I Just Figured Out Why Online Dating Doesn’t Work

Jennie Young
6 min readFeb 11, 2019

Basically, we’re doing it wrong. We’re all being selfish.

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For my day job, I analyze rhetoric. I even wrote a textbook on “critical discourse analysis,” and if you don’t think THAT’s a great topic for chatting up the guys on eHarmony, well . . . you’d be correct.

I signed up more out of curiosity than anything else; it was 50% peer pressure from my…

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Jennie Young

Professor and humor writer in Green Bay. McSweeney’s, The Independent, HuffPost, Ms. Mag, Education Week, Inside Higher Ed, Slackjaw, Weekly Humorist, others.