I don't know if I want to admit this, but it seems like a disproportionate number of profiles on OkCupid are kind of Aspergery. The reason I don't want to admit it is because I'm afraid that I'm only seeing all of those because the site's doing something with an algorithm and it's figured out that I'm one of those people.
Like this guy, who showed up in my QuickMatch game. He's holding swords in his main picture, and he has long dark hair and a goatee and his username on YouTube is "shadarko." He wears kilts and likes Discworld, and is into the whole Happy Mutant thing. There's no mention of polyamory, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's lurking in there somewhere.
Oh or how about this one, who's a Pagan! And likes Heinlein! His biography is a million pages long, he quotes Pinky and the Brain, and also wears a kilt. This one does Burning Man, likes ren-fairy things, and does stuff with Linux.
So I mean ... WTF? Am I only seeing these people because OkCupid knows something about me? Or is OkCupid attractive to them because it's all about engineery math, and they're overrunning the site?
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