Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Viral Dating: A Manifesto, Deux

Play the Viral Dating Game. Stay tuned for the rules... more like guidelines, really.

Preamble: Viral Dating is hereby founded by three women in graduate school, who--as the Bayer ad exhorts--expect wonders. We expect to find men--not boys--who are not boring, who challenge us, inspire us, and enjoy us in the fullest sense. We expect to find men who are scared by our 'high expectations,' but we have little sympathy for their fear. Face it and enter the Viral Dating challenge.

Article ONE Be it hereby understood that Viral Dating -TM refers neither to Hezbollah dating sites nor to Herpes dating sites.

Article TWO All Viral Daters shall be issued noms de guerre.

Article THREE Viral Dating is about entertaining yourself, your friends, your dates, and your lovers. Viral Daters thrive on narrative and the pill.

Article FOUR Viral Dating is not for the Faint of Heart. The Faint of Heart are hereby forewarned and forethreatened that cowardly action will result in their objectification and subjection to fantastical narrative and/or limerick-ality.

Article FIVE Viral Dating is about finding EVERYONE a date. Viral Dating is about developing options for women over the age of 25, who are smart, creative, beautiful, sexy, flawed, and funny. Viral Dating is about choice. Should your Viral Date prove attractive but piratical or fishy or motardy, then you should politely relegate your date to the Friend-Circle and move to your next Viral Option. Should the Viral Date be commandeered by someone outside of the Viral Dating Network, all Viral Daters have the obligation to expel the interloper or teach him or her the rules of the Game whereupon the interloper shall join the Friend-Circle.

Article SIX The Friend-Circle, Friends with Benefits Square, Casual Dating Diamond, and Monogamy Parallelogram constitute layers of the Viral Dating Network.

Article SEVEN Viral Dating neither entirely excludes nor requires commitment, love, or sluttiness.

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