Dating Ring launches crowdfunding campaign to send girls from NYC to SF

So, I threw up a bit in my mouth reading the title on HN and thought, "I'm wrong. It can't be that bad." Clicked through to Crowdtilt and it was as bad as I expected.

Old and busted: Mail-order brides. New hotness: Mail order dates from NYC.

http://archive.is/PCq7u

The optics of this are really bad, especially when the industry (as well as the front page of HN recently) has been discussing getting more women involved in the technology fields. Now we have a front page story where we're going to next-day air women to SF?

Why not send males over to NYC instead? (rhetorical question) The job market can better support them. Not sure if San Francisco's job market can handle more workers as easily.

I was born and raised in NYC and all I have to say is that I am glad that I moved to California as a married man. The two cities are not in the same league when it comes to both the quality and quantity of women (with the definition of quality not specified).

I recall something like this happening during the dot com boom of the 90s: Someone organized a big mixer so imported women could meet rich Silicon Valley guys - but it turned out to be the same day as Comdex, so no guys showed up.

(Couldn't find the full story anywhere, though. Anyone?)

It's 15 years later and we're still stuck with nerdy rich guy and gold-digger woman stereotypes. Except now we also have 'brogrammers'. Sad.

But isn't everybody in the Bay Area too busy "crunching it" to date anyhow?

I can't read the article, and wow does that headline sound terrible.

A campaign to collect airfare for single people? lol

I actually think this is a really cute idea and I would love to support their quest for true love, however I can't shake the feeling that I'd be sponsoring vacations for first-world women who didn't want to date me when I lived in the same city as them (not bitter, I'm happily married now).

I predict this will meet with surprising success, but only because it will self-select for women not averse to SF.

NYC and SF attract different gender profiles for a reason. The dating troubles of the modern era are a wicked problem, similar to hiring.

Great. Airlift them all out of NYC. It won't make a difference to me--I might as well be living in SF at this rate. Of course I'll contribute.

If a person is single... and STILL can't afford airfare ???

I'm not sure that's the dating pool you want to swim in.

Watch out Brooklyn hipster guys: you got competition!

Well, this is impressively creepy.

SF is more than welcome to take the women in New York that actually are attracted to guys in sandals and hoodies, if there are any