Second Item

The second item is the criticism I got from my last round of dating.

This is a huge issue that needs to be addressed. I was accused several times of exploiting and using men strictly for writing purposes. I really want to emphasize that this was neither my purpose, nor my intention with my blog. First and foremost I wanted to meet someone. I wouldn’t put myself out there unless I was genuinely interested in a relationship. However, in this process I realized that there were the social implications I wanted to examine through my process.  I had not privy to these facets of the dating process before I went in to do this project. I wanted to see what college dating was. I wanted to see what roles men expected women to play in dating. I wanted to determine how dating was in reality versus how the media portrays the social rite of passage. I wanted to analyze how modern communication is used in college courtship. There were several aspects of dating and the dating process I wanted to examine. I think I was really successful at this.

But I want to emphasize that I was not using men. Again, writing was secondary to my primary purpose, which was to find someone I could be in a relationship with.