Meet Brandon of Sugarland, Texas. According to one of his ex-girlfriends, Brandon is as gay as the day is long but pretends to be straight. She (or he) said, “Brandon just goes out with women to pretend to be straight, but … he enjoys gay sex more.”
Then there is Charles of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. According to his ex, “not only is he married (for the third time) and has two kids, but he even cheats on the girls he’s cheating on his wife with.”
Then there are the two profiles of Cody and Cory of Houston, bisexual twins, each married with children, who enjoy “double-teaming it to score hot women” at the corner bar.
These descriptions of men exist on a Web site designed to alert women to men who are cheaters. The cheaters, the married men, the closeted homosexuals and the pornography addicts who unsuspecting women are dating are all represented on this site.
Dontdatehimgirl.com and its sister site, Manhaters.com (which was recently changed to Womansavers.com), allow women to publicly tattle on the men who have been unfaithful to them in the past, so that other women can avoid potential misery due to the man’s supposed infidelity. Both sites make it simple for a woman to search for the intimate details about a man she is dating that he won’t `fess up to.
Womansavers.com’s motto is, “We don’t hate all men, just the jerks” and depicts a girl with dark hair and huge breasts in a tight red dress holding a pitchfork with horns sprouting from her head.
Tasha Joseph is the creator and founder of Dontdatehimgirl.com. A former journalist, she’s now a public relations specialist in Miami. The idea for the site started when she wrote a column for the Miami Herald, titled “Class Action for over Seven Years,” about the woes of dating a man who was unfaithful to her for the entirety of their relationship.
Her girlfriends’ constant battles with cheating boyfriends prompted her to start the site. She was sick of hearing them rant about how they had been betrayed and decided to do something about it.
Dontdatehimgirl.com currently has 170,000 registered women members and receives more than 250,000 hits a day on more than 3,000 profiles of cheating and unworthy men, according to a recent New York Times article. Anyone can post anything about any other person, it’s free and there are no restrictions against it.
Womansavers.com allows women to fill out a questionnaire concerning every detail related to a “jerk.” Anything from how much money he makes, to whom he’s had sex with and even how he performs in bed are all answered with the click of a mouse. The men are rated on a scale of 0 to 200, 0 being the scum of the Earth and 200 being God’s gift to women.
On the up side, the site also offers helpful articles and tips on what to do if your guy is cheating and what the warning signs are of a cheating partner.
These sites have infuriated men all over the country. Whether the men posted are guilty or innocent of the dating crimes described against them, they have declared the Web site biased and cry that the site borders on defamation and libel.
One man, who has remained anonymous, has even begun his own site dedicated to a class action suit against Dontdatehimgirl.com at www.classaction-dontdatehimgirl.com. The site’s mission statement is “… If the target was your father, your mother, your sister, your brother, your friend, your coworker, your husband, your wife, your lover and the words were being spread not in a legal trial, but in a public display of hatred how would you feel? If someone’s life was damaged by slander what could be done about it?”
According to Joseph of Dontdatehimgirl.com, no formal suit has been filed yet. ow can these But the attacks have caused Joseph to begin work on a companion site to Dontdatehimgirl.com, which will allow men to rat out their cheating wives or girlfriends. The site is still in production.
With the rise of online dating sites such as eHarmony and Match.com, Dontdatehimgirl.com and Womansavers.com might be the beginning of a new way to aid dating in the 21st century.
Nicole Wroten can be reached at [email protected].