Online Dating Replacement: Tragic "Please Date Me" Clothing Line

Most attempts at "online dating" fail not because of some outwardly obvious personal defect on your part, but because it is an inherent failure on the part of online dating as an institution not to dress you in regrettable cotton t-shirts that say, with just a logo and a few carefully chosen words, that you are so very …

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Mobile Dating App Brings Out the Crazy in Dudes

Mobile dating app Tinder links up to your Facebook and connects you based on location and mutual attraction; the developers don't advertise it as such, but the service is essentially Grindr for straight people. "How far will a guy go when he thinks he's getting laid?" asks the 23-year-old behind "How to Lose a Guy in One …

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On Looking Like Every Dude’s OK Cupid Date But Not Being It

Like many single women, I have a Saturday brunch ritual with friends. When friends aren't available—or sometimes when they are, but I feel cranky or sub-human or haven't washed my hair for so long it could be the inciting incident for Contagion 2—I take myself out with my computer or a book to inhale an embarassingly…

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eBromance Would Take the Guesswork Out of Dude Friendship

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a bro just wants another bro to hang out with. To eat gourmet cheese together under a canopy bed, and talk about everything—or nothing!—and be comfortable with each other, and themselves, and their bodies, and the world. To this end, College Humor hit the nail on the head…

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Horse_ebooks OKC Account Exposes Gaping, Soulless Chasm of Creepy…

As many of us know, the average female dating website user will get a handful of messages from that pick-up-line-laden bullheaded dude who won't seem to take no for an answer. But the full range of these guys come out of the woodwork in this hilarious/creepy new sociological experiment: meet OKc_ebooks, the brainchild…

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Angry Texts From the 'Rape Van' Pick-Up Artist

After we told you all about prominent pick-up artist Jeff "Jeffy" Allen and his prized "rape van," we received dozens of comments and emails from women who were also initially intrigued by Allen's colorful vehicle and offbeat sense of humor. All of them eventually realized that Allen wasn't a slightly cocky yet…

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Prominent Pick-Up Artist Drives a 'Rape Van' and Harasses Women on…

Jeff "Jeffy" Allen is a big league pick-up artist instructor who has published multiple books and DVDs on the craft of treating women like shiny gold coins in a video game. He's also the owner of San Francisco's well-known "Freedom Van," which he calls his "rape van," and a pathetically avid OkCupid troll. Please stay far,…

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OkCupid Finally Comes Up With Worst Idea Ever

We mocked the New York Times for proclaiming that courtship is dead because straight millennial men are only interested in hooking up. (And eating mac and cheese. Mmm.) But today, thanks to OKCupid's new standalone "Crazy Blind Date" app, we feel a little differently. Maybe love really is obsolete?

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