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This will never work. Women read trash.
by naturalethic 17y ago
This will never work. Women read trash.
- axod 17y agoI don't know why you're being downmodded, I agree. I don't think 'books you like' is a good way at all to match people up. But then I hardly ever read any fiction.
- mseebach 17y agoIt's probably being downmodded because it's bigoted, but you're both missing the point. It's a niche-site for people who like reading fiction - for people for whom 'books you like' is a good way to be matched up. Someone who thinks they like reading because they read the latest Dan Brown, or people who don't like reading, will be probably be disappointed, but they're not in the niche, so that's not really a problem.
- axod 17y agoSuggesting that Women have different tastes in general to men is bigoted now is it? He could have put it more delicately, but I believe he has a point. How many men read Mills&Boon? How many women read Terry Pratchet?
- mseebach 17y ago> Suggesting that Women have different tastes in general to men is bigoted now is it? No. Stating that they read thrash is. > How many men read Mills&Boon? How many women read Terry Pratchet? There's plenty of trash to read. Some of it caters to women, some of it to men. And since when is liking Terry Pratchet the shibboleth of literary taste? While I never got the whole "geeks should like Science Fiction"-thing, I can see the charm of Pratchet. So we'd probably appeal to different kinds of partners on a literary dating site, but I guess that's pretty much the point.
- axod 17y agoI still disagree @bigot though. People should toughen up a bit and chill out. "Women read trash" is just like a woman saying men are obsessed with cars... who cares. My main point here though is, that I have absolutely no idea what my ideal woman would like reading. But it sure as hell wouldn't be anything like what I like reading. What next? Dating based on what clothes you like wearing?