More online dating

It's been a while since I posted. Feeling a bit bored so thought I would text a little.
More observations from online dating.
-nurses and teachers are majority share of users. I can count on one hand the number of engineers I have come across.
-women will never make the first move. Even on Bumble, which makes the app pointless.
-lots of women have climbed Mt Kilamanjaro. They have a picture of the same sign in their profile. Why is this?
-nobody mentions sex. Very few mention family goals aside from a checkbox.
-an alarming number of accounts are either blank, one line, have one picture, etc. You are not going to get any interest from people interested in a substantive relationship that way.
-girls dressed in...revealing outfits all say they want serious relationships and know what they want. I am highly doubtful of that.
-an alarming number of large women list active lifestyle and healthy eating in their profiles. I think my definition of those must be wrong then. Or if you have a medical condition just talk about it.

As I have said before: all of these apps are based completely around aesthetics. If you are not comfortable with that then go back to the real world. I'm not real happy about it(since I'm not one of the beautiful people) but I am desperately enough to try it out obviously.

Another major gripe of mine is the lack of activity. If I send you a message via one of these aps do me a favor: either respond or block me or something. I have hundreds of single messages sitting in my outbox. Match.com actually shows if they have been read or not and most of them have been. Still no response. Just stupid.

Dating in the age of idiocracy.

Okay, this is a gripe post, sorry in advance if you couldn't care less. :)

So I am on this dating app (yeah yeah, there is not enough cold beer in front of me right now to talk about that) and its really starting to bug me.

Dear single women of the internet:
I understand that you are smart, witty, sarcastic, love dogs, love cats, love tacos, do yoga, run marathons, and love to travel. Would it bother you so much to reply to an email or message? I would like to point out that YOU created your profile, maybe uploaded some pictures, maybe filled out some little bio fields, this implies that you are interested in communicating with potential suitors via said app.
So far the only messages *I* have received have been something along the lines of "hey" which I am unlikely to respond to because there is no actual message; just one word. The messages I send out to attractive ladies read something along the lines of "Hi YourNameHere! I love your #puglife christmas sweater, lol. What make you decide to move back to MN?"
I addressed my subject, I paid a compliment, and I asked a question. How does that not warrant a response? Even "push off ya knob!" would at least be A response and I wouldn't send you any more.

The second situation I have noticed is on the Bumble app. This is the app where you both have to "like" each other, and then the female has to message first. I like this idea, because it is non-traditional and the woman actually has to put some sort of effort in up front as well. BUT the problem I am seeing as I swipe through profiles is the number of profiles that say something to the effect of: "...But I am pretty shy so you'll have to make the first contact." What!? The first problem here is that the man CANNOT message you first. The second problem is why are you on Bumble if you don't want to make the initial contact?? That's the whole premise of the app! Go back to OKC, PoF, Match or real life if you don't want to make contact. sheesh.

Also, please dont consider me shallow since I am basing swipes off of 95% aesthetics, its the nature of these apps, and likely human nature as well. I'm just playing along at this point.

Okay, time for a beer. Enough rambling.