Comments on: Single Life: The Romantic’s View

By: Mary-Celeste

Mary-Celeste — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:28:01 +0000

My graph looks a bit more like a lumpy oval than an infinity sign . . .

By: Not First

Not First — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:15:53 +0000

Oh, and Not First!

By: Deuce

Deuce — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:13:08 +0000

Well we can’t all have a life as miserable as yours

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:01:19 +0000

Alternatvely, you could go with “people” – members of the wrong sex for a given romantic’s inclinations would just fall into the category of “people attracted to me” but outside of the category of “people I’m attracted to” (this diagram ignores mutual *lack* of attraction).

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:02:16 +0000

It’d be the story of my life if it were men instead of women -_-;

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:29:05 +0000

Never has a more accurate graph been shown – story of my life!

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:27:03 +0000

My left one is far bigger than my right one sadly. I’m mismatched. lol

By: braveman7

braveman7 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:44:25 +0000

If we would educate our selves to gender differences we mite get along better. Abandoning Gender Competition for Companionship.
Abandoning Independence for Dependency.
Abandoning Liberation for Obligation.
Abandoning Privacy for Intimacy.
Abandoning Role Equality for Special consideration.
http://www.SacredWarrior.org

By: Scot Z

Scot Z — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:00:34 +0000

Maybe they should have just said “people of the opposite sex” instead of “women” or “men.” Granted, that wording does exclude gays, but…
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Anyway, best submission I’ve seen here in quite a while.

By: vervain

vervain — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:42:47 +0000

And the ones that are both interesting AND attractive are either married, or not attracted to me. *doublesigh*

By: vervain

vervain — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:39:53 +0000

So very true, and so very frustrating. I always seem to attract either interesting but unattractive people, or attractive people that are completely boring. *sigh*

By: Miranda

Miranda — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:01:10 +0000

The guys I know like this have way too high standards… Like they’re the McLovin guy from SuperBad chasing Megan Fox.

By: jack mehoff

jack mehoff — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:14:41 +0000

I bet your “portion” is small.

Try to have a little fun.

By: Sesoron

Sesoron — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:04:51 +0000

It would be funnier and probably more accurate if the “Women Attracted to Me” circle were extremely tiny compared to the “Women I’m Attracted to” one. On the other hand, it would be accurate if there were a third circle indicating “Women I’ve Met”, and there were a categorical syllogism to go along with it. E.g.:

All women I’m attracted to are women I’ve met.
No women attracted to me are women I’ve met.
Therefore, no women I’m attracted to are women attracted to me.

According to a Boolean interpretation, it’s not necessary that there are any women attracted to me, though according to Aristotle, there must be at least one.

Logic jokes! Heavy on the logic, light on the joke!

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:46:31 +0000

small typo the word women should be the singular woman

By: Chels

Chels — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:34:29 +0000

oh, and *sad face*

sorry attractive women aren’t attracted to you.

By: Chels

Chels — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:33:09 +0000

yeah!

By: Sige

Sige — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:12:58 +0000

But since we’re not technically creating a list here, the size of the overlap should be the best indicator of proportion, don’t you think?

By: Jenessa

Jenessa — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:37:15 +0000

ditto! This graph spoke to me haha

By: Eddy

Eddy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:46:24 +0000

Or just the other kind of cleavage.

By: copernilleo

copernilleo — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:37:20 +0000

So, instead of the answer lying in the cleavage, it lies…elsewhere!

By: brinnann

brinnann — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:13:22 +0000

It seems relevant to me if viewed by proportion, not actual figures.

By: brinnann

brinnann — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:12:01 +0000

Replace “Women” with “Men” and that is totally me.

By: AxelTheDragon

AxelTheDragon — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:09:54 +0000

Why must people ruin the fun? I mean, who cares if we don’t use them right, as long as you get the point? >_>

By: Darawnal

Darawnal — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:48:56 +0000

How true

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:36:06 +0000

You know, your rant is the only reference to the size of the overlap section. The graph in no way implies that that portion is small on purpose. Maybe that’s just the way it was drawn.

Presumption fail.

By: Lolnathan

Lolnathan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:27:18 +0000

When will someone get these things right? The amount of overlap is irrelevant, these diagrams are relational and do not represent a specific unit or number. Making the overlap super tiny doesn’t make the group smaller, since these diagrams so not specify any number of range of numbers.

Anyway, rant off.