Cool people totally brag about getting laid on poli sci message boards
Faculty Member in My Dept. Has Profile on Dating Site
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Posted 11 months ago #
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it obviously means it's true...
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You people are probably having terrible luck on dating sites, most likely because:
1. Pictures DO matter a great deal. It's not 1996. Attractive people use online dating too. So if there's no pic on your profile, most people will assume that you are ugly or fat, diminishing greatly the chances that they will reply to your message. Let's all be honest: people assess you on your looks first, profile content second. If you claim otherwise, you are probably ugly and in denial.
2. Sending a copy and paste email is a massive FAIL and reveals that you have no game. You might think that the recipient won't be able to tell that you sent a form email, but unless they are a complete idiot they most likely will. My (girl) friends have received loads of these on OKCupid etc. and they forward them to each another and have a good laugh about them, post them to blogs/jezebel etc. (there are articles about this online, google it.)
Posted 11 months ago # -
"^^^ By proper do you mean he walks around like he's got something up his butt? Because now you know he probably does."
Keep the gay jokes to yourself... by proper I actually mean he thinks he is a superstar in the making.
Posted 11 months ago # -
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So what is discordant about somebody being an academic superstar, and also liking gay sex? Are there seriously any departments where that would be an issue (or at least, departments that a superstar would want to work at). At least the crappy gay joke was relevant to the fact that the guy likes dudes (unless he is a top, and to be fair, I'm straight and greatly appreciate the female form, but am also curious about what it feels like to be penetrated).Posted 11 months ago # -
I'm gay too, smart guy. How do you think I saw this? The site is not a dating website -- it for finding anonymous guys only filtering on location. eg: the closest guy will do. I just think it funny that he pretends to be a very important proper person when he is trolling for the closest dick possible.
Posted 11 months ago # -
^^
1. People with anti-gay political beliefs do not necessarily discriminate on that basis in their professional lives. You could, presumably, hate Republicans "of the worst kind", but still hire one if they were clearly the best person for the job.
2. Even if that isn't true, there were probably people in Barney Frank's district who voted against him because he was gay. But to have a meaningful impact on tenure decisions, etc. you need a majority that feel that way. I sincerely doubt that the faculty of Princeton or Yale - or even the University of Dallas - have a majority of faculty with sufficient anti-gay prejudices to influence career-relevant decisions for a member of faculty.^
I think you two should meet up for some not-so-anonymous good times.Posted 11 months ago # -
^You're right. But you failed to consider that Liberals assume Conservatives discriminate like they do in their hiring practices. I regularly see my faculty colleagues try to discern job candidates political leanings to determine how to vote. It's then fun to watch them invent things that make the candidate a "poor fit" for the job if they believe the candidate may have Conservative leanings.
Posted 11 months ago # -
It could easily happen that new faculty don't know all the new grad students. At a lot of large departments, some of the faculty treat grad students like furniture. The saying at Harvard is that when a grad student drops dead, the faculty just step over them. MIT's relatively small dept is in two different buildings and the two sides don't have much contact.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Is she a great big fat person?
Posted 10 months ago # -
I sense some hate-fueled butt sex about to happen ...
Posted 10 months ago # -
When I was a new graduate student, I came across the personals ad for one of my fellow new grad students on a site. It had her photo. The ad even talked about political science and how she was new to the community. I replied, mentioning, "what a coincidence, I'm new to the community too, and I'm also studying political science." Then I regaled her with something that had happened to me in class that very day. A class she was also in.
We never did go out. :(
Posted 10 months ago # -
^Did you ever talk to her in person?
You should have used the info on the site to get her attention in person, instead of replying to the ad.
Posted 10 months ago # -
^ LOL, yes. I had already asked her out and been shot down by the time I found her personals ad. I don't know what she needed the ad for. She was smoking hot. She was the kind of girl you can see from half a block away and know she's hot.
Posted 10 months ago # -
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Hot people can benefit from online dating as well, if they have really specific tastes which require them to expand their pool of potential dates. For instance, if she had a midget fetish, the fact that her hotness attracts everybody she meets would be of little value because few of the people she meets would be midgets. If there were only three midgets in the community, expanding her search through online dating would help her chances of scoring.Posted 10 months ago # -
I heard an attractive female grad student is running a field experiment on match.com. IRB shouldn't have approved it.
Posted 10 months ago # -
I met a hot russian anal/oral blonde on a dating site...will do her tomorrow no joke.
Posted 10 months ago # -
I have to return some videotapes.
Posted 10 months ago # -
That's a very fine chardonnay you're drinking. I want you to clean your vagina.
Posted 10 months ago # -
I think he was probably a closet homosexual who did a lot of cocaine.
Posted 10 months ago #