Moreover, the Jewish women whose profiles I saw there were ” Jewish but not serious about it ” and were not interested in me either, because quite honestly anybody who is Jewish but not serious about it will date anybody anyway, Jewish or not.

The site is no different in that sense than plentyofish.com

If that were so, shouldn’t he have written: “את תמיד מפרגנת”?

The guy could simply mean he’s looking for someone who is not indifferent, or hostile, to things that are important to him, but are uninteresting to her.

And, why assume it’s intended to be one-sided?

“One other thing that I hate is when a guy writes: ‘if you are looking for a good time, write to me’ Seriously??? Why would I be looking for a bad time?”

Maybe you don’t know what he has in mind!

From Press Gang’s “Something Terrible”( Part 1):

Lynda [to Spike, on the window ledge]: Spike, this is stupid. You could have an accident.
Spike: I’ll be okay.
Lynda: You don’t know what I have in mind.

Another form of your no. 6, that I find off-putting, is the filling out of a section of the profile, only to evade the question one’s asked to answer, like: claiming inability to be summarized( or, summarize one’s life) in the self-summary section, claiming that the list of favorite books, movies, food, etc., is too long or varied to mention( or even select from), claiming that there’s no such thing as a typical Friday night, or my personal “favorite”, saying that the most private thing one is willing to admit wouldn’t be private anymore if they admitted it. My response to those would be: If you have nothing to fill in, leave that section blank.( I would!)

My additions to the list, though not written gems per se, would be: (a) thinking it’s so l33t to add C++ to the languages one speaks( OkCupid even enables this, by making it selectable in the profile settings), and fluently at that, and (b) claiming to be fluent in English and then writing a profile that proves otherwise( referring to ‘life’ in the plural, confusing ‘in’ and ‘at’, and, my personal favorite, is the girl who wrote about wanting to “steal a bank”).

I’d like to defend no. 2, in your list( though I’ve never used it myself: most people who know me don’t find me funny, at least not when I’m trying to be): It could be that what they’re actually trying to say, rather clumsily, is that they have a sense of humor( and what girl doesn’t want that in their guy?), but can be serious, when needed( you wouldn’t want someone reckless, who thinks everything is a joke, who can’t hold down a job, or be serious enough towards his relationship with his significant other, now, would you?).

By the way, I am tall( compared to my mom, and others, who are 5’2″), but short( compared to most basketball players).

I honestly think that it’s extremely difficult to write about yourself. I just had to write a short bio about myself and I was like, “I’m a… girl. The end.” :)

The first is that most people do not really know themselves. Self-reflection requires more than average intelligence, which by definition is uncommon. It is also is greatly aided by having a strong humanities education, which is practically nonexistent these days. (*)

The second issue is that, as Don Colacho observed, “Allusion is the only way to express what is intimate without distorting it.”

(*) By the way, I do believe that men are more likely to have somewhat more self-knowledge than women, for two reasons: first, the distribution of intelligence (as well as a wide variety of behavioral and personality traits) is less evenly distributed in men than in women, meaning there are more men who are significantly more intelligent; and second, most men must use their personalities to attract women, while most women do not need this.