There are plenty of women in this thread saying the purpose of the site is to meet up fiarly quickly after exchanging messages. So the idea that simply asking to meet up quickly is some objective measure of creepiness is just plain wrong.

She's just trying to justify a complete double standard. Trolling women is bad because you're toying with real people with emotions. Troling guys is okay because....they aren't real people with emotions?

Due process is one of the most fundamental tenets of our entire system of government, and one of the bases upon which we consdier ourselves a free country. We've never been perfect at it, and for a couple centuries we pretty much sucked at it, but you cannot truly have a free society without it.

Oh I agree wholeheartedly. He's trying characterize his trolling as some faux intellectual exercise. Are there shallow and stupid women out there? Sure. But that's not an interesting conclusion, nor does it require any special experiement to reveal.

He does sound like a douche. But still, I think the principle of better to be single than to settle applies.

Yeah, that's pretty much it. And if you don't get a response it's tough to know why. Not that it matters, because sending follow ups is never really a good idea. Some guys then just resort to sending messages to any and everyone. I was never able to bring myself to that approach, a mixture of being picky and just not…

But women don't want to be picked up in libraries, or anywhere else they aren't engaged in social activities where approaching people is okay. At least, that's what we hear constantly.

Which is idiotic for a variety of reasons. But it effectively amounts to stealing from the taxpayers, because what the Federal government would prefer to do with that equipment is sell it to foreign governments. At least then there would be some return on the investment in purchasing the stuff.

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You made a claim, and you can't back it up, and then you peddle even more conspiracy theory nonsense. Plus, you haven't a clue what Snowden showed. Just....stop, you're not helping, it's just tea party nuttery.

Once there is a remote kill switch available, both the Feds and the locals will have access to it.

Local police force =/= Federal govt. In fact the administration has come out in opposition to what the Ferguson police have been doing.

No conspiracy theorist. You are wrong, and not helping.

Actually, this is literally the same equipment the military had in Afghanistan. That's where this stuff comes from, excess military items the DoD is REQUIRED by law to make available to local police forces that request it.

Yeah, was just going to say the same thing. And the responses were all making fun of the guys that were being trolled, not the person trolling. So I don't see any reason to call out this guy for particular criticism just because now it's a dude.

So vote Sarah Palin into high office because...we need more women in X?

Well, can't argue with that!

Fanatical ideologues don't care much for details. Hell, remember SENATOR (former, thankfully) Jon Kyl's comment that abortion services are "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthoiod does."?

Good for you. Protect yourself, and others, against these stalkers.

But they just want to have a quiet conversation!

They're denigrated by women, and beaten up by catcalling jerks. He did the right thing, absolutely, and he deserves a speedy recovery, but it's little wonder why we don't see more of that kind of behavior.This is the positive side of masculinity, and yet some would see it done away with too.