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Star Wars Fans Look For Love In Alderaan Places
Hugh Pickens writes "The Christian Science Monitor reports that devoted fans at the recent Star Wars Convention V, many dressed as Jedi knights, stormtroopers, or the indomitable Princess Leia, sat opposite one another for a series of 3-minute speed dates, in hopes of finding a connection with a fellow Star Wars enthusiast. 'Over the course of the three events, due to size and time, we turned away about 600 participants,' says Ryan Glitch. 'Yesterday, this room was packed. We had to keep shoveling people along.' Meanwhile in the main exhibition hall, a chapel was set up to allow fans to profess their love and devotion to each other in the form of commitment ceremonies. 'I've been told that we've had two commitment ceremonies from people that met at my event,' says Glitch adding that he saw eight additional couples at the convention made up of people who had attended his speed dating sessions."
I'd assume it is highly skewed towards the male side, which would make too few chubby Leias to go around for too many acne-scarred Wookies.
BTW, topic title == WIN.
I don't know if you know this - but Speed Dating is actually a popular thing amongst many single people (especially in the states). It removes the stigma of having to spend an entire evening with someone, having to pay out a lot of money on a date, etc etc - something that very busy people don't have a lot of time for.
Especially when girls are looking for "The One" - they feel the need to search through hundreds of guys to find "Him". 100 guys with 1 date a week would take 2 years.
With Speed dating a girl can go through that many in a month.
In most cases, speed dating appeals just as much if not moreso to women than it does to men. The idea of "Take it slow" is when getting intimate, which is not part of speed dating, thats swinger parties you're thinking of.
Yeah, I'm certain that's the way it went. I know a couple guys who applied but didn't make the cut. There are a ton of women who go to Celebrations, though. And Cosplay is a huge part of it. More Slave Leias than you can shake a stick at, and a good number of them respectable. I'd say overall there's about a 20/80 split female to male at Celebrations. For Dragon*Con it's closer to 40/60.
With a title like that, do you need another reason?
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