Comments on: Mofo and Other Mysteries http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/mofo-and-other-mysteries/ The Official Blog of OkCupid.com Wed, 08 Jul 2015 08:59:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.5 By: Kimbolita http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/mofo-and-other-mysteries/comment-page-3/#comment-23962 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 06:59:07 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=1087#comment-23962 Given the focus on bullying and suicide in recent weeks, I think the suicide stats are really interesting. They support the anecdotal evidence that our society has a problem.

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By: Sarah http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/mofo-and-other-mysteries/comment-page-3/#comment-9969 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:18:05 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=1087#comment-9969 Christian – please add the terms heteroflexible and homoflexible to your sexual orientation multiple choice. You’ll find that most of the women calling themselves bi really mean heteroflexible. They’re totally up for hooking up with a woman, but have no intention of getting into a serious same-sex relationship, and certainly aren’t actively looking for one.

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By: rytger http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/mofo-and-other-mysteries/comment-page-3/#comment-9169 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:15:55 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=1087#comment-9169 Some stats from the real world:

•Women attempt suicide three times as much as men.
•The higher rate of attempted suicide in women is attributed to the elevated rate of mood disorders among females, such as major depression, dysthymia and seasonal affective disorder.
•Although women attempt suicide more often, men complete suicide at a rate four times that of women.
•More women than men report a history of attempted suicide, with a gender ratio of 2:1.

http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewpage&page_id=04ECB949-C3D9-5FFA-DA9C65C381BAAEC0

Simply put; a “real man” takes pride in being reliable, not complaining and doing things properly.

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By: ann http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/mofo-and-other-mysteries/comment-page-3/#comment-7857 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:32:46 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=1087#comment-7857 Another note on the strap-on issue is that sure, some women would like the dual-penetration experience with a guy, and some bi women are answering from the point of view of having a woman partner, but some of us are also dealing with severe premature ejaculators. If they’d deal with their problem in a practical way, like with a dildo, we could keep having sex with them, but this is as rare as you might imagine. Whereas p.e. is unfortunately common enough.

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By: Alex http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/mofo-and-other-mysteries/comment-page-3/#comment-7387 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:39:46 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=1087#comment-7387 The reason gay men claim to not know what ‘mofo’ is, is simple: they suspect you might be talking about some obscure sex act, not the inanely common curseword. Well, all 20 of them.

The strap-on thing is easy to explain, too. For women: A third of women on this site seem to be willing to publically label themselves ‘bi’. (Shouldn’t that itself be some incredible statistic?). Your data simply suggests that many women who would like to be shagged by another woman don’t want to publically call themselves ‘bi’. No mystery there. For men: why exactly should everyone get to enjoy anal except straight men? Well? You don’t find your reaction to be sexist or homophobic or something?

And finally the suicide thing: Ok. Look. When a third of women are calling themselves bi, you can no longer say they are some “marginalized group” that are being driven into depression by homophobia. No, not when a third of all women do it. There must be some OTHER driving force that correlates suicidal tendency and non-traditional sexual self-identification. (This is actually an interesting and important result in its own right.)

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By: Carmi Turchick http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/mofo-and-other-mysteries/comment-page-3/#comment-7000 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:30:16 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=1087#comment-7000 While it is obvious that tall men have dating advantages over short men in terms of popularity. I am wondering if there has been any comparison between Canada and the USA on this. As I am 5’4″ and found my wife living happily in Canada, I have a personal interest. I also feel from personal observation that I see a lot more short men around here happily trotting alongside their wives and girlfriends than I was used to seeing in the States.

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By: Laura Hawley http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/mofo-and-other-mysteries/comment-page-3/#comment-6886 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:04:33 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=1087#comment-6886 I think it is amazing that you blithely report the higher suicidal tendencies of everyone besides straight men, and yet use only heterosexual examples in other posts, e.g. when describing response rates or racial issues.

While your omission is far from inspiring anyone to want to kill themselves, it is supremely typical. And it illustrates a world in which the inclusion of non-heterosexual people is always just optional.
So there.

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By: rev0lution1776 http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/mofo-and-other-mysteries/comment-page-3/#comment-6496 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:24:00 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=1087#comment-6496 Christian-

I love your blog. Taking touchy-feely things and breaking them down into analyzable data points.

Will you please cover the What’s Your Dating Persona test and break it down by overall percentages (I swear there are so many Vapor Trails, male and female – and how many Last Men on Earth will there be?) and also do a breakdown of each persona across states? God, you know all the flakes will be in California. There, I said it. I live in SoCal. I should know.

And the Last Men on Earth are probably more common in Texas. Just judging from the foot-in-mouth ego problems of so many public male figures from there. No wait – maybe it’s the Dakotas? Sheep outnumber women 26-1 or something? No way to learn those sozial skillz?

See, I’m dying to know!

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By: lucernea2 http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/mofo-and-other-mysteries/comment-page-3/#comment-6344 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:35:21 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=1087#comment-6344 OkC users may be a skewed portion of the population, ie. not representative of normal averages.

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By: jane http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/mofo-and-other-mysteries/comment-page-2/#comment-6303 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:40:48 +0000 http://blog.okcupid.com/?p=1087#comment-6303 New Mexico is mostly desert, which made it perfect for nuclear weapons testing back in the day. There was a huge influx of brilliant physicists and scientists who brought their families with them, settling in long-term. It’s still perfect for testing awesome scientific stuff, weapons or not. The population of national labs and universities relative to the low population of the state therefore likely contributes to it’s high percentage of “genius” individuals.

I wish I worked at Los Alamos.

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