By By Martini Amour
Remember that one relationship or member of the opposite sex who made your life miserable? You know, the one that cheated on you for years, made your sex life public, or was sleeping with your roommate the entire time you were dating. Unfortunately, most of us don’t ever achieve true closure.
However, some women think they have found the answer to making their former partners feel the impact of karma a little bit sooner than naturally intended.
Tasha Joseph, a 30-year-old Miami publicist, was simply guy bashing with her friends one night when she came up with the solution to all of her problems. First reported by the New York Post on Sept. 13, the idea of DontDateHimGirl.com was conceived to make other women aware of the dirty deeds their former men engaged in.
“It’s just unbelievable what these men put women through,” Joseph said.
After a quick visit to the Web site, here is what I found: It seemed like 90 percent of the cheaters were married.
I asked a University student what he would do if someone entered him onto this Web site, regardless of the validity of the information.
“Oh, I’d ruin her,” Chris, a 21-year-old senior business computer information systems (BCIS) major, said. “And tell every dark secret she ever had.”
No guy I asked would sit and tolerate this slander. According to the article, no one so far has sued the site for defamation of character or slander.
Then I asked the ladies of the University if they would ever stoop low enough to do this to an ex.
“That is borderline psychotic,” Jen a 21-year-old senior public relations major, said. “I would never, no matter how bad they treated me.”
Yet not everyone is quick to spare their ex’s feelings.
“I would do it,” Meaghan, 19-year-old freshman, said. “Because I don’t believe that any girl should have to go through the emotional abuse that I went through.”
Eight years ago, I had four people on my AOL Instant Messanger, and now I have over 250. Who knew a year ago that a little Web site called Facebook would become vital to our existence as college students? These things have a way of spreading faster than herpes, so even though only 190 men may be on there now, 19,000 men could be on there in a matter of months. The site was averaging 2,500 hits daily, before the New York Post article.
Who knows, this could become the first thing you do when someone asks you out. However, I don’t see the need for this. Sometimes we must let things be and not fixate on ruining the other person’s life. We all make mistakes, we all date idiots, but I don’t think it is our job to protect other people from it.
I suggest looking at the site. It may be sick and demented, but it’s damn entertaining.
Pictures and profiles of cheating ex-boyfriends are posted on a Web site for everyone to see. (Harry Tanielyan/The Chronicle)