<![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i> - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i> - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Jezebabe: Wow, way to elevate the discourse.

emmaisapunk

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> i like her now. because her nose makes me feel better about mine

ilovejohnnythunders

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @greenglass:
Yes, thank you. 22 year old virgin here (female). Nice to know I would creep people out if I, ya know, talked about my virginity with anyone. But I don't. Because it's no one's business but mine.

For the record, I agree with the commenters that said people shouldn't be congratulated for being virgins. It isn't something to be proud of, really. For me, it's just something that I am. I know it won't stay that way and I'll get laid eventually, but as of right now I'm content with it.

Besides, I have a vibrator, so it's not like I'm totally missing out ;)

eddiepete

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @AlmostZooey: Yo, my doctor was all about the congratulations too. I was pissed. "Do you congratulate your male patients too? So are you going to thin your lips and shake your head when I finally DO get some lovin'?"

Also...not interested in "you're a virgin, congrats" unless there's free champagne. Sexist, self-righteous shit goes down a lot easier when chased with bubbly.

greenglass

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @LoveNoelG: How old do you have to be to be a certifiably-disgusting adult virgin? You know what makes me recoil...young people making stupid choices they haven't thought about.

I think older virgins are probably much better attuned with what they want and what they know will be good for them. I personally prefer to learn from the mistakes of others rather than my own :)

P.S. I'm not a virgin (GOD I hate the term and all the vocab that goes with it...ahem, I digress) but I was for a long, long time. Long enough to horrify you, I suspect.

...but yeah, "way to make the best choice for you" is way better than "YAY YOU'RE A VIRGIN!"

greenglass

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> i, too, have a virgin roommate, who's half embarrassed and half "proud" or whatevs. bitch is almost 21 and has not so much as SEEN a dude's junk in 4 years! we were discussing scrotum and she was like "eww! it's all wrinkly! what's wrong with him?" and i laughed so hard i cried. she's also really pleased she has never snorted anything. no cock AND no coke...no wonder she prefers her suburban home to manhattan.

rwr

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> I'm really curious about how she actually advertised her services before she got this show. All that I can picture is a full color ad in an airplane magazine. How would you recruit women to date men with a high net worth yet be clear you don't want gold diggers? It is mind boggling.

Cranimal

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @hamburgerhotdog: I don't think it's a hard and fast rule with her. She had a completely gorgeous girl with lovely curly hair and she didn't say boo about her hair. As a curly myself, I was initially offended, but I have to admit the first woman was not taking care of her curls very well. They were very...crispy and processed.

kikichanelconspiracy

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> Just an aside about oxytocin and bonding, oxytocin is a portion of what determines bonding, be it in humans or other animals. However just like everything else, everyone has a different response to it (i.e. some make take a bigger 'dose' to get the same results). It is used in animal medicine frequently, and one of its uses is for grafting an orphan baby onto another mom. Oxytocin helps this bond form. Oxytocin release is caused by uterine stimulation (i.e. birth and sex). So yeah, it is actually possible for sex to cause you to bond via oxytocin, Patti is right, however best bet is because we are capable of higher thought, if you don't like the guy, no amount of oxytocin is going to make you like him.

WMjen

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @hamburgerhotdog: i think these episodes were shot two or three years ago.

mulletini

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @sartastic: I am awed at your numbers. Am I just lazy or something?

@jonathan: Thanks. 'Cause I was starting to think that you all were just fumble-fingered/terribly uncoordinated. Or something.

Curly hair isn't run-your-fingers-through-able?

Has Patti, like, never been to New York? I thought she was from New Jersey.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @jonathan: <3 - Really pisses me and my nappy head of hair off her saying that. My guys love my curls and freak when I get a blow-out.

Alara

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine: Except he was a douche.

Moimeme

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> Have we ever actually SEEN this "boyfriend of 3 years" she's always talking about? Or is he just a figment of her imagination?

kavitabk

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @southbeachriot: that aunt sounds awesome!

pinkhearts

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> i cant watch this bc i dont have sound on this computer, but i always thought that the bitch gives good advice. she reminds me of my second wave feminist aunt who wears 4-in heels everywhere she goes and told me to cure my bacterial vaginosis by shaving my pussy. that is, not really a feminist at all, but she calls em as she sees em and she's got a girl's best interest at heart.

southbeachriot

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @jezebellian: Use match.com or some such. You will be a better match maker than some stranger. Be very specific about what you want, find somebody who matches those criteria and contact him. Feel free to ignore the 10 million creepy guys who will contact you. I did that, found my adorable hiking physics professor, and we're getting married in June :)

lippybug

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> wow, that screen grab screams drag queen!

dcdulce

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> Tyra's wig looked so shiny here. So did Patti's. It's like Chrissie and Velvet hair.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> Whoa, whoa, now she's a racist, elitest SCIENTIST? fascinating turn of events. Maybe she can start pheremoning her hookers up before heading them off to oxytocin-bond with their new millionaire guy friends down at the pier.

the.bleach

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> Her advice is dead on. I am marrying my best friend this summer. I agree, though, that this is totally common sense.

lewbers

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @hamburgerhotdog: I'm with you on this. Curly rocks. She was just saying her clients liked straight, is all. I said it before, I'll say it again: I may not agree, but the girl knows how to put food on her table.

Tara Incognita

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> what? common sense? go figure

no.no.notorious

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @hamburgerhotdog: Dude, we're just pointing it out - it's not a big deal. It is funny, to me at least, like both funny-ha-ha and funny-peculiar. She does know what her clients want, and she's really sharp and savvy. I'm not holding that against her.

mightymouth

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @katastic: Well obviously the dudes Patti deals with don't. Grrrrr. I've got curly hair, too. But unlike the desperate women on MM, I would never straight-iron it just to trick a man into finding me attractive.

SarahMC

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @BiscuitDoughJones: Well put!

moonagirl

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> Is everyone still hung up on the curly hair thing? She only said it once and because she was trying to find a girl who looked like what some dumb millionaire requested, plus LA is the land of flat irons and extension and everyone looking the same.

GEEZ.

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @leMaldeTete: But of course! What's an intervention without cake? With sprinkles, no less!

Also, she makes the curlies straighten because she says that the mens like hair they can run their fingers through. Heaven forfend they should get their fingers tangled up in the curlies. Bleah! Curly and proud, my friends!

mightymouth

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @katastic: I think she actually takes a lot of pleasure in taking money from dudes who are trying to just get laid. There was one episode where a dude kept asking when he got to have sex and she told him off.

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @katastic:

Word!

mllej

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @jonathan: The day some man permastraightens my hair is the day I kill that man. Dudes dig curly hair.

katastic

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @hamburgerhotdog: EWWW I would never EVER marry a man who clssified women as "sluts" or "future mother of your children". Either/ or? Um, neither /nor. Get your penis away from me, scumbags.

katastic

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @leMaldeTete: She did on the last clip on jezebel. She says men want soft silky hair they can run their fingers through. Maybe that's somewhat true, but curly hair still drives me crazy.

jonathan

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Jezebabe: the consensus is that we find better things to comment on than saying some woman looks like a man.

ThaKadinskyPapers

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @SarahMC: Yeah. I guess I just disagree with all the premises of the show, all the way from "matchmaking which bases itself upon changing people is bad" to "douchebags are douchey" to "hot chicks for rich dudes!"

Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @AthertonMerriweather: Well, if you're really looking for THE ONE then it's smart advice.

Yeah, there's the occasional love story where you met and you screwed and you lived happily ever after but let's face it - most dudes aren't that enlightened. It's jump 'em, pump 'em and dump 'em. If they're paying money they'll feel even more "entitled" to sex. So to nix that from the get go is very smart for her - you want to meet the kind of girl you're gonna marry adn the future mother of your children? Then don't treat her like a slut. These dudes are often lacking serious gaps in social skills.

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> I think the thing with her and the no sex rule is that she doesn't want her business to get a reputation as an escort service.

AthertonMerriweather

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @redfem: Also to add my roommate is a virgin and she is so fucking smug about it. Everytime someone brings up the topic of sex she's like "Well I'm a virgin and I don't do those nasty things." Cunt please. She wishes she could get lose like the rest of us.

brooklynchi

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @jonathan: She makes the curlies straighten?! That's not cool.

@mightymouth: Ooh! Will there be cake?

leMaldeTete

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine: I'd have wanted to change him too. I don't think there's anything wrong with telling a man, "You're an asshat with unbelievable standards and no people skills."

SarahMC

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Jezebabe: Really? Nobody else thinks she looks weird? Is there a consensus on this that I don't know about?

It's not about her looks. That's the point. Calling a woman out for looking like something outside your vision of female beauty ain't cool, is all.

Tara Incognita

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Jezebabe: What do YOU look like? Cookie-cutter blonde with fake tits? Does it matter? She looks like a normal yenta-type to me.

@Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine: I second that.

sartastic

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> I did think it was both mean and funny when Patti chastised this woman on the Tyra show who saw herself as a "cougar," Patti basically telling her that she's not hot enough to bag the 25-yr old boytoys that she was after.

beatrice3000

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @MakeMeSmile: How much can she really lecture these guys, though? They think that being rich and successful means they can specify that they want a woman who's hot and young. She runs a matchmaking service that proves them right by taking their money and finding them women who are hot and young. She can lecture them all she wants about how the hot young thing might not like them or stick around, but the underlying point is that having money raises their market value and can get them the kinds of women they want.

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @redfem: I'm clapping my hands right now! Yea u fuck those 8 guys and I hope u fuck more!

brooklynchi

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Jezebabe: The consensus is, we don't trash women for their looks. Even though she does.

Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @katastic: [tingilinde.typepad.com]

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @ThaKadinskyPapers: I know, it's like, where does this woman get her talking points, some crappy iVillage articles? Has this woman never HAD sex? Or is she just a stage 5 clinger who thinks everybody's like her? I've slept with guys and could barely stay "bonded" to them for a week, let alone 3 years. This lady's talking out of her ass.

BiscuitDoughJones

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @SarahMC: There were a couple cases, I thought, where she was trying to radically change the people involved. Especially the one guy, who owned Geisha House and slept around a lot, and wanted women in the 18-21 range (and was like 35 himself). Although, I guess, what was she supposed to do? I wanted to punch him in the face.

Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @jezebellian: every real relationship I ever had, met the guy online. All really sweet, smart, good at what they do men.

katastic

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> This show has also convinced me that California must be the only place on earth where those cotton/jersey babydoll tops with be-dazzly jewels and halter tops are still considered attractive. Even sorority girls have moved on.

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> I've only seen clips of her on Jezebel. Don't agree with everything but generally I think she gives pretty good advice.

I hate that she makes curly girls straighten their hair though.

jonathan

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @ThaKadinskyPapers: 2 to 3 years? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
HA.

katastic

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @moonagirl: I don't see a point in patting anybody on the back for being a virgin. The same as I don't see a point in shaming anybody who's not. You're gonna get royally screwed over at some point, which can happen with or without sex, and experience is never a bad thing in terms of helping you navigate through the scary world of dating. I feel like the more you know, the better off you'll be. Can you imagine dating a guy for, like, a year only to find out once you finally did it that you two had ZERO sexual chemistry? That's be hell. Shit, I was royally pissed about dating a guy for two months only to find out he was impotent. Thank for wasting my time, dude!

BiscuitDoughJones

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @tailfeather: I wish you could have watched this with me the other night, I was totes imagining us picking apart the millionaires on the boat during the cattle call, er, I mean, 'the cocktail party'.

ThaKadinskyPapers

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @BiscuitDoughJones: "Oxytocin bonded". What a load. There have been men I've been all fuzzy about after sex, and there have been men I've been more like, "That was nice. Get off me and go home.".

katastic

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @ThaKadinskyPapers: That I could do without. Though sometimes I watch and I want to tell the one girl to get her thyroid checked because her eyes look like they're going to plop out. I don't know if she has a condition or is just incredulous at the dumb shit guys do (see: rapping roller skater).

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @TaraIncognita: Really? Nobody else thinks she looks weird? Is there a consensus on this that I don't know about?

Jezebabe

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @sartastic: Love. You.

SheLaughs

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @hamburgerhotdog: yeah, I kinda like her, too. except when she's in her office and wailing at her staff like a banshee and then she calls them 'unprofessional' right before she proclaims that she "loves them like her own".

ThaKadinskyPapers

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @SarahMC: Well said.

I actually couldn't stand her in the beginning, but the more I watched it, the more I saw that she was just trying to make things happen for her clients. She hates the fact that they're totally shallow--but she knows it's what they want so she delivers. She also lectures them on being less shallow (like the 50 year old who wouldn't settle for a woman unless she was below the age of 25), but they don't always listen.

MakeMeSmile

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @redfem: Being constantly congratulated by my doctor for being a virgin is why I finally had sex with someone I had lukewarm feelings for. That shut her up...

AlmostZooey

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @sinbad20: I'm so sorry to hear that.

noseriously

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @BiscuitDoughJones: and what was that about 'being bonded to him for 2 to 3 years' because of the oxytocin??

ThaKadinskyPapers

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @mysterygirl: I used to be really shy around guys, too, until I got (no kidding) a couple of gay guy friends in high school. That helped me transition to my ambiguously gay/maybe not gay (still not sure) dancer guy friend, and now all my closest friends are guys. Doing something like that really did help my love life. I don't know why I felt so weird around them in my adolescence. I had male best friends in grade school.

cannotedit

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @jezebellian: I met my hubs online and would not have met him otherwise. Because he is shy and I am smart. So he doesn't know how to chat up women, and I kept getting hit on by the smoothies. Ugh. We could have been a 50's comic book about people who never marry.

noseriously

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine: Well, I don't think she's telling them to change who they are. She's giving them tips to have successful dates. If you want a successful date, don't tell the woman she's beautiful a dozen times; don't invite all your bros to the table at dinner. Though I guess maybe it'd be better for everyone involved if guys with that shit lurking underneath never got women to begin with, as their nasty habits are bound to resurface eventually. Ahh, I don't know!

SarahMC

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @sinbad20: it probably feels horrible now...but it gets better...

sartastic

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @redfem:
Dude, I'm totally giving you a virtual pat on the back. And I get what you're saying, whenever I tell other girls (or guys) how many people I've had sex with, you can tell they think I'm some "dirty slut" (some guy called me that, even though he slept with way more people then me. Ass). But, its like, I'm not dirty, I'm horny.

eraserheadpixies (now representing norwegian xanax and JESUS!1!@#!)

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> I found a guy with ambition who was my best friend - he just broke up with me after 5 years.

sinbad20

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @mysterygirl: the friend path is not usually conducive to a great love story Well, at least now I know why I haven't had a great love yet... Does having only like 2 friends in this city mean I will soon meet the love of my life, then?

cate3710

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @leMaldeTete: What?! Lady, it's time for an intervention.

mightymouth

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @BiscuitDoughJones: Agreed. I slept with my boyfriend on the first date (actually before the first date), and we've been together for three years. What I can't understand is how you know you really want to spend a ton of time with someone if you haven't had sex.

moonagirl

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @SarahMC: Okay, but what happens after a few dates or when they get serious and the facade comes down? Unless people really want to change, the shallow surface changes they make won't stick. I mean, you can put a blazer on someone, but you can't make them a good person.

NB: Not that I think the dude was blameless. But I do wonder about Ms. Stanger's methods.

Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @mysterygirl: Totally.

I agree with her. My best, longest-lasting relationships were ones where I got to know the guy as a friend first before taking things to a romantic place. You learn a lot about someone as a friend and it gives you more perspective and clarity as to how they'll act towards lovers.

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @redfem: ::curtsy::

sartastic

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Artful Slinger: Yeah. I like Patti enough, and I really like the two women on her staff, but every episode makes me more and more averse to L.A.

SarahMC

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @hamburgerhotdog: I admit it - she's grown on me.
I totes would have dated the short (5'6") guy.

CreoleSugar

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Gangee: I thought she meant that having a guy as a a good friend will help you be more comfortable around men in general and thus help you find someone else to date. Or at least I hope that's what she meant, because I agree with you that the friend path is not usually conducive to a great love story.

mysterygirl

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @tailfeather: @redfem:

I always think those who are more "sexually expressive" are the fun ones. Just sayin'.

What was it Billy Joel sang? He'd rather laugh with the sinners? Yeah, that sounds about right.

Tara Incognita

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine: I didn't realize they might have gotten her service for free.
I thought they were way too attached to each other.

CreoleSugar

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> I watch this show as well and I don't mind her. What it does do is confirm the thought that no half way intelligent person should move to Los Angeles single and believe they will find true love.

ArtfulSlingerBARACKED THE VOTE

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @CorporateTool: Awwww, thanks! What kind of honoraries do we get for blow jobs, hand jobs, letting them come on your boobs? Extra points for getting it stuck in your hair.

Sartastic totes wins the gold at 80+, though. Yay Sartastic!

redfem

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Gangee: Actually, she's saying these girls should be friends with guys they AREN'T interested in, just as practice for being around guys they ARE.

No word on whether they'll bring her back for a show with a bunch of confused guys: "WTF, these girls started hanging out with us all the time and suggesting we go to Chelsea Piers and stuff, but then they weren't interested in us at all!"

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @jezebellian: Online stuff isn't that bad, you should try putting a profile up on one of the free ones and just see who responds. 90% of them are creepy, but 10% are super nice, and those are almost equal to the odds anywhere.

Snowbunny

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> I Love the MM, but I wouldn't want to date slash marry any of those knobs in a trillion years. I think Patti does her job very well, and I espesh appreciate it when she gives them EXACTLY what they ask for, eg 25-year-old model types, and the girls think the guys are old and creepy.

missdotparker

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> I actually like her. She's kind of crazy, but aren't we all in some way? The men on her show are ridiculous: the two best friends who won't go on dates without one another, the guy who wanted a down to earth girl but dates the 22 year old actress, the guy with the stripper pole in the middle of his house (although it was funny when he danced on it in front of his date). These guys can't meet women and she tells them why and helps them fix whatever the problem is.

AthertonMerriweather

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine: Yeah but if it was that easy, he would of. Most of the guys on the show have some serious flaw or road block stopping them from dating anyone seriously.

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @TaraIncognita: Point. I'd cracked 8 by 17. I'm worried for my Future Genius Children in case whorishness is hereditary. I guess they'd be MY little sluts, though. Awww.

tailfeather

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @tailfeather: Give it time. I just turned 24. Ima slut this town up.

@LoveNoelG: Haha, me too. Half the ones I know are christian self-hating gays.

@TaraIncognita: LOL - yup, kinda. See above.

redfem

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @redfem:*sound of clapping* Woo! 8 Guys!

CorporateTool

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> I DON'T CARE WHAT Y'ALL SAY I LIKE HER.

The vapid part is her giving these dudes what they want, which is what they pay her to do. And the girls aren't even Russian supermodels, they're just normal, cute girls next door type. If the dudes wanted to meet girls who weren't cute I don't think they'd have to pay to do it.

She also whips them into fucking shape and gives them harsh doses of reality.

She may not wear kid gloves during her beatings but the lady has a point. She's good at what she does.

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @TaraIncognita: Yeah, exactly: it's no surprise that she deals with a bunch of millionaire software geeks! She's absolutely right that a lot of them get rich and dream of some revision of high school where the get the cheerleader* -- and the women she's dealing with are Women Who Want to Marry Millionaires, for god's sake. She's incredibly bothersome, but her standards pretty much come with the job description.

*This is a habit of true-blue guy geeks that I've never entirely understood; they're like the only misfit group that still dreams of winding up one of the popular kids.

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> Saving yourself is stupid. Sex is no big goddamn deal. "Oxytocin bonded" MY ASS. Let's not make sex out to be more than it really is, because that's a one-way train to Letdown City.

BiscuitDoughJones

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> her advice is wack. the 'when harry met sally' rule is true - you can't pick a guy and say "i'm gonna be your friend" just like that.

it also depends on what the guy's ambition is. ambition to be a rock star and/or sleep with every hot girl to make up for his nerdy past is not the right ambition.

rednrowdy

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Jezebabe: Fuck off.

ManhattanManHatin'

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Jezebabe: I still think this woman is really a man, or just had really unfortunate plastic surgery...

C'mon, now...

Tara Incognita

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> Be his friend first?? Why, so you can sit around and listen to him complain about all the women he's dating that aren't you? I suppose you could always hope for a Vanessa Williams Save the Best For Last moment, but I'm pretty sure that crap only happens in songs and ChicLit.

/cynacism

Gangee

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> has anyone here used a matchmaker? or are they just for rich folk? I need to meet some new people and the online thing kind of scares me.

jezebellian is feeling cranky

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @tailfeather: Yeah, if you only knew she's only 12. (Joking!)

::hugs to redfem::

Tara Incognita

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @redfem: HEAR HEAR.

Fuck them and their narrow-mindedness. I don't think being slutty makes you a bad person. Hell, I lost track of the number of guys that I've done somewhere around 80, and I don't feel like it makes me less of a person!

sartastic

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine: "Being himself" wasn't working too well, was it? These men JOIN Patti's service and then when she actually does her job, they get all pissy and offended.

The more I watch this show, the more I like Patti. She only prioritizes looks because that's what her clients ask for. I wouldn't feel comfortable going along with that, but it's not like she decided upon the standards herself.

SarahMC

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> I still think this woman is really a man, or just had really unfortunate plastic surgery...

Jezebabe

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @redfem: Adult virgins make me very uncomfortable. I certainly don't applaud, I recoil in fear.

I know this is wrong and weird, but I just can't help it.

LoveNoelG

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @redfem: I consider that very restrained, and tip my invisible hat.

tailfeather

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @TaraIncognita:

Correction/amendment: What those guys are in it for

Tara Incognita

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Sugarless: True. Though he was the one who was "inseparable" from his "best friend." Who knows why they went on, though there's a disclaimer at the end that says, if the dudes agree to be on TV, they get services for free, so maybe for the hell of it.

Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> While it is bitchery that she makes all her women have long hair, I will say that most of the dudes I have "dated" LOVE long hair. What men DON'T like? Extensions. They freak dudes out.

rachystyle

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> She probably knows that her clients are stupid and shallow, but hell, a job's a job.

ManhattanManHatin'

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> "Every man has a strong woman behind him?" If he falls down and injures himself, she can just carry him the rest of the way.

Lady Skittlehattington

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> OK, I'm going to play devil's advo here and say that while she does prioritize looks and money, so, too, do her clients. Girl is in it to win it, and meals come from money, yes?

I couldn't do it, and yeah, it bugs, but she's honest about what the guys are lookin' for.

Tara Incognita

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> Confession: I watched the Millionaire Matchmaker marathon last night for WAY too long. Even postponing sex for it. What is wrong with me?

leMaldeTete

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> "When she's not being ridiculously shallow, she can actually be sage!" -- I think her whole schtick is sage advice for shallow people, right? How to Find a Successful Relationship That Meets Your Shallow Requirements. Which isn't the worst role in the world.

briardahl

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> Decent advice, but ugh I hate people who congratulate virgins. Having sex, not having sex, neither of these have inherent value in them.

I want someone to start clapping for me when I tell them I've fucked eight guys. Good for you, Redfem! I am so proud of you for hanging on like that!

redfem

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> i've been suckered into watching her show (thanks for showing reruns when i'm getting ready for work, bravo!); half of the time i'm yelling at patti and half of the time i'm agreeing with her.

(why i'm always late to work)

silkyjumbo

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> @Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine:
Yes, but wouldn't he have done that already before paying Patti a wad of dough?

CreoleSugar

]]> <![CDATA[Matchmaker Patti Stanger Gives Surprisingly Good Advice On <i>Tyra</i>]]> The best moment of this show was when she was lecturing some millionaire about what he needed to change, and he said, "Or I could just be myself and find a girl who likes me." The man had a point.

Blue Skies, Golden Sunshine

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