Will Date for Food: Women Who Seek Fancy Dinners

[Shadow]

Do you think it is wrong to expect the man to go all out on a date,or do you think women should split the tab? Do you think that in today's society women still expect to be wined and dined?


It's a stereotype as old as dating itself: women seeking guys for material gain, and guys seeking women for their beauty. But when 25-year-old Jessica Sporty spoke honestly about her brief but calculated plan to date men of means while living in New York, her confession sparked outrage online.
BusinessInsider.com, the website that featured the interview with Sporty last week, eventually disabled the article's comment section, but angry readers continued to vent on other websites that had picked up the story.
Some people called her a "gold digger" and others called her "obscene."
After the fallout, Sporty -- who now lives in California -- sat down with "Good Morning America" to tell her side of the story.
"I'm a traditional girl," she said. "And to me, I feel a part of dating is if a guy wants to take me out, what's wrong with him taking me out to a dinner and me expecting for the bill to be paid?"

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/dat...ry?id=15107409

[ConHog]

Do you think it is wrong to expect the man to go all out on a date,or do you think women should split the tab? Do you think that in today's society women still expect to be wined and dined?


It's a stereotype as old as dating itself: women seeking guys for material gain, and guys seeking women for their beauty. But when 25-year-old Jessica Sporty spoke honestly about her brief but calculated plan to date men of means while living in New York, her confession sparked outrage online.
BusinessInsider.com, the website that featured the interview with Sporty last week, eventually disabled the article's comment section, but angry readers continued to vent on other websites that had picked up the story.
Some people called her a "gold digger" and others called her "obscene."
After the fallout, Sporty -- who now lives in California -- sat down with "Good Morning America" to tell her side of the story.
"I'm a traditional girl," she said. "And to me, I feel a part of dating is if a guy wants to take me out, what's wrong with him taking me out to a dinner and me expecting for the bill to be paid?"

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/dat...ry?id=15107409

My wife never paid for a date. Just the way I always dated. But I see kids today usually go out dutch. At least from the tales I hear.

[Noir]

Personally I always pay when I can, but I kinda take it to the extreme and just spend money on other people, date or not...like lastnight I went to the cinema with a friend and paid for his taxi there and back, and his drink, all he paid for was his ticket, but my brain doesn't mind that for whatever reason lol,

[darin]

I'd pay for dates; no problem. I don't want it to ever be an issue, or awkward, so I'd just poney-up. If I felt a woman was taking advantage, I'd surely stop seeing her.

[ConHog]

I'd pay for dates; no problem. I don't want it to ever be an issue, or awkward, so I'd just poney-up. If I felt a woman was taking advantage, I'd surely stop seeing her.

Exactly. There is a difference between being a gentleman and being taken advantage of. I'm pretty generous with my money anyway, not just with dates, but I don't get taken advantage of. Of course now my wife never opens her purse when a bill arrives LOL

[fj1200]

Personally I always pay when I can, but I kinda take it to the extreme and just spend money on other people, date or not...like lastnight I went to the cinema with a friend and paid for his taxi there and back, and his drink, all he paid for was his ticket, but my brain doesn't mind that for whatever reason lol,

I can see you extending the same privilege to Gunny; you just seem to be that nice.

[ConHog]

I can see you extending the same privilege to Gunny; you just seem to be that nice.

Could you just imagine Gunny sitting through The Notebook?

[Dilloduck]

Will date for food=====people to avoid at all costs

[Shadow]

Will date for food=====people to avoid at all costs

Yeah...but you avoid people in general.

[Dilloduck]

Yeah...but you avoid people in general.

and with good reason, mind you !

[Shadow]

and with good reason, mind you !

LOL me too. People suck

[Kathianne]

I'd pay for dates; no problem. I don't want it to ever be an issue, or awkward, so I'd just poney-up. If I felt a woman was taking advantage, I'd surely stop seeing her.

That's the right attitude. Way back when, if I was making more than the person I was dating, which of course takes awhile to find out, I'd pay or split the bill. When I've dated since the divorce, the men have always paid.

I can only look at how my own two sons have dealt with dating, at first it seems everyone pays their own since it was usually a group of them. When they decided they liked the girl well enough to pay, they started dating as a couple. That's when the gifts started happening too. LOL! They've had some heartbreaks in the past, but now both are engaged and getting married in 2013.

[Shadow]

I'd pay for dates; no problem. I don't want it to ever be an issue, or awkward, so I'd just poney-up. If I felt a woman was taking advantage, I'd surely stop seeing her.

My dating experiences were a little of both,but I usually found out that once I started paying for/buying things...it was expected at that point. But then,I'm not a good judge of what to expect when dating since I didn't really "date" per se. Most of my dates ended in long relationships that lasted several years.

I do know several women that date and seem to demand things that they want (and will say they have no problem telling you what they like and don't like)...example being really nice hotel rooms for trips,nice dinners out...things that cost quite a bit (and they seem to get them...no questions asked). How do men feel about women asking for certain things that could cost quite a bit of money?

[Abbey Marie]

Long time since I've been single, but from what I read above, and what I know from our 20 year old, whether or not the man pays for the woman is a good gauge of how serious he is about her. Unless he is in financial trouble, of course.

[Noir]

I can see you extending the same privilege to Gunny; you just seem to be that nice.

Damn right... I'd love to take gunny to dinner but I know he'd only order the biggest, bloodiest steak he could, with a side order of smaller but just as bloody steaks. So sweet ^,^