Hey, folks, check this out. Ashley Madison was nothing but a scam, offering to millions of sad, lonely men an illusion that they might be wanted. In reality, though, there was barely a handful of women even registered (let alone answering messages) on the site.
Here is the ratio of male-to-female participation:
Twenty million to less than fifteen hundred. This makes the “affair guarantee” sold by the website especially hilarious. It works precisely like the oldest con in the world where the shaman would guess the sex of your future baby, promising a full refund in case of a mistaken guess.
The question arises, then, how these 20 million suckers were duped into believing there were women on the website. Here’s the answer:
Ashley Madison employees did a pretty decent job making their millions of women’s accounts look alive.
Read all the sordid details here.
Of course, if the 20 000 000 male users of the website strained their non-existent intellects the tiniest little bit, they’d know that these female accounts were all fake. Women don’t need to pay for sex. It’s easily available to them in amounts that are excessive even to the most sexually voracious.
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Imagine: 20 million poor sods sitting there, all alone, paying for the fantasy that women exist who might want them.
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Incredible. I kind of thought it would be skewed, but this utterly outdoes my imagination. My god there are a lot of miserable men in the world.
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Male emotional alienation and pain – Hilarious!
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Life is so unfair! No justice in the world, at all.
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LOL!!!! This is by far the the most hilarious piece of news I’ve read all day!
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Well, Clarissa, you’re familiar with that famous quote attributed to Nineteenth Century American showman/huckster extraordinaire B.T. Barnum, aren’t you?
Still true today, a century and a half later.
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All I know about him is that he invented the expression “rain check.” But that doesn’t seem to apply.
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There’s a sucker born every minute.
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Ah! Very true.
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Huh? I was only barely aware of what AM was and had assumed it was a clearing house for some kind of prostitution – maybe more delicately labelled as mistresses.
It never would have occurred to me that women looking for emotional or sexual affairs would use a site like that. Women who cheat in traditional US culture wait to get attracted to some guy in their surroundings first so they can rationalize it away with ‘it just happened’ or ‘we got carried away’.
That made me wonder why no prostitutes were using it so I looked at the link and it turns out it was a “this way to the egress” con.*
*details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum's_American_Museum
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Why were there so few prostitutes on Ashley Madison?
I’m pretty sure women looking to have an affair would not be on a site set up for blackmail. You sign up and then pay a removal fee? Right. If you just set it up for fantasy browsing there are better online sites available.
I suppose the men on Ashley Madison would have wanted the GFE without actually paying for the GFE and would want the other cheater to monogamously cheat with only them.
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What’s GFE?
I really suck at acronyms.
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Girl Friend Experience – apparently many men who frequent prostitutes want prostitutes who will act like their girl friend for at least a few hours at a time.
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Jesus. Poor schmucks.
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There was even a movie by this name …
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-girlfriend-experience-2009
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Still has real world effects. From an advice column:
“I’m home for the summer from college and will go back in a few weeks. I have two little sisters and an older brother who lives across the country. I’ve always thought my parents had a great marriage, but last week I came home to find my dad tossing my mom around the living room. He found her email address on Ashley Madison, confronted her, learned about affairs, and went berserk.”
And the response:
“Sometimes, though, forgiveness is about big stuff and that’s when it’s a hard thing and, consequently, that’s when it’s a meaningful and potentially transformative thing.”
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/08/26/22765865/savage-love-letter-of-the-day-forgiveness-and-ashley-madisons-innocent-victims
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The letter sounds completely fake. And the advice is absolutely terrible. There is no way the child should be mediating between the parents, asking questions, getting assurances, etc. I’d suggest interrupting all contact with both of them for several months. It is deeply unhealthy for a child to be an active participant in their marital games.
My cousin was in such a situation and tried to defend Mommy from abusive Daddy. The cousin eventually ended up in a clinic, with his entire right half of the body paralyzed as a result of extreme stress. And Mommy went back to the abusive Daddy, happy as a clam.
Every child who has had to witness parents abusing each other should remember this: don’t engage, don’t try to “save” them, don’t try to parent them, do everything you can to remove yourself from the situation physically and disengage emotionally. The games they play are not your business.
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\ Imagine: 20 million poor sods sitting there, all alone, paying for the fantasy that women exist who might want them.
I am sure that after a short while only men interested in the fantasy of cheating rather than its actuality would remain on the site. After all, actual cheating is harder (demands finding time, escaping notice of family members, etc) and may be less satisfactory than fantasies in which one may imagine exactly what one wants to. Dealing with real women on the site would’ve been a minus.
This fantasy browsing made me think of being in some kind of a computer game. Not the one with shooting, but exploring magical universe kind of a game.
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