{"id":1316,"date":"2005-05-25T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2005-05-25T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T04:08:00","slug":"gay-millionaires-club-youve-got-to-be-shitting-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Gay Millionaires Club?  You&#8217;ve got to be shitting me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more So I got this ridiculous email...-->(links added) <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Good Evening ~<br \/>\nI am a recruiter for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vxopartners.com\/\">VXO Partners<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaymillionairesclub.com\/\">The Gay Millionaires Club<\/a>. I am currently searching for young, hot, and sexy local Minnesota men (aren&#8217;t we all) between the ages of 20-40ish who would like to date a millionaire. After reviewing your profile on gardarguys.com, I feel that you would be a good match for the millionaires I represent.  If you are interested in this opportunity, please email me at mn_gwm@comcast.net.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to hear from you soon,<br \/>\nMichael Donivan<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________________________<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/gaydar.co.uk\/mn_gwm<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU REPLY TO THIS EMAIL &#8211; PLEASE REMOVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IF YOU WANT IT TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS!<\/p>\n<p>If this is not your type of person, rather than not responding, and getting more emails, click on the link below to send them an automated message from gaydar saying that they are not your type.<\/p>\n<p>[redacted]<\/p>\n<p>Thank You for using Gaydar<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m tempted to send an email that just says &#8220;you have got to be shitting me.&#8221;  But this is fucking hilarious, in that laughing at\/crying at sort of way.  For example:  &#8220;Many of us are taught to define ourselves by our success. We grow up striving for a good life, working hard to build a secure future. Before you know it, we lose focus on the things that really matter in our lives. Anyone will tell you that success is empty without someone to share it with. Choosing between a  BMW Z4 or an SL500 Mercedes isn&#8217;t the most important decision you will ever make in your life! <b>The most important decision you <i>will<\/i> make is in choosing someone with whom to share your life.<\/b> The philosophy behind Gay Millionaires Club is to provide you with the resources to be successful in finding your life partner.&#8221;  (bolding added, italicization original, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaymillionairesclub.com\/Mainpage.html\">source<\/a>).  <\/p>\n<p>Besides being banal, this is only slightly less offensive than the 1950&#8217;s guide to housewifery I posted a few pages back.  Consider some poor homo who stumbled into money, whether he thinks he got there on merit or not.  So compound typical homo isolation with fear of people associating with you for no other reason than sucking down a bit of your green.  Throw on top of that the more open weirdness you&#8217;re going to get for being rich from honest people who have money issues.  Now have someone with a slick marketing campaign promising a faithful loved one, where they find said loved one by trolling the online gay personals scene using &#8220;millionaire&#8221; as bait.  Lovely.  Sure aren&#8217;t going to find any gold diggers that way.  But what have these guys got to lose?  Spend 10k on a shot?  Probably a tiny fraction of your stock portfolio, and who knows, it might pan out.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this gem: &#8220;Preparing You Both for the Introduction: Most men have plenty of dating experience, but are not always the best at creating the right atmosphere, choosing appropriate conversation topics for a first date, or even making a good first impression. For that reason, we coordinate the actual meeting in order to help both of you to present yourselves in the best and most positive manner. In fact, one of the most important and satisfying aspects of VXO\u2019s endeavors is the opportunity to coach our Clients and Applicants on the aspects of dating that will return the very best results.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/vxopartners.com\/_method.php\">source<\/a>).  <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not really good at dating, and neither is the guy we&#8217;re going to introduce you to, so we&#8217;ll carefully script your initial encounter, to achieve an optimal outcome.  Where optimality isn&#8217;t clearly defined.  Happily ever after?  Mindblowing sex?  Happily ever after with a continuous stream of mindblowing sex?  God forbid, personal growth?<\/p>\n<p>And yet, it was compelling enough for me to write a post on it.  Heh.  Brother, can you spare a dollar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}