AngelusPUA said:
It confuses me why a beautiful, 20 something, social butterfly, fun, deep, caring, loving, sexy, cool, down to earth, well grounded, career motivated, successful and whatever else they right on their profiles woman would resort to meeting men online. If she was really such a fantastic woman she would have been beating down her door.
Because beautiful, 20 something, social butterfly, fun, deep, caring, loving, sexy, cool, down to earth, well grounded, career motivated, successful women can have the same problems men have, insecurities, lack of time to go out and meet people, desire to pre-screen somewhat (at least more so than can be done talking to someone for two minutes at a bus stop or coffee shop), tired of the type of guys she finds in clubs/bars, whatever, there are lots of reasons, some more valid than others.
A roommate of mine who was also a good friend fit just about everyone of those things you mentioned. She was 23, way hot, a manager of a strip club here in town making over 100k a year, and she could get laid/have guys buy her drinks/find a relationship every single time she left the house if she wanted to. Instead, she married a guy she met on the Yahoo Personals site.
I get what you're saying, it doesn't make sense why they would want to, but making sense or not, it happens more than you'd think. I've met quite a few girls from sites like HotOrNot, AmateurMatch, PlentyOfFish, eHarmony, and a few others, and while I expected to just use it to find quick FBs for a slow weekend, I actually did meet a few normal girls who (from what I could tell) met at least 3/4s of those stipulations up there.
I think HotOrNot was the most successful for me, lots of girls in my area, the mods catch most of the fake/spam profiles pretty quickly, it's really cheap to be a member 6 bucks a month or something, it costs me more than that to drive to a from the Strip one time, or even get myself a water at the clubs), and my favorite thing about it is that you can't exchange emails with anyone until you have both clicked yes to each other, so way fewer wasted time emailing girls that won't respond, if you CAN email them, then they've already shown the initial interest and you can go from there. I probably met over 30 girls on HoN, and banged nearly half of those that I met, and only two flakes that acted interested but blew me off.