D.C. Power Players Are Paying Thousands of Dollars to Find Dates

Inside the expensive, awkward, and sometimes even romantic world of matchmaking DC’s elite.

What’s funny to the matchmakers is how often these wish lists fail to produce the match their clients desire. “It’s through a lot of conversations and setting them up on dates with people who went to Harvard and are six feet tall — and then they go out, and it’s an OK date, but it doesn’t work out,” said Bernstein, that clients learn to keep a more open mind. “People get so focused on what they think they need, or what society tells them they need for a ‘successful’ relationship, they lose a bit of their own identity.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5139317&forum_id=2#44742956)

nowadays "online" dating is just preemptively vetting each other on late stage social media before meeting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5139317&forum_id=2#44744438)

each ticket is like a week’s worth of take-home pay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5139317&forum_id=2#44746235)

a retarded LA fag thinks his love is waiting for him in DC

unreal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5139317&forum_id=2#44746236)

1) you don’t plan to see each other again: you get the check cuz you don’t want her telling people that you’re cheap

2) she’s a bit of a shrew and insisting: you get the check no matter what and she gets pwned. you may or may not see each other again

3) you’re interested and she’s not even gonna consider another date if you let her pay

zero benefit from letting her pay other than saving $200 and you will likely have bigger problems if you do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5139317&forum_id=2#44746240)

What a great week of poasting that was

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5139317&forum_id=2#44744664)

It then turned out that she had self-published two memoirs by the age of 25, despite having achieved nothing more than buying a co-op in DC. One of them I remember was called 'Type A+' and was complete cringe (at least just the free chapter that is/was available on Amazon). And through it all she acted like she was totally above the criticism, even declaring that her book sales had increased 16-fold, which was commonly understood to mean that she had only sold 1 book prior to the brou-ha.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5139317&forum_id=2#44746834)

I had to check the op date and time because I thought maybe someone bumped a thread from 2012

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5139317&forum_id=2#44746861)

I think she saw the thread and responded on twitter. I think there were also some articles written, probably after it exploded on reddit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5139317&forum_id=2#44747832)

Anybody have the thread about her?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5139317&forum_id=2#44746914)

The other subtext of the piece is that the quality of men is not exactly up to the standards of the female clientele. Hence having to hand out cards to good looking guys at bars, practically begging them to join. All of these unmarried 30+ shrews asking to be set up with 6’ chadly Ivy grads. Um yeah have you spent time in DC and seen what the guys are like? There’s a reason why they keep hammering the point that if women want decent looking guys they need to look south of the Potomac.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5139317&forum_id=2#44748247)

supply of 6’+ men who meet the almighty checklist is going to approach zero as prole-to-middle-class-born white males are increasingly shut out of elite institutions, to say nothing of the slight issues of male preference and the supply of younger women replenishing yearly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5139317&forum_id=2#44752242)