Today, something a bit lighter than usual. Someone recently posted the a link in the comments here to a hilarious blog called Swedish Girl Seeking, which displays the results of a simple but wicked dating site experiment being carried out by a couple of funny Swedes.
The two – a female comic book artist and a male comedian – set up a phony dating profile featuring a “blonde, happy-go-lucky, kind of over-sexual cliché of a Swedish woman.” (The female half of the couple posed in a cheap blond wig for the pics.)
When a legion of hopeful, horny men besieged the imaginary girl’s inbox with come-ons ranging from awkward to crude, the Swedes responded with surreal silliness. And then posted the most ridiculous conversations online.
While there are a few genuinely creepy messages amongst the dozens posted on the site – it looks like the Swedish duo kept the worst messages to themselves – the most amazing ones reflect a certain willful obliviousness on the part of the hopeful male admirers. Nothing she says is too bizarre to faze them.
Well, almost nothing.
But guy after guy just keeps on going. Heck, this guy tries to work her completely ludicrous story into his suggestive spiel:
And this guy, it seems, is willing to promise her anything to get in her Swedish pants:
Dude, dude!
You’re making us all look bad.
I ended up working my way through every post on the blog. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like there will be any more: the last update was in February. Oh well.
Winter Walker – in their case, it’d be revolution as in “going round and round in circles”.
Your challenge to dudes reminds me of my favourite story about Victoria and Albert – a real one. This was when they were still in their twenties. The newspapers had been sniping about Victoria looking sad/bored during a recent State visit, and at dinner one night she asked rather plaintively whatshe was supposed to look like.
“You have to be like the dancers at the opera – always smiling,” Albert said. He got up, did a mighty pirouette and landed on one foot, the other leg extended, with a huge fixed grin on his face the whole time. As the person (Lady Lyttleton, iirc) reporting this said, not many men could do that after a heavy dinner!
Word! I was pointing out to my family earlier on how much leg strength does a dainty gymnast needs to do a complete backflip from a stationary position.
“He got up, did a mighty pirouette and landed on one foot, the other leg extended, with a huge fixed grin on his face the whole time. ”
And people wonder why Victoria was so devoted to Albert.
Heck, I’d marry the guy!
Exactly, Michelle! Those two have had a stupid bad press – partly because Albert was German, partly because the official bio Victoria authorised after his death was a hagiography, and partly because of all the sneering the 1920s did about the 19th century. Albert was a fascinating man and certainly had a fine (and sometimes snarky) sense of humour, with people he knew. Plus he was seriously good looking as a young man!
From everything I’ve read about Victoria and Albert, they seem like a wonderful couple. Pity they didn’t have longer to be together.
Winter Walker – your account of dating website creepiness reminds me of the creepypm site. Every time I stop by, there are new depths of human ugliness on display.
Also, the historic Guy Fawkes was very much not a freedom fighter, unless you consider replacing James I with a Catholic absolute monarch freedom. I don’t think that highly of Scotch Jimmy, but even he was better than that.
James I left one quote I really like, talking about John Donne: “Dr Donne’s sermons are like the peace of God: they passeth all understanding.”
🙂
That AVFM picture: That picture actually does fit the MRM, since it makes people who go into contact with it seriously ill and needs to be out of this world (or I think. It’s been a long time since I watched ET).
Also, that Swedish girl reminds me of this: http://www.myx.tv/iaaa/#.U3QAAPldU5R (click on Episode 1, the rest wouldn’t make sense in this context.)
To be honest, I can understand those guys. At least this crazy Swedish girl is replying to them. Beggars can’t be choosers. I definitely don’t support how creepy most of them were, but I can see why they would play along and not get discouraged by her insane replies.
Just make ’em watch the Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo for a while. If their tendency to freak out over non-traditional gender makes their itty balls crawl back up into their abdomens never to descend again, so much the better!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsgACwdWCV0&w=420&h=315%5D
Heh. Yes, ET is about to leave to get on his spaceship in that picture. The MRM drove ET off the planet Earth.
That ET meme would be more accurate if Eliot was replaced with a 13 year old Vietnamese virgin.
ET is definitely a misandrist. Nowhere in the movie does he try to bring to the audience’s attention the serious issue of men being criticized by women.
Seriously?
@walter
1) fuck off with you and your ableism
2) why would they respond? They clearly don’t care what she actually has to say, they’re just keeping responding hoping the get something (probably sex) from the conversation.
Don’t you just feel so bad for Nice Guys who don’t constantly have women throwing themselves at them for being uninteresting and mediocre?
In related news, thanks to you people I’m now addicted to creepypms.
http://imgur.com/a/y03Ox
Ah yes. Victoria and Albert. Presided prettily over some of the worst genocides in human history, and did it with a smile and a lot of married flirtation. They are both in my White People Hall of Fuck Them.
I have to admit, I like Swedish girl’s pony test. It had an actual storyline and everything. I might try using that.
@katz
I would totally play along. It is at least worth it just to see what weird shit she writes. What do I have to lose?
@Marie
Ableism? Where did that come from?
Walter – calling someone crazy, insane and so on is ableism. Apart from that, why on earth call a comedy duo trolling OKC douchebags any of those things? That’s nonsensical.
@walter
Is this a trick fucking question? Idk I mean, kittehs already explained it to you, so I’ll stick to my snarking….
@kittehserf
Thanks for the heads up. I didn’t know that.
I wasn’t calling the comedy group or whover crazy. I was looking at it from the perspective of the emailer who doesn’t know that it’s a hoax and thinks that it’s a real person.
You know, comments like Walters remind me of the discussion my partner and I had last night. We both like an MMA fighter called Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos. She recently got banned from the UFC for steroid use – and is not as pretty as some of the other top fighters.
Ronda Rousey is another UFC fighter who is very attractive. She’s also talented and skilled, professional MMA record of 9 wins, no losses, 8 by armbar. She’s also a massive jerk. She’s a bad winner, is always mouthing off, being nasty about Cyborg but refuses to fight her even though she’s said she’s willing to come down to her weight (and she gets down to something ridiculous like 4% bodyfat to fight at her current weight). Recently said that she’s taken too many steroids to be considered a woman and called her “it”. Cyborg has NEVER said anything nasty about other fighters.
Point is, we have mutual friends who like Rousey. Fine, whatever. The fact they both felt the need to snark on her steroid use (as if she’s the only one, pffft) when my partner shared a photo of her on FB, make excuses for someone who acts like an all round nasty person (I don’t care if it’s for publicity, she’s still an arsehole) and the worst part: act like all men are as shallow as them is so irritating!
I cannot understand an attitude problem like that not seriously impacting my attraction to someone, and while you’re welcome to feel that way the clear expectation that all men feel the same way as them – if I argue it I just don’t understand, because bisexuality isn’t real, my partner obviously lies to me – if my partner argues it they make it clear they think he agrees and just isn’t admitting it to himself.
Kind of a massive tangent but the idea of continuing to talk to someone who shows no personality in the hopes of getting laid because “beggars can’t be choosers” (gag) reminded me of it.
…Minutes of your life that could have been spent doing literally anything else?
*sigh* Walter. The concept of ableism is that dismissing bad behaviour as “crazy” is conflating crazy with bad. Or weird, in this case. This contributes to a society where people with mental illnesses are far more likely to be at risk of abuse than give it but whenever anyone does anything awful it’s because they’re “crazy”.
What is means, is don’t use crazy/insane/psycho or anything like it to mean “odd” or “being a jerk” or “being a manipulative abuser”.
Having a mental illness =/= being a jerk and vice-versa.
None of the guys responding as if they think they’ve a chance of getting into GirlFromSweden’s pants is showing well in this.
Beggars can’t be choosers – um, no, they’re only interested in fucking what they perceive as a Hot Swedish Babe. Are they hitting on women they think are ugly? I’ll bet they aren’t.
They patently don’t give a shit about what she’s saying. Does that mean they really think there’s something wrong with her? If they do, then they’re not beggars, they’re potential predators. If they don’t, then they’re stupid enough to go along with trolling/manipulation as long as they think they’ll get sex out of it. Also not a good look. There’s little enough sign they’re taking any notice of what she’s saying – and if they are, well, ewwww.