How to Write a Great Dating Profile

People often feel the need to present a more perfect, polished, gleaming version of themselves. But the strongest profiles are the ones that effectively express a true, distinctive aspect of self, of personality, of character. Ultimately you want to meet someone who likes the actual you, not an idealized, airbrushed, people-pleasing version. The awfulness of writing a dating profile is the awkwardness of selling yourself, but what if you just try to be descriptive?

Women sometimes aim to cater to a generalized male fantasy of the cool girl—a beer-drinking, pool-playing, sports-watching, back-of-a-motorcycle type who just wants to “see where things go.” If that is you, fine. But if not, this kind of fakeness won’t necessarily attract the person you want to attract.

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