Golddigging Goes Commercial…
January 25, 2007 by Joseph Matthews
Filed under Rants
Looks like Speed-Dating is getting down to the nitty gritty… guys looking for hot chicks, girls looking for MONEY. Read the following, if you can stomache it.
Jan. 25, 2007— Jimmy Cyrus is a 25-year-old New York City bachelor who works 16-hour days.
He also happens to be wealthy, an asset that makes him eligible for the upcoming “Natural Selection” speed-dating event open only to “rich guys” and “hot girls.”
Cyrus, who works in real estate, is one of nearly 150 well-to-do single men in the running for the Feb. 7 Manhattan matchmaking event.
If he makes the cut, the ticket costs $500. But for that steep a fee Cyrus may have a chance to meet Heather Tierney, a 27-year-old entrepreneur living in New York, who has also applied to attend the matchmaking event. If the Indianapolis native is chosen, her entrance fee is just $30.
Speed-dating is nothing new. For the past few years, single Americans have spent evenings in bars getting paired up with other singletons in four- to eight-minute “dates.”
But the upcoming “Natural Selection” gathering puts a spin on the trend by reinforcing some age-old ideas about relationships: Men go for looks, and women prowl for money.
Yes, let’s bring out the most shallow possible needs of our customers! Jeesh. Personally, I see this as a HUGE disaster for the men who participate in this sucker. I mean, if all you want is a hot chick who’s after money, why not just hire an escort? It’s New York, you know you could find a high class one who’d be happy to give you sex for your fat wallet.
At least with the escort, you’re bank account is somewhat protected. The girls who’d go to these things looking for rich guys could verry well be looking to entrap some poor sod. They’ll either lead him on while milking him dry, or worse, get knocked up and have a piece of his paycheck FOREVER!
*shudder*
It’s true – money can’t buy you love. It CAN buy you sex, though. So if that’s all you’re after, why pay $500 to go to a freakin SPEED DATING event? Spend that $500 on a sure thing. Or better yet, get some nice new clothes with that money, and go out and meet a woman on your own!
I get the feeling there are going to be a lot of men taken advantage of at this event. But that’s what you get for celebrating the worst people have to offer.
love=better than sex.. well ACTUALLY.. it comes with sex(most of the time)
Personally, I think the whole speed-dating thing is lame. I’ll admit outright that I’ve never tried it, so I may just be talking out my ass here. But my thinking is, if I can make a good impression in 4 to 8 minutes, why not just approach a woman who:
A) Appeals to me
B) Is giving me some signal that she may be interested
I know the speed-dating thing is supposed to be more relaxed because “you know the other person is there for the same reason.” But it seems too contrived and artificial to me. It’s just a way to extract some cash from spineless wussies. It does this by giving them some glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, this is how they are going to meet their soul mate, or maybe get laid, or at least get a date.
I realize that this same criticism is frequently leveled at PUA gurus like Deangelo et. al., but I can think of one very key difference. The PUA dudes teach you to make something happen for yourself; to take control of your own situation and make it better. Speed dating, on the other hand, simply offers you a way do an end run around your own lack of confidence and skills – and for a very short time at that. It leaves you with nothing more than you started with.