much of societies  social norms shine through in his profile.  If we have a penis we are coached to be self absorbed by our own desires to the point that we take very little  sexual pleasure in someone elses desire for us. so all the focus and social pressure is on womens appearance. Where is the porn that lets you fantasize about being desired. Exept for ishotmyself.com, nowhere really.  
I know some great guys who if I was mostly androsexual I'd be hot for and I'd position myself where I'd have the best chance of meeting the good ones. In my anocdotal experience carpenters and builders who do sensitive restoration eco build work are totally the best :) on the art side of building you get a great guy who's intelligent, fit, and is good with his hands  and live in a beautiful house /boat / converted treehosue. If I was a woman I would so be a carpenter/joiner architect.  Bit of a ramble sorry :)
By the way I'm not an eco restoration builder :) ha ha 

I could write a book!

Marias Chaos's picture
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 14:31

I have been dating online for almost 2 years. I have met in person over 135
men, spoken to hundreds more... It's interesting to say the least. I have
learned a lot about myself, what I like and don't like. It has been fun but
time consuming. You don't know if th the energy you get from messaging or phone
conversations will transfer to real in person chemistry.
Best to go in without high or low expectations. I don’t meet without a talk.
I talk without a picture. I want someone who is not hiding anything.... like
his marriage! The worst part is that finding a man in tune with female
sexuality is like going to an auction for the Hope Diamond.

Though I have found a lot more joy from a new site I recently tried. 'Okcupid'
is free and has great matching questions and their matching algorithms have
done really well at putting my in touch with like minded people. At the very least the questions help you define yourself and have also helped me decide whats actually important to me in a mate. It's  not as buys as other sites, but I am looking for quality vs quantity.

JakeE

Marias Chaos's picture
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 14:32

I agree...carpenters are good with their hands! :)

Can you imagine

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 15:16

 being an androsexual architect developer hiring lots of fit guys to work with :)

what one has to offer

Marisa Black's picture
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 15:27

Excellent point about the profile writer talking about his requirements and dealbreakers but giving little or no information about why someone should want to message him in the first place.

I think the thing that cracked me up the most is that he does NOT want a woman with a master's degree. I'm wondering if that's because she might try to correct his many spelling and grammar issues, and that might make him feel inferior, instead of perhaps learning something and improving his written communication.

Good luck with continued online dating attempts! Several of my friends who have run the gamut of online dating have mentioned that meetup groups, organized online but taking place in realtime, have been their best bet for finding people to date via the internet. It's based around activities they like, there is a group dynamic, it gets them out doing things, and they can see potential dating partners interacting with other people.

yes!

Marias Chaos's picture
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 15:32

Meetups are sooo great! Good point!

Wow, what a jerk.

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 15:32

I used to frequent a blog that posted really horrible dating profiles that the author was sent, called "Why Women Hate Men". Some were far worse than that, but it's worth checking out for a laugh, even if it hasn't been updated in over a year.

I found his profile and had

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 15:34

I found his profile and had to post his pic:

That mug just screams, "Ride

Marisa Black's picture
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 15:37

That mug just screams, "Ride me for a vaginal orgasm!"

Butt Ugly and Poor Grammar

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 16:42
deera (not verified)

He's not fuckable based on his ugly face and the fact that he doesn't know when to use "their" and "there" and also "your" and "you're."  Maybe he needs to go to school and get a masters degree.  Bad grammar is a deal-breaker for me.

I started this year off with

LilithLand's picture
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 19:34

I started this year off with the idea of finding someone to date. Well, partly because of people like this guy, I lost interest rather quick. I know that there are some great guys out there but finding them is like looking for a needle in a haystack. It is a very time consuming process. And I'm tired. 
This guy is an absolute idiot. I was pretty pissed off by the comment about "ridiing" and "vaginal orgasms". Particularily, because most women can't have them. What an ass. I can't help but wonder about the type of woman who would date this jerk. She probably would end up faking all her orgasms. I suspect whatever self-regard she possessed would be totally obliterated by this jackass. 

Yesterday's news

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 20:10
soapberryusa (not verified)

Dating sites are yesterday's news.  Too many pitfalls.  They are an illusion.  A promise of a product that exists only in your mind.  That is what those entrepreneurs depend on.  As they say- "love is just a click away." It is a sucker's game and a dangerous one at that. They are selling you a dream package with the brass ring just a reach away and they have gotten rich off of those who believe it.  It is best to meet people in person like anywhere that is real. If it is too good to be true....

I had a problem with bad grammar back in high school

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 22:43

and I married a dyslexic who has a command of neither. But what my hubby has what this idiot does not is a great sense of humor, a willingness for the combo orgasm, and a personality that allows him enough friends of both sexes that if he ever needed to write an online dating profile, that someone would help him with it. This guy is an ass who is probably best friends with his dominate hand. I've decided to craft a bitchy response.

Dear Mr. Swarmy Spitlips,
Unless your dick vibrates in 5 speeds and comes with a clit attachment, okay, well even if you do have the most fabulous cybernetic vibrating hall of fame dick, I will refrain from jumping on and riding. You sir should lower the educational requirements of the women you wish to date because I'm pretty sure the differences between your/you're and there/their/they're are taught in grade school. Maybe you should limit your women to a seventh grade education.
In fact I usually get called back after sex, sometimes I even get marriage proposals and gifts, however the quality of my partner has a great deal to do with my "performance". You failed to mention whether or not women call YOU back after sex.
If you only want sex 3 times a week, I'm afraid I would have to find another man who can give me sex 3 times daily. Of course since I would only date you if I was in a coma (or got turned into a zombie-since you have no brain for me to eat), shit, I wouldn't date you then either.
Regards,
Heylin
P.S. -Your note makes me want to go to the adult toy store, you might want to check out the blowup dolls.

The date

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 23:48
soapberryusa (not verified)

Finding someone to date is not about orgasms. The dodson and ross website is obsessed with the mechanics of sex at full bore.   No subtlety - no feel. An un-smooth ride, a rage of frustration, a road leading into an existing void.

That might be true

Thu, 06/23/2011 - 01:12

but...the male featured focused on finding a woman who is able to have vaginal orgasms which is kind of a rarity. And since my friendships are platonic, my dating is not and part of sex is having orgasms. I'm also not sure about what kind of orgasms you are having, but mine tend to relieve frustration and we're all heading towards the void known as death. As for this website being obsessed with the mechanics of orgasm, thank God someone cares about female orgasm.

@ Soapberryusa, I wrote this

mssaigon73's picture
Thu, 06/23/2011 - 01:15

@ Soapberryusa, I wrote this because this guy is an ignorant ass. In what part of his profile rant was there "subtlety" or mention of emotions ???? All he did was mention his high sex drive and a laundry list of what he expects in his woman.None of which are realistic. Dodson and Ross is a sex information website.That is what these ladies and gentleman who write for the site do best.

Don't want to give this loser any more attention

Thu, 06/23/2011 - 01:38

But that kissy face photo really grosses me out and some of the guys I'm crushing on are on the rough looking/ugly side! Of course reading his profile thingee made him unattractive anyway but all the saliva practically dripping from his mouth, gross!

Not worthy

Thu, 06/23/2011 - 04:20
soapberryusa (not verified)

I know he was an ignorant ass.  Actually his rant was off the charts and not worth even a mention.  He is a troglodyte.  A testosteroid. Nothing he said made any sense.  He was chattering at a low level.  I know what Dodson and Ross do and why they do it.  I was just shuckin' and Jivin'. 

orgasms

Thu, 06/23/2011 - 04:27
soapberryusa (not verified)

What difference does it make what kind of orgasms a woman may have as long as she is happy with whatever it is.  I like Casanova's philosophy of sexuality which is - seventy-five percent of the pleasure of sex for him was satisfying the woman.  Of course there is no way a woman would understand that since she is on the wrong end of that philosophy.

Weary

Thu, 06/23/2011 - 04:38
soapberryusa (not verified)

"Oh she may be weary
them young girls they do get wearied
wearing that same old shabby dress
but when she gets weary
you try a little tenderness"
                               Otis Redding

P.S.

Thu, 06/23/2011 - 04:45
soapberryusa (not verified)

Sorry about you being a single mom with an autistic child and working and going to school.  I know that has to be very difficult.  Online dating would make it really difficult. Kudos to you for what that is worth.

you say no way?

Marisa Black's picture
Thu, 06/23/2011 - 04:52

@soapberryusa:  "There is no way woman would understand that since she is on the wrong end of the philosophy."

??  

I relate quite a bit to what you mentioned, that a significant portion of pleasure in sex is satisfying the woman. As a woman who loves to have sex with women, I am not excluded from understanding that philospphy.

;-)

Online Dating is for...

Thu, 06/23/2011 - 06:48
Ginger (not verified)

A good friend of mine once told me that online dating is for efficient women and lazy men.  It's so true.  
After a couple of years of online dating I'm done.  The stalker I'm sure was the breaking point; after numerous phone calls to the police, a suicide threat, and having to avoid places because I knew he'd be there waiting for me, I decided it's just too much of a toss-up.  I'll wait to find some fabulous guy at one of the weird ass places I hang out in.  

The type of orgasm isn't important

Thu, 06/23/2011 - 11:45

The fact that some dude I may encounter on an online dating might start demanding what kind I have before we've even met is offensive.
BTW, some of us women enjoy pleasing our men too. Hubby really likes it when I cook for him which I understand is not sexually pleasing but if he was given the choice between a really good sandwich and a really good blowjob, he'd probably pick pleasing me during sex with the sandwich and a cool drink.

Seinfeld

Thu, 06/23/2011 - 13:23
soapberryusa (not verified)

That sounds like a skit that George did on Seinfeld.

Good one

Thu, 06/23/2011 - 13:38
soapberryusa (not verified)

Now that is a cool idea! Never thought about it from that angle.

I like online dating

Marias Chaos's picture
Sat, 06/25/2011 - 02:33

As a busy mom of 4 who doesn't do the bar thing I am happy to go online. You meet crazy people everywhere. Better than not at all... Sure it's not for everyone, but what is? For those judging it... whatever...judge away...as you usually do...

Bacteria

Sat, 06/25/2011 - 02:55
soapberryusa (not verified)

The most critical thing needed for dating strange people is a bacteria pathogen meter.  It would be somewhat like a Geiger counter.  You could point it at the person you may hook up with and check for anything untoward physically.  You could tell a lot about a person that way.  You could be the judge on how much bacteria that you were willing to tolerate.  A disease meter might be a little more difficult.  There are minefields of diseases.  Condoms and dental dams or plastic wrap will not do. The entire issue is so distressing. Pristine sexual encounters should be the gold standard. Saran wrap is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of for oral sex

because

Marias Chaos's picture
Sat, 06/25/2011 - 03:16

dating =fucking
soapy?
Glad you care to point out some health concerns!
sorry your name and that post are too funny

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