Oct 28

Dating App Lets Guys Bribe Women With Jewelry, Travel or Plastic Surgery

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"You can have anyone! All you have to do is dangle the right carrot." That's the promise of a new app, Carrot Dating, which allows users to bribe potential love connections into going on dates with them. The word "bribe" might sound a little harsh, but that's actually the terminology Carrot Dating uses.

"Messaging may get her interested, but bribery will get you a date. Don't waste time contacting countless singles in hopes that one will say 'yes.' The Carrot Dating app gives you the power to date your first choice, not settle for only the ones who replied."

The bribes range anywhere from flowers to jewelry to plastic surgery. If this sounds like thinly veiled prostitution, well, bingo. Carrot Dating is presenting women as gold-digging idiots just waiting to exchange amorous meetups for Botox. If Carrot Dating's website weren't sketchy enough, there's the promo video below, which really takes it past the line of "so gross I need to shower."

Of course, the founder disagrees. In an interview with the New York Daily News, entrepreneur Brandon Wade says, "It’s like a pickup line, but more classy and interesting." And if there's one man who knows classy, it's definitely the guy who created another dating site called WhatsYourPrice.com.


    

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Oct 25

Australia Bans Ad Solely Because One Woman Pushes Another

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Australia's Ad Standards Board recently axed the TV spot below for Cougarlife.com because a scene where the voluptuous spokeswoman pushes a younger woman into a wacky pratfall was considered too violent for broadcast. As an American used to entire blocks of ads during the Super Bowl where people get hurt for no reason, I'd say they were overreacting.

Oddly, the complaint they received didn't mention violence at all. Rather, it took issue with the ad's misogynistic tone and strongly implied guarantee that cougars will have sex with you if you use that website.

"I found the ad very offensive," the consumer complaint said, "as it depicts an older women inferring that the men in the ad would be better 'taken care of' by her, rather than the younger women. It seemed to suggest that she would be a better 'mate' for the men in the ad than the younger women." But in the end, the standards board decided the comedic violence was "not justified in the context of the service being advertised." 


    

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