If you really REALLY want a date and you KNOW you're a dog...

[anghara]

enter e-Cyrano.

Um, the obvious question - if someone bites on the strength of your tweaked profile, and you told them you're a six-foot-five Pierce Brosnan lookalike astronaut with a PhD in Shakespearean literature which you did just for fun... aren't they going to be just a TAD disappointed to find out that you're five foot four, work as an assistant accountant in a podunk town, and are an ex-hippie who was truly a part of the sixties in that you can't actually REMEMBER them at all...?

Funny this should come now, right on the heels of something else I've read recently - about a guy who had a "date" set up with someone who, as he puts it, told him that she was "A well-built five foot eight and had long hair in a ponytail" - only to find a dumpy pock-skinned girl with a little knob of hair pretending to be a ponytail riding on the top of her head waiting at the appointed place at the appointed time. He was supposed to be driving by there and picking her up - he said, in that account, "...I kept driving."

He didn't say what he told HER about HIMSELF. And whether he mentioned that he was such a superficial jerk.

Maybe he used a profile groomer...

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[guinwhyte.livejournal.com]

Granted, some of the profiles could stand some help (I've detailed this upon occasion in my own journal). Sometimes I sit there reading and wonder, "Do you really think you're going to attract a woman having said that?" I suppose that's an expression of who they are, though, and if they're going to put it out there, I have a right to avoid them because of it. The spelling/grammar errors, as well as the inability to use punctuation, drive me a little batty, but That's so rampant in those ads that I tend to let at least some of that slide (and repress the urge to scream, "you don't make a plural of that word with an apostrophe!").

I think a lot of people would be able to note the immediate difference between what was in the profile and what someone says in e-mail, on the phone or in person. The "groomed" version may "hook" someone, but you'll probably lose them during the "reeling them in" part if you can't live up to that profile. I haven't seen any profiles locally that look "groomed" (more often I'm kinda wishing they were, just a bit :P), but I'm sure some people are willing to shell out the bucks for it.

[alexjay.livejournal.com]

It may surprise you to know I am on the side of the "superficial jerk" in this one.

Not because I believe that shallowness is an attribute to be much desired, but rather because I believe that honesty is.

A little shading of the truth is fine--though it isn't for me, I fully understand the need for women or men in these insecure times to perform a little light airbrushing of reality.

But while shading the truth can be thought nigh on acceptable, erasing the truth before using magic markers to draw and color in an entirely different picture than the one reality presents can not. Not in my world, anyway.

[alexjay.livejournal.com]

Oh--and to underline my own disdain for even a "groomed" profile, you may look hereabouts.