Spilling the beans on dud dates does neither party a good turn.
Another kiss-and-tell book. One more woman slagging off the men she's met, kissed and shagged during online dating. Blue Mountains resident Carole Lethbridge was a 65-year-old veteran of four marriages when she decided to try her luck at internet dating. Her new book, Online Dating After Sixty, carries the subtitle “One woman's journey of love, lust and losers".
That says it all.
Lethbridge met a bunch of men online including some she admits were pleasant and intelligent but lacked her required "chemistry". Yet she dismisses them all as losers. Not just losers but "tragics, duds and dickheads" to use one of her colourful descriptions. It's quite astonishing how many writers, particularly women, are willing to exploit the vulnerabilities of genuine online daters for the purpose of spinning a good yarn. Yes, the online dating scene does include players and users but most participants are ordinary men and women who find the whole process daunting enough without people sending them up by writing about their foibles.
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