Post: #1

I had a long week at work, the last few hours of which were spent with a millennial marketing chick go on ad nauseum in a husky, raspy creaky voice about how women showed to be decision makers for spending decisions in our latest market study. (It is very simple, in 21st century men are women and women are men. Sometimes it is that simple.)

So I turn on the TV to an ad for beenverified.com, a background check service. A parade of strong twenty-something American women explain why you should never date, without performing a background check on your date. Another, an evidently single, pregnant woman, how you should never have a stranger meet your family, without a background check. The background search they highlight, is of a man "Jonathan Doe".

The last case struck me. Men used to be protectors, of their women, of their families. Here men are what you need protection from. Soon men will need background checks to post on domestic dating sites, like they do now for international sites.

Not surprisingly, a little research shows, the company was founded by men, and is made up primarily of men who obviously understood their market and the opportunity.

It made me wonder, how can we put a headlight on this kind of misandry? I can't imagine an ad for a gold digger database would ever make it to TV in the U.S.

Post: #2

We should counter this with "all babies need to get paternity testing".

Post: #3

It works both ways. That company is marketing towards women, which is a wise strategy.

Way back a friend was getting on by really hot girl that came into his work. He was going for it, but felt something was off, so he had a friend in the PD run a background check. Several years prior she had racked up some prosti charges and drug related offenses. He bailed.

Women have pasts also, and from experience, it isn't always a bad idea to check them out. They won't tell you this shit until you've fallen in love and done ran off an moved in together.

As far as a chick demanding check on me? Good luck. If she's that paranoid, then I want to assume she's doing it from a guilty conscience.