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I've considered opening a lounge next door to Modern called "Antiquainted", where everyone wears tweed and sits on over-embellished Victorian furniture sipping absynthe and listening to Burl Ives.
The thing is, you KNOW that place would draw a crowd.
I am sure my homeboy Bajan Yankee will be here soon though. Followed by Gilgamesh.
Haha. I'm not sure what some of those points in the article have to do with dating, but whatever.
The one point I do agree with is that women in DC feel their education and credentials give their attractivness a "boost." Even though few women come right out and say it, you can discern from their tone that they really think "I went to Harvard and I deserve a man who went to Harvard!" Well, the world doesn't work that way, so they need to get over it.
He's wrong about white chicks. I can't move five feet without seeing a white, Asian or South Asian cutie of slender proportions. At Whole Foods, the Post Office, Trader Joe's, Metro, Mr. Yogato, Home Depot, the E Street Cinema, the Mall, Pentagon City, you name it, there are cuties there. There's only a problem if you're into dating black chicks because there are honestly few slim ones and even fewer cute ones.
I think the title of that guys blog should have been "DC sucks for some guys" or something like that. Face it, the DC being discussed in this article isn't everybody's cup of tea. If you are an accountant with a prestigious education and you constantly wear business casual, then DC is for you in terms of the dating scene. If you are a self employed entrepreneur or an artist who prefers to wear jeans, baseball caps and sneakers, then you will not do well socially in gentrified/yuppified DC. If you do dress casual like this on the weekends, you better have a dressed up government job during the week days to be taken seriously. Hipsters do have a little niche in DC, especially on U street, but their crowd is very cliquey, segregated and overwhelmingly White. If you are urban like a New Yorker you probably will hate DC. Most New Yorkers I've met in DC have very much acclimated to the professional vibe of the District. But this comes with the territory. DC has to be professional, corporate and career-oriented because it is the nation's capital. If Obama made a live speech from the Oval Office wearing a tilted flat billed Nationals fitted with the sticker still on it with some camo cargo shorts and some shiny Nike Foamposites propped up on the desk, who the hell would take the United States seriously?! It is the same for the citizens of professional White collar DC. Kids in the hood in DC may dress vibrant, funky and fresh but grown ups with jobs are much more conservative because their careers demand it. DC is not like Brooklyn where you have 35-50 year old men and women wearing Jordans, Pelle Pelle leathers and flat-brimmed NY Yankee fitted caps. DC is also not like Silicon Valley with lazy pot heads jumping on trampolines and playing old school arcade games at successful web firms. The professional vibe of DC definitely also dictates the dating scene and who does well and who doesn't.
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Haha. I'm not sure what some of those points in the article have to do with dating, but whatever.
The one point I do agree with is that women in DC feel their education and credentials give their attractivness a "boost." Even though few women come right out and say it, you can discern from their tone that they really think "I went to Harvard and I deserve a man who went to Harvard!" Well, the world doesn't work that way, so they need to get over it.
He's wrong about white chicks. I can't move five feet without seeing a white, Asian or South Asian cutie of slender proportions. At Whole Foods, the Post Office, Trader Joe's, Metro, Mr. Yogato, Home Depot, the E Street Cinema, the Mall, Pentagon City, you name it, there are cuties there. There's only a problem if you're into dating black chicks because there are honestly few slim ones and even fewer cute ones.
it's funny that blog complains about how white-washed and boring DC is and then turns around and whines about an over-abundance of non-white chicks.
I will say that he is somewhat correct in that the girls in DC don't spend as much time in the mirror before going out as in a lot of other major cities. And I would say DC isn't the best in the world for girls - but it's a large enough city that you'll find plenty of attractive girls if you keep looking. They just generally aren't as vapid so you have to be able to have a little more of a conversation than hot girls in other cities.
DC being one of the slimmest areas in America isn't saying much considering how fat this country is. I see so many out of shape white girls in DC it's disgusting. These incessantly political girls think their master's degrees automatically subtract 30 lbs. Sorry, it doesn't work like that.
Spend some time in Europe, particularly Eastern Europe. Lots of pretty and slim women. You only need one physical filter abroad: face. In American you have to pass face AND body. How sad is it that the hordes of chubby white girls who roam dc are considered "average". I blame these ugly political transplants from the midwest.
I SEE FAR MORE SKINNY BLACK GIRLS THAN WHITE GIRLS. (as you get older though, the black women surpass white women in mass by far)
I think the title of that guys blog should have been "DC sucks for some guys" or something like that. Face it, the DC being discussed in this article isn't everybody's cup of tea. If you are an accountant with a prestigious education and you constantly wear business casual, then DC is for you in terms of the dating scene. If you are a self employed entrepreneur or an artist who prefers to wear jeans, baseball caps and sneakers, then you will not do well socially in gentrified/yuppified DC. If you do dress casual like this on the weekends, you better have a dressed up government job during the week days to be taken seriously. Hipsters do have a little niche in DC, especially on U street, but their crowd is very cliquey, segregated and overwhelmingly White. If you are urban like a New Yorker you probably will hate DC. Most New Yorkers I've met in DC have very much acclimated to the professional vibe of the District. But this comes with the territory. DC has to be professional, corporate and career-oriented because it is the nation's capital. If Obama made a live speech from the Oval Office wearing a tilted flat billed Nationals fitted with the sticker still on it with some camo cargo shorts and some shiny Nike Foamposites propped up on the desk, who the hell would take the United States seriously?! It is the same for the citizens of professional White collar DC. Kids in the hood in DC may dress vibrant, funky and fresh but grown ups with jobs are much more conservative because their careers demand it. DC is not like Brooklyn where you have 35-50 year old men and women wearing Jordans, Pelle Pelle leathers and flat-brimmed NY Yankee fitted caps. DC is also not like Silicon Valley with lazy pot heads jumping on trampolines and playing old school arcade games at successful web firms. The professional vibe of DC definitely also dictates the dating scene and who does well and who doesn't.
And I, personally, like that. I also disagree with your assessment that you can't dress casually on the weekends. My mom is dating a guy who's quite financially successful working for a major TV network. He dresses pretty darn casually (not sweatpants and flip-flops, just cargos/jeans and a tee). My father also dresses somewhat casually. In fact, a lot of people dress pretty casually. You don't see a lot of 35-50 year olds dressed in 59Fifties and wearing Jordans because they're grown-ups. Not knocking older folks who do dress like that but, y'know, it's something that most people just grow out of if you ask me.
Overall if you cannot find a woman worth dating in DC, it's probably not how you dress or what your job is (unless you dress like a 10 year old or your job involves cleaning toilets)...
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