The Secret to Online Dating Success

The Secret to Online Dating Success

Online dating can be an annoying, frustrating experience at times. For something that’s frequently hailed as the dating salvation for the introverted, the socially awkward, and the shy, sometimes all that happens is… nothing. Your winks and messages get sent out and all you get for your trouble is deafening silence. You see people checking out your profile [...]

OKCupid Creepers and Race Fetishism

"Hey, I ain't no racist. I just need someone to love me long time, ya dig?"

It seems like it’s been a bumper year for calling out OKCupid creepers via Tumblr – Nice GuysofOKC, OKCupidGoldMine… even FedorasOfOKCupid1 which helped turn another fashion choice into a way that nature tells us “Do Not Touch“. Online dating tends to mean that people often let their filters down – the anonymity combined with the impersonalization [...]

Don’t Get Catfished

MUA HA HA HA!

If you’re like me (and I know I am), you may not pay all that much attention to sports. However, lately it seems almost impossible to ignore the story of Manti Te’o, the Notre Dame linebacker and Heisman trophy candidate who was propelled to infamy when the dramatic, too-good-to-be-true story of the death of his [...]

Fake A Gamer

Can you feel our withering contempt for you?

I’ve gone on before about my feelings on the supposed plague of faux geek girls before, but occassionally something comes along that requires that I revisit the topic. And occasionally I turn out to be wrong. But not in the way that you would think. Y’see, the idea of “fake geek girls” as exemplified by the [...]

Ask Dr. NerdLove: Love, Race and Dating

So both of today’s questions involve interracial dating, a subject that couldn’t POSSIBLY go wrong if and when I accidentally say something stupid! Now this is going to be a loaded topic, so I’m warning folks in advance: be cool in the comments. Or else. And if I happen to shove my foot in my [...]