Like most people this day in age, I’ve had my share of experience in the on-line dating arena. After my marriage fell apart I joined an online dating site simply to seek affirmation that, yes, men still found me attractive. I did go out on a few dates to realize that while there are great benefits of weeding people out online (based on politics, religion, hair color, height, etc..) there are some things you can’t find out about a person until you meet face-to-face. For instance; I once met with a man who showed up to our date wearing tricked-out sneakers with no socks, a gold pinky-ring and had the shifty eyes of a date-rapist. Clearly, I have nothing in common with a man who wears a pinky ring.
Recently, a friend of mine sent me an invitation to join a new dating site created by some “friends-of-friends” she went to school with. She said she joined and, so far, liked it and suggested I do the same. So I clicked on the link to “IvyDate.com” to check out the deal-e-o with my usual low expectations of what I might come across.
The name should have tipped me off: It’s a site for “Ivy League graduates and exceptional singles who value intellectual curiosity, love of learning, drive and determination.” I laughed and continued to read “Our online dating community includes fellow students and alumni—and a diverse population of other amazing singles, including doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, academics, artists, and professionals.” The site then clearly specifies an in-depth screening process for all applicants to be sure to introduce you only to the cream of the crop. It’s clearly all about segregation in its most polite form.
The friend that referred me to the site is a) A Harvard AND Yale graduate b) A corporate attorney who owns her condo on Park Ave that c) Could EASILY get work as a runway model. (Yes, I question if I can really be friends with her on a daily basis) This site is probably a great place for her to meet a future partner and I think it’s sweet that she thought of me. But I’m EXACTLY what the site is designed to WEED out: A single mother, with poor credit, living in dumpy rental in NJ with absolutely NO post secondary education. I have fantasies of filling out the online application just to see what type of form-letter response I would get in return. I imagine something like this:
“Dear Ms. MILF,
Thank you for your recent application to IvyDate.com. But a single mother with NO education? And do you think we don’t perform criminal background checks on all of our applicants? Really, You don't need to be a graduate of Yale to understand why your application has gone into the REJECT pile.
Please do not contact our offices again or you will hear from our attorneys.
- IvyDate.com “
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