It's like playing dodgeball.

[elwen]

Not that I would expect Cosmo to be deep or anything, and not that I read enough of it to know what it's usually like, but its list of Best Places to Meet a Guy seemed stunningly . . . I dunno. Shallow? Useless? Ill-considered?

Basically, they listed places where, statistically, you are more likely to find men (and unmarried men). Just men, though. Not: men you would necessarily want to date, men who might actually be seeking relationships, men in a location where they're open to meeting new people.

In other words, they probably should have listed things like LAN party, anime convention, porn section at the video store, etc.

What they actually listed weren't much better, including places like:
- the Apple store
- the weight room in a gym
- a tech company
- engineering grad school

I guess the list would useful for people who are "man-hunting" in the most literal sense, when you can compare it to fishing where they're biting or hunting where there's the most game. But I thought even Cosmo readers would have a more complex set of criteria than that.

Comments

[toriru4ever.livejournal.com]

I suppose it beats match.com :D
but seriously unless you work in a tech company or GO to school at an engineering school that's just odd to be hanging out there to pickup a guy x_x;;
imagine if some man magazine had something similar
nursing school
english department
curves ...maybe not hehe

[not-a-vampire.livejournal.com]

Honestly, this list is totally unnecessary. Males are wired so that if a female approaches a guy under circumstances where he can take the time to socially interact, you don't need to worry about it. Of course, other issues such as attractiveness, social skills, and single/not single may assert themselves, but that would play in at any of these venues.

[meril.livejournal.com]

I've met men at anime conventions and engineering schools. I've dated male engineering students (who I incidentally met at the school RPG club.)

The men you meet at both, if you are both under 25, are far better as friends than as mates. ;)

[ctrl-a.livejournal.com]

As they say, "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."

[meril.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty odd goods myself, so I completely agree with that statement.

[nendil.livejournal.com]

LOL, I know I get picked up all the time at A Steak House.

Fact: The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf near UCLA is not very populated, and when it is it's usually females studying on their laptops.

[maoware.livejournal.com]

I can understand the Apple store: boys spending lots of money on pretty things to play with. Seems perfect for the Cosmo audience.

[thierrys.livejournal.com]

lol. apparently my undergraduate campus, which had a 3:2 ratio of girls to guys, was listed in a men's magazine as a 'great place for singles'. it's like, 'you don't understand! they're all single because they're either OBSESSED WITH SCHOOL or HATE MEN! or BOTH!'

[ctrl-a.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have the same response for going to engineering schools to look for guys: "You don't understand! They're all single because they're either OBSESSED GEEKS or SOCIALLY INEPT! or BOTH!" ^^;;

I guess you'd have to be desperate to rely on these sorts of articles to begin with, so it's okay that the people you find there are suitable only if you're desperate?

[ling84.livejournal.com]

Seems like the criteria is both "desperate" and "moneyed," since the places listed imply that the guys have a goodly chunk of disposable income (Apple store, gym) or that they are able to have said income (engineering grad school, tech company).

Sounds like gold digger stuff to me. Cosmo, tsk tsk.

[maoware.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, gold-digging. Classic.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/the-economics-of-gold-digging/

[ling84.livejournal.com]

Engineering grad school? WTF? >.<

Goods are quite quite odd indeed. Plus, a bunch of EE grad students realized that most of the guys in the PhD program are already married, while the girls are all single.