naming blogs is easy: online dating is a diabolic machine →
Culturally I see little value in stories like this, ones that have zero self-examination and that pose as Real Talk while painting the writer as an innocent lamb who just has standards, what’s wrong with having standards when you’re trying to be a woman getting a paycheck froma site for dudesfind love? Even though true love requires things like self-examination and a willingness to deal with one’s faults and also maybe the suspension of indulging one’s worst impulses. I mean of course there’s economic value—521,000 pageviews and climbing as of this writing, way to go everyone!—but that virality just further corrodes the discourse on all sides. This is the sort of writing I am talking about when I say that most “relationship” writing should go die in a fire, or at least marinate in self-reflection for more than five seconds.
Maura nails it (as always.)
