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The Real 'Stuff White People Like'
Here's an interesting and funny look at 526,000 OkCupid users, divided into groups by race and gender and all the the things each groups says it likes or is interested in. While it is far from being definitive, the groupings give a glimpse of what makes each culture unique. According to the results, white men like nothing better than Tom Clancy, Van Halen, and golfing.
Idle today (or yesterday and today depending on your time zone) has been awful. I mean I get it's idle but come on.
Being the kinds of people who participate in online dating, particularly with one named 'OkCupid'; a group I don't feel is enough to represent any ethnicity/gender with acceptable accurately.
I looked at the lists I'm sure all involved will be offended.
I've had a long-standing belief that the heavy preference for outdoorsy crap in women's profiles is their way of engineering the males they receive responses from. The basic idea is to frame yourself in an athletic manner, thereby driving off the lazy, the fat and the unambitious. In practice, I'd expect this to torpedo a lot video gamers, guys who live at home, geeks and low wage earners. In essence, it's a type of razor wire that kills off all the guys no woman wants to talk to.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
How dare you think that as a Canadian I don't like Van Halen!
Now, where'd I put that mullet...
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Just saying.
I bet if the site allowed you to keep part of your profile private, with access reserved only for your buddies, a certain multi-ethnic theme would emerge. A predilection for BJ's would cross all cultural barriers and leap to number one on the list of things most guys like.
High fives all 'round. Woot, woot!
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I hope we make contact with aliens soon so we can stop worrying about the color of the humans and start worrying about humans in general.
That's not fair. It's hard to tell Canadians from really boring white people.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Stereotyping is never good, but it has a higher degree of confidence based on the divergence of individual characteristics, as well as population. (For example, you say "all 17 year old black males like rap music", but you're actually looking at more than one characteristic - there typically is less divergence among economic status, geographic distance from peers, etc.. to put it bluntly, they tend to be poor and live close together)
Among white males, this tends to be less true wider array of economic functioning (higher % of upper middle class), geographic distribution (with few exceptions, white males can *socially* live wherever they want, if they can afford it), etc. So there's no *typical* white male.
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
They can divide this up by white/black/asian/indian/etc, but they aren't dividing it up by culture. Quite often whites in America have very little in common... just like Taiwanese and Koreans have very little in common (aside from being 'asian')... or Tanzanians and Russians... T^T
... hum along to a song by Huey Lewis and the News?
Me neither.
White is not a race and neither is black.
Just saying.
I like the evidence (not proof) provided in the final two figures that atheists really are smarter than religious people, with Christians coming in dead last. I love it!
How 99.9% of women between the ages of 15-40 list themselves as bisexual. Odd.
Canadian also somehow climbed up the slang rankings for an opposing race when you don't want to say the other slang words for them.
"Damn, those Canadians can't _____!"
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
White people love reading lists about what white people like.
Would be to not read stupid articles like this one.
Seriously, what kind of losers join online dating sites? I'm no jock, in fact in my teenage years, I was the painfully shy stereotypical Star Trek nerd. I actually hid in my room when people come visit. My parents also nicknamed me the "Wet Blanket" because of my typically nerdish cynical view of life . Finally, I realized that going on this way will not only label me as a loser forever, but also an "evolutionary loser" since I will never pass down my genes. I took a deep breath, joined a hiking club, found that I was good at it, also found out that I was a natural leader and good at public speaking, impressed a girl,who later became my girlfriend, who later became my wife. All you reading this and are thinking of joining online dating sites better rethink your lives or you end up being life long losers living alone with 100 cats. Instead, go join a real-life club or organization where you meet people face to face. There are thousands of sports clubs, volunteering organizations, hobby groups, social clubs etc. that are a million times more useful and satisfying than reading some stranger's made-up online profile.
It's a dating site. If a woman lists herself as bisexual, all she'll get are propositions for threesomes.
Geeks make low wages? I thought they decent amount of money.
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Well, I think 100 is a bit excessive, but how about 1 or 2? I used to live with 2 cats but now only have one and think it is wonderful but what really makes my life enjoyable is the 40k comic books that I own. And no, I don't see anything wrong with being a nerd! I feel that I have been a happier person than most other people and my "secret" is to simply do what *I* enjoy and not giving a damn whether other people do the same thing and/or approve of it or not!
When 1person suffers from a delusion,it is called insanity.When many people suffer from a delusion,it is called religion
Goddamn Canucks!
they want their jobs market back.
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the groupings give a glimpse of what makes each culture unique
NOT TRUE. the groupings give a glimpse of what makes members each culture who would sign up for a dating website named "okcupid" unique.
For some reason the forum in the idle section seems to be broken in any browser I've tried. When I click to view a post, all the other posts in the topic disappear. Is there a way to turn this off?
On behalf of all white guys who don't golf, don't read Tom Clancy, and don't worship Van Halen, I offer up Cee Lo Green.
Three Squirrels
All these years I thought I was white, yet I stopped reading Tom Clancy in my teens, I don't listen to Van Halen, and have never payed a game of golf in my life. (I assume that mini-golf doesn't count) I need to sit down, my entire world-view of myself just came crashing down!
Behind you
"It's ok, I'm completely secure as long as my iron is off"
WTF is soul food? Never even heard of that. :-)
Maybe instead of eating the meat of animals, they are eating their souls?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
I'm pretty sure this should be categorized under "The Wrong Kind of White People".
Such stuff is an ADVERTISEMENT. The woman is trying to sell herself, so she lists stuff that she thinks make her attractive to others.
Normal people don't spend all their time thinking everything through as if it is a move in a chess game.
Think of it as going to an exotic location on holiday just to bake in the sun. You want to world to see you as an exciting person who has seen the world, when all you really want to do is not do anything at all.
Really, the reason nerds often do bad with women is because they overthink it all. STOP. If women were complicated, jocks wouldn't be able to deal with them.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
When the corpse-exploding suicide bombers are on their way to rush into Heaven, I'm 1 of 72 virgin neckbeards that will smite them back down to Hell by Thor's Hammer.
Odinai will be pleased.
You sound like another COP that I've heard before that likes to accuse somoene of doing something illegal just to hand-out tickets that give bonuses to the judge's retirement fund and sucessful prosecution (was a recent court-case). If that were the case, then all these websites would be shut down for all manners of pederasty, stalking, and prostitution.
I continually am told that people my age are a lost cause and a lost generation that will not inherit the lifestyle of my parents. This, and I don't have any friends my age because I am just a completely different man that I prefer to study and converse with someone well into their 70's and 80's. I think there is much more at stake: the parents failed with their failed children, because it's out of our hands: the world pacified everyone for the non-domesticated religious wackos to grow around them as-is the case in Europe and East-coast America today.
I do like me some Van Halen, but golf?! I'd rather carve out my eyes with a rusty nail that play that 'sport'
How dare you think that as a Canadian I don't like Van Halen!
That wasn't an extremely polite way of saying that... admit it, you're not actually Canadian, are you? You're from New York! Nice try, NY, but -real- Canadians would apologize for being Canadian and liking Van Halen, and then would invite AC to have a beer.
If you look at race as a measure of your melanin in your skin then you will fail.
As well, it's pronounced Holy Cau-Cacian (not little-cock Asian)
White and Black is the same melanin-anomaly from mutated genetics, because skin is supposed to be able to heal itself as well as absorb light, yet you see that Blacks are actually the same anomaly as reverse Albinism. The more people breed into distant branches of genetics then this over-tampers the genetics responsible for melanin.
Just an example of this is to study when some people on India mated to druids from Europe to create the Kelt named Japheth the son of Noah known in the collective Holy Bible that founded Norway; The Kelts that migrated to the north region of the Mediterranean sea then mated with Abramids that were resonsible for most of the latination branches that slowly migrated were somewhat isolated forever from the others due to differences.
Shemites are Arabs that have more asian-blood in them than Abrahamic.
What none comprehend is that much of Africa had "light-skinned" people on the continent from the beginning before the genetics began to foul-up. It was long practice that anyone different was sent to "fairer" climates through trading routes, and so you see why the more Hamitic Celts migrated to around Spain and then landed on Ireland.
None realize that most of Africa is in-fact dark-skinned Asian, like Shemite but none no the difference because they they're looking at skin as race rather than body physiology.
GOOGLE-ANALYTICS I know, because I've seen some of the monthly-checks webmasters receive, for selling their data to Google.
I once used some of these Social websites for socializing, then I realized the "Dating" aspect is what attracts all the 'tards and felons that you just don't know who you are talking to.
Anon is like Allah/Loki in that regard; the profiles or person you think you are conversing to could be just a series of photographs from years ago that they use to troll you into revealing your photographs so their cycle continues to steal your identity to troll more photographs from someone else.
It smells like CIA all over the place.
Why is this modded troll? This article is entirely about Americans (and not just white ones). It's worth pointing out that this analysis says nothing about people from other countries.
This is "insightful"? Slashdot is sliding, fast. Mods, this is flamebait. Get a clue.
Interesting that "White People" like red socks and NASCAR. There couldn't be a little bias here possibly, or would I really find that Italians, Norwegians, Russians, Africans and Bosnians really do have this type of interest.
And all this time, I thought your beer flowed plentiful on every street corner as natural springs like it says here in this American tourist guidbook.
And to think I spent all this time bottling water I thought would be safter to drink, when I could just get off the bus and reach down into the gutter to try some of that flowing American beer.
Lying.
"I like cycling a lot."
"me too!".
So if the woman is not really cycling but used it as a filter , she is back to point zero.
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Parent post has it half right... What they mean by "white men" is "OkCupid users who identify themselves as white men."
There's also a few other sizable demographics that might be interesting, such as "People who identify themselves as white men and who don't do any sort of online dating."
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
Nah. it was just a trick to find the the most batshit insane conservative here.
All the other conservatives ignored his post. You didn't.
Guess what you are!
Does slashdot have a stake in OKC or what?
How many more years will slashdot have an off-by-one error on your Score in your profile?
You win sir.
utter complete BS list..
To learn telling the difference you can start here.
You can't handle the truth.
You'll have to forgive us Americans for wanting to pretend we're Canadian.
You are welcome on my lawn.
According to the results white men like nothing better than Tom Clancy, Van Halen, and golfing.
I'm 5 minutes in the sun away from people telling me they "loved me in the movie Powder", and I still don't like any of those.
But false advertising hardly seems to be a way to start a relationship you'll actually enjoy.
For a start there's the aspect that you're essentially starting your relationship with a lie. It's not a way to say "let's trust each other" in the long run. Once you're aware that she lied her ass off to land what she thinks is a prize male, what else is she lying about? It's not even a way to boost confidence, as basically if she was after a generic prize male and not after someone actually matching or anything, you're nothing more than a fungible commodity.
But that's not even the most important part.
The more perverse part is that it's selecting someone whose personality is pretty much guaranteed to not match hers. A guy who's actually into camping and going fishing and traveling to exotic locations, is going to want to actually do that. That's what he's interested in, and that's what makes him happy. But if she really hates those, only put those in to seem more attractive, and is actually into watching soap operas and shopping... that's not going to be all that good a match, is it? At some point down the line it's either going to mean a lot of being alone on weekends for her and whining about how men are so insensitive as to go fishing and leave her alone, while the guy is still doing his activity solo in spite of having been mistakenly thinking that he found a girl to accompany him. Or it's going to mean her freezing her ass off in a tent on some mountain and hating every minute of it, just because she lied about it before. Or various other variants of essentially not being particularly happy with what the other's actual interests are.
On a site designed for matching interests, why not, you know, actually try to actually match interests?
If your interests are shopping for clothes, why not put that down and maybe find a guy who's also into shopping for clothes? Granted, he'll probably be gay, but still... ;) Or at least someone who knows up front what he's getting into, and is prepared to resign to that fate.
Essentially, I'm reminded of The Beauty And The Beast. It's apparently actually a story which can cause women to stay in an abusive relationship, because they learned that eventually they'll change the beast. (At least according to one study.) Or even essentially look for the most fashionable beast on the block, because, hey, you can change him later. Except the beast never changes, and nagging him will just get you to see a bit more of the beast part. Usually coming at high speed at you.
In this case she's choosing to attract the kind of person which is pretty much guaranteed not to actually like the real her. It's just fishing for a different kind of beast. And if anyone is thinking that either beast will change, they're still going to have a funny surprise down the road.
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I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
According to the results white men like nothing better than Tom Clancy, Van Halen, and golfing.
You mean I'm not really white! My parents got some 'esplainin' to do!
Might they also take into consideration the 1000 white males they considered for this, were all within the same age range of 30 to 35....maybe if they hooked up a few 50+ and 20 and under crowds in there, might make it a bit more relevant
Perhaps there are more dumb Christians than anybody else, weighing on the results? Or are there really that many dumb, white, bible thumping rednecks?
Race, ethnicity, and culture are distinct. I am a White male of European ancestry living the Hawaiian Pidgin culture in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood in the U.S. mainland.
The slider that lets you hide/reveal hidden or abbreviated comments seems to be broken in idle.slashdot.com
Someone please inform the important people if they don't know already.
Middle eastern men like Nickleback? So that explains their continued popularity.
Hiking clubs? Tell us you're having a laugh. I see hiking clubs walking past (in the UK) and I'd say their average age was 65. Males outnumber females 2:1. I am in a photographic club, another non-geek activity (having an art side) and the demograph is similar. Maybe a knitting club would be different (at least the ratio), but I never joined one.
I met my wife in a dating club. I met far more girls in that club than I would ever have done outside, in what you call "real life". In my "real life" I never seemed to meet any although there was nothing wrong with my looks or build.
It's like trying to throw a double-six with dice : the more throws you make the more likely you are to get it.
How you meet someone doesn't matter, it's what develops afterwards. On the first dates with girls through the club, we usually moved on from the club itself as a topic of conversation within the first 10 minutes.
And, contrary to some ideas here, and my initial worry, I met some hot stuff. My first steady GF from the club had recently been a Bunny Girl at the London Playboy Club; disbelieve that if you want (but she wasn't as good as you might be thinking). Another was near ringer for Fairuza Balk (as in The Craft) but with a better complexion and a smaller mouth - the prettiest girl I have ever seen although the personality lagged behind. Two others were nymphos, but I won't go into that.
You say we should meet people "face-to-face". You've lost me there; that is the very point of a dating club.
I got to know all sorts over several years. During that time I saw the most "real life" and had the most face-to-face encounters in my life.
This had to be based on the East Coast of the US. And white men and golf: I'll never understand the attaction, a lot of white males must be terribly bored in order to waste an entire morning/afternoon (or both) chasing around a little white ball. Yes, I am a white male with an actual life to live.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
This isn't news for nerds, and it's in fucking idle. Why is it showing up in my main RSS feed?
I swear I'm THIS CLOSE ---->----- to leaving Slashdot forever.
Sorry, but "golfing" is not a word. One plays golf. One does NOT go "golfing." Dammit.
Despite the fact I'm not an OKCupid user, I don't like any of those things - possibly, either I'm not a man or I'm not white. I'm gonna go with not white, given the general intercultural promiscuity of our forefathers. Here's to Yellow Fever!
It's interesting that in the women's list boating ranks above horses, while in my own experience it is exactly the other way round. My cynical guess is that anyone who can afford a boat (as Lipton said, it's like tearing up banknotes under a cold shower) is seen by a lot of women as a good prospect. People who can afford boats can afford horses, but a lot of people who like horses don't have so much money (perhaps through a belief that one horse can be reliably predicted to run faster than another.)
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
Ain't talking 'bout love.
Yeah, my love is rotten to the core.
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
It's hard to tell Canadians from really boring white people.
C'mon now - if there's a guy with a Maple Leafs jersey on and he's holding a Molson - you've got pretty good odds there.
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Oh, those guys are anything but boring. They're friggin' hilarious. Almost as strange as the ones from Saskatchewan wearing watermelon helmets.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
men list things such as guitars, nascar, tom clancy, harleys...
women like things like "I'm blond," mascara, diet coke, flip-flops, and "my toes"
call me a misogynist, but...
no, never-mind.
I don't like Tom Clancy, Van Halen, or golf... (looks at arm) Hey, I never noticed that pigment before!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.