Lack of harmony
May 8, 2008 at 6:30 pm (interior)
Have you guys paid any attention to the e-harmony dating site commercials?
Since I am slightly shallow and pretty cute, I will say it: those people are kinda homely. Some are plain. None are hot, dazzling, sexy, beautiful or any of those descriptives that cause the mind to water.
I am sure that the lens of love makes a person beautiful, for one sees their goodness. We know that. Hell, when someone works on my nerves, they had better be pleasant on the eyes, so that they have at least one redeeming factor.
But for a site that runs on and on about the prefect match and true love, they surely have forgotten that some of us have eyes.
Please reject me, for if I have to be stuck with some of those unappetizing men, I am glad to be in the “out” group or riding the short bus.
BTW, if you have time, please check on the Bush cartoon show on Comedy Central. Add your voice to the massive echo of laughter across the country at 10:30 EST
mnwhr5 said,
May 8, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Look on the bright side, maybe if the average folk all pair up that’ll leave more beautiful people for you to meet.
academichooker said,
May 8, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Oh Mnwhr! You excite me with your words. But you also jest, for the ugly can see just as well as we pretty can, and some of them have hoop dreams.
In this climate, most men are expecting to get whatever woman they want, as today’s women supposedly “are just sluts” anyway, so ‘reach higher’, seems to be the theme song on their lips.
Thanks for helping me glimpse Utopia for a short while, however.
I only crack on eharmony b/c they have made an art out of rejecting people. I thought there was someone for everyone!!!
Salvagebar said,
May 11, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I just noticed that the people in the commercial do seem to ‘fit’ together, both in their looks and in some other indefinable way. If everyone, men and women, are ‘reaching higher’ and working to get the best deal they can, that’s just a free market at work. Each person has some wits, affability, wealth, beauty, sense of humor, the whole constellation of attributes that create attraction. Homely people will tend to find other homely people, other things being equal.
Maybe it’s just me, but the younger women in those commercials don’t look so bad; I’d feel pretty good to get one of their phone numbers if I was just hanging out some night, looking to meet people. I’d thought about putting a profile on eHarmony. This is about the level of woman I’m targeting, until some revolution in my financial situation or personal insight comes to pass.
The business of rejecting people does piss me off, though. As I looked into stories about the site, a weak fundamentalist Christian agenda emerged; this is most clear in their rejection of same-sex matches. These people are not going to get my money.
Aneris said,
May 12, 2008 at 9:06 pm
SlvBr: Yes, they fit.
I wondered why there was not more diversity in the participants-isn’t it up to the person not just a computer program, over what fits? The beautiful, the sexy, the hot, the goth, the nerd and geek, the superfreaks, whomever…where is there harmonious love story? A dating site is diff than a hookup spot, therefore, certain things should be common in personality, no matter if one wars lipgloss or black liptick.
The chicks are not that bad, but you know, they are not that good. Along with the men. Which is fine but funny how ppl are rejected due to an algorithm.
I seek to demystify the whole thing. b/c it takes all kinds to make a world. Who knows what woman would dig you, just as you are? I guess match (dot) com is more open.
(on a sidenote, I see a number of nice homely folk with very attractive mates. Note the word nice.)
I always felt that it was too stepford-y when it 1st came out, so OI am not surprised at the turn of events. accck, ick.
But I am a spoiled bitch, so don’t mind me.
tongue in cheek,
BTW, I did finally see a cutie in one of their commercials but it was on the history channel, international. I guess a man must have 200
+ channels to catch a glimpse.