Voices
In reality, Lulu is simply an unacceptable invasion of privacy, a
place where women believe they
are helping other women with a
user-generated reference guide
to dating, but in fact are just
perpetuating pain for the very
women they intend to protect.
Here’s how Lulu works: Through
Facebook, you can anonymously
review any and all of your male
friends in the following categories: appearance, humor, manners, sex, first kiss, ambition, and
commitment. Women contribute
valid observations — rendered,
of course, in hashtags. Then Lulu
churns out a rating. The site does
not discriminate, which means that
college-aged dating newbies making all the same mistakes we once
did are branded with titles such
as #F**kedMeChuckedMe. If this
doesn’t seem bad enough, committed faithfuls can be assessed by
the ghosts of girlfriends past with
phrases like #ForgotMyBirthday
and thrown into the same pool as
bad boys, serial daters and dumpers, aka #TotalF*ckingDickhead
#IncapableOfCommitment. This
is... #WildlyOffensive.
Let’s break it down, shall we?
If you’re single, what is the first
thing you do when you sign onto
SAM
RESSLER
HUFFINGTON
12.08.13
Lulu? FIND YOUR EX, then FIND
YOUR NEXT, correct? Step one:
opening the ex-files. I start in
chronological order (of course)
because my Type A, obsessive
personality shines through even
while experimenting on the
World Wide Web. Instinctively,
I knew my first ex-boyfriends
would hurt less than my last, so
I started there. A form of calculated self-protection, if you will.
Lulu is simply
an unacceptable invasion
of privacy, a place where
women... are just perpetuating
pain for the very women
they intend to protect.”
Reading about my high school
and college boyfriends’ dalliances
made me feel one poignant emotion: RE-MAD.
Re-Mad (adj): The ungainly
process of feeling or showing
anger all over again.
Now I’m reading about my exexes. I don’t giggle, smile or even
wince that someone thought one
#ShouldHaveComeWithAWarn-