Getting Laid: It’s Only An iPhone App Away!
Posted by: Jessica Wakeman
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guys, video
4:10PM, Tuesday October 13th 2009
Ladies: beware of gentlemen furiously checking their iPhones with suspiciously thorough knowledge about the early ‘90s punk scene. Pepsico’s energy drink company AMP UP is hawking a free app that feeds men lines based on a woman’s interests, like whether she’s a “treehugger” or a “goth.” The Before You Score app proclaims to help dudes demystify 24 “types” of our confounding species, including flattering ones like “cougar,” “rebound girl,” “princess,” “nerd” and “out of your league.”
Guys? If you need to consult your iPhone so you can talk to us and/or fake an interest in politics or the environment in order to be interesting, you’re out of our league already.
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Al D
wrote on October 13 2009 @ 03:16 pm: [report]
Probably not one I’ll choose to share on #favapptuesday LOL.
HermannM
wrote on October 13 2009 @ 03:51 pm: [report]
Let’s face it! Men don’t know how to talk to women and women don’t know how to talk to men. We grew up on video games and pocket devices. As a result, nobody knows how to break the ice with a stranger, how to flirt or how to respond. In high school, it was easy to “hook up” because “friends with benefits” was the social norm. But now that we are in the real world, that “ish” doesn’t work. I applaud Pepsi for realizing that men need help.
I am a little bit older and I still need help… with my WIFE! It was just a few weeks ago that I counseled a soon-to-be-engaged college buddy to get a manual from his girlfriend before popping the question. Why, because we can’t read your minds and we desperately want to know what you mean when you say this, versus what you mean when you do that. Mystery is overrated. It was cute when Rosie Perez told Woody Harrelson in “White Men Can’t Jump” that “Yes means No” & “No means Yes” and “sometimes Yes means Maybe” but that was a movie. In real life, indecision, mystery, hypocrisy are not attractive qualities. So here we are. Men don’t understand women and you don’t help us. So we have to find other means.
When we resort to an external aid, it is a last resort, trust me. It happens because women have told us that we are not enough. What men want is to be accepted “as is.” Maybe there’s an app for that but we’d rather get it from a woman.
amandabear
wrote on October 13 2009 @ 03:56 pm: [report]
I actually think this is more amusing than insulting in any way. I’d like to see one for the ladies, as a counterpoint.
impoddity
wrote on October 13 2009 @ 06:46 pm: [report]
@amandabear: I was getting ready to mount the soapbox, but you have a point. If there was a version for men, I might be less offended. Might.
ootie grl
wrote on October 21 2009 @ 02:32 pm: [report]
I didnt think we were that hard to talk to. Now theres apps to help guys get into a girls pants? creepy