But I Don’t Wanna be a Pirate
The wonderfully funny, All-American Joe Clabby brought to my attention recently a scene from Seinfeld in which George is talking about a date he has planned.
George: Well I think I’m better off going one-on-one.
Jerry: I don’t know why you want to play man-to-man when you could play a zone.
George is afraid that if he takes his new lady-friend out on a group date with Jerry and Elaine, she’ll see Jerry as the funny one in the group and leave George.
Elaine: He thinks that if a woman sees a guy put on a better show, she’ll walk out on his show, go see the other show.
That brings us to point six in our list of Why Ignighter Rules and Conventional Online Dating Blows: “The Group Setting Helps Weed out the Loners and Boners.” When you’re on a group date, your friends keep you honest. If you are one-on-one with a stranger you met over the internet (a la match.com date) you can misrepresent yourself so that you become exactly what you think your target audience (your date) is looking for.
After charming the attractive attorney earlier in the episode, George is nervous that the group setting will reveal his true identity.
George: You see, this is what I do with women. I start out too strong, now I have to become real, that’s when it all falls apart. What good is real? They don’t want real, they want funny.
In this analogy, George represents just the boners we’re talking about; people who adopt a fake persona to impress their dates. The group setting doesn’t allow for this misrepresentation. It forces people to be themselves because that’s how we naturally act when we’re with our friends.
George is better off on Match or JDate where they play man-to-man and there’s nobody around to call you out when you’re lying. Jerry understands that it’s much more natural to play zone, he’d use Ignighter.
And a quick note on weeding out the loners. Because you can’t start an Ignighter group alone, antisocial loners simply can’t use it. We’re not trying to discriminate, I promise. We are just trying to cultivate a fun, social atmosphere. People who have absolutely no friends to bring along would probably have more fun on a Second Life group date anyway.
Adam
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