approval!

[fox]

Okay, so it's not that I'm a fan of online dating services.  But!  There was just a commercial on the TV for match.com, with lots of little stick figures wandering around and pairing up and then separating, like a big collage of trial and error, and when the little stick figures found each other and they were the right couple the pair of them would blink and then disappear, and some of the pairs? were pairs of little man stick figures, and some were little woman stick figures (this is in addition, of course, to the pairs that were one of each).  Huzzah!  I hereby advocate match.com for anyone who happens to be in the market for an online dating service.

Comments

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

That is very awesome.

[spring-1970.livejournal.com]

Um, I'm not sure you saw that right. I'll have to watch it carefully next time I see it.

The reason I say that is that gays and lesbians have asked before why match.com won't help them find mates and match.com has responded that they only set couples up who can get married.

But you may be right - I haven't watched that closely.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

It was pretty unambiguous -- two little women figures with a blinky heart and then they disappeared. There were some little figures that were matched with a both women and men before they found the right one and winked out.

I have noticed before that dating services (such as those whose direct mail lands in my box, grr) often have "men seeking women" and "women seeking men" and no other options, which of course is annoying even if one isn't a woman seeking a woman or a man seeking a man. Which is why I was surprised and pleased by this commercial. A couple of things strike me as possible: the reasoning you describe sounds to me like the sort of thing eharmony.com would say, since their advertising is all about what percentage of their customers end up married; and, if it is match.com, they may have different commercials for different markets. Not that Virginia is a bastion of progressive thought or anything, but (correct me if I'm wrong) NoVA and the DC area in general is a shade or two bluer than the Atlanta metro area, no?