Tag: dating
Check your hot female privilege
Forget white privilege. Or male privilege. Or white male privilege, which presumably trumps them all (no pun intended), including black male privilege and white female privilege. We need to talk …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part III: Special Valentine’s Edition
By popular demand – and by popular demand I mean a few friends on Facebook who asked for it – here, for you Valentine’s Day gratification, enjoy this third selection …
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“You’ve matched with STD!”, or the moral panic over dating apps
Initially I wasn’t going to comment on this story, but this morning I saw it made it onto Drudge (Dating apps rampant promiscuity; Sex with 10 people a day…), and …
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Feminism – helping ugly chicks get laid since 1970
Girl meets boy online. Boy says no. Girl’s sister uses social media to shame the boy. Boy gets called a “creepâ€, an “asshole†and an “actual piece of shitâ€. The …
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LinkedIn – better than Tinder?
I’ve always considered LinkedIn to be Facebook for boring people. I signed up to it yonks ago, because I guess I was a professional too (if you consider a political …
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How To Lose Friends While Influencing People
Two stories, linked to next to each other on Drudge, recently caught my attention. The titles pretty much say it all: “He Likes Trump. She Doesn’t. Can This Marriage Be …
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Which one of the 33 genders are you?
There are two sides to every story, three persons in the Holy Trinity, and four seasons, elements, and points of the compass – but according to the latest sex survey, …
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Looking for love in all the wrong place, the Convention Edition
Forget the boring party Conventions with their overhyped and hyperventilated rhetoric and the ugly divisions between the Trump and Never Trump forces on the one hand and between Hillary and …
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Shooting range vs yoga
“Like the outdoors or going to the shooting range? So do a majority of conservatives interested in love. Liberals looking for love prefer museums, yoga and crying.†This is one …
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Looking for love in all the wrong places
Chalk up another great victory for equality. As a result of a settlement flowing from a class action brought by two gay plaintiffs, a number of Christian internet dating sites …
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This blogger signed onto Tinder. What happened next will bring tears to your eyes.
Welcome to clickbait, suckers. No, not really. But you all seem to have a voyeuristic fascination with online dating apps, don’t you? People, particularly women, always keep asking me about …
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On first dates and communist restaurants
A first date tonight. She likes Vietnamese. Not too many options in Brisbane inner north. Her: “What’s that Vietnamese place that was named after some dictator that attracted all the …
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Inter-political dating 101
Antony and Cleopatra. Hitler and Stalin. James Carville and Mary Matalin. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. OK, maybe they’re not the best examples. Maybe that’s just it – there aren’t …
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Sextortion 1: Don’t be a freakin’ moron
As an online dating aficionado, tragic or veteran (take your pick), I simply can’t go past articles like “Sextortion 101: How Tinder introduced me to your wife”. In fact the …
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