I’m impressed by how many TV commercials I watch for
companionship services (I’m trying to avoid saying ‘meat market dating
operations’) with my favorite one, perhaps because of my Catholic School
upbringing being Christian Mingle. I still think their tagline
should be ‘The Lord Wants You to Get Your Freak On.’ I think that says ‘seal the deal for real’ in a
way their audience can better understand.
There’s an ad for Zoosk that has something about “first it begins
with like” which does a nice job of lowering the bar for expectations, and has
probably done wonder for sales of smoke
alarm batteries and dish towels, too (I suspect).
We’re a species cursed/blessed with a burning desire for
a pairing and sharing with some oft-unspoken hope that Sweet
Dreams Are Made of This to the point that in our search to avoid
being alone with ourselves we welcome advice and relationship tips from any
source, even if (as you’ll see in the
clip) those undertaking such actions are not sanguine of a Happy
Ending.
I’m not sure what the first woman, “a loyal Cosmo reader since
I was a child” was doing with the magazine when she was a child (I hope NOT reading it for the articles), but
as a guy who was the second of the two people in his (still) current
relationship to realize he had found something special, I’m here to tell any
and all women a week away from Valentine’s Day that us guys are stunningly
simple creatures who have little to no comprehension (and less appreciation) of
context, pretext or subtext.
Whether you are still searching or desperately seeking,
all the services and the glitzy magazines add up to nothing when eyes meet and
smiles are shared. One lifetime or one
night, the depth of passion is the same, it’s the degree of
commitment that shifts.
-bill kenny
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