Day 23: Niche Online Dating Sites for Intellectual Badasses
4Good morning, all. Welcome to Day 23 of 30 Days of Dating Advice for Intellectual Badasses. We’re still covering the brave world of online dating, and how you can maximize your online dating experience.
With online dating rapidly becoming one of the most common ways couples meet, the industry has responded and developed a truly impressive menu of online dating options. Most of you are familiar with (and probably use) Match.com or other well-known sites such as eHarmony, OkCupid, or Plenty of Fish. These sites are useful due to their sheer size, which increases your options.
However, these are general sites. They’re designed for anyone and everyone who wants to date online. There are also more specialized dating sites that cater to specific groups of people. These are referred to as niche sites. They have niche sites that cater to specific religions, specific ethnicities, and specific hobbies or lifestyle choices. And, they have niche sites that cater to Intellectual Badasses.
If online dating is the primary way you date, an effective strategy can be to join both a large general dating site and one niche site to maximize your options.
The following includes a list of niche dating sites for IBs. Because Intellectual Badasses are a heterogeneous group of individuals, this list contains a variety of different options. See if one appeals to you. Also, note that this is simply a list of what’s possible, not a recommendation list. I haven’t tried these sites. There are a couple I would definitely try if I were single. So try them for me and report back to us!
For Scientists
For Techies
For Brainy Types
For Nerds (i.e. those who love of sci-fi, fantasy, gaming, etc)
For Literary Types and Book Lovers
Another dating website is IQ Catch http://www.iqcatch.com, the website incorporates an optional IQ Test that can be taken anytime by members, incorporates latests IQ news from around the web. Designed for Intellectuals.
I find that the premise of the Right Stuff is elitist and exclusionary.
I went to a top 50 ranked private college that is not on the site’s list, on an academic and need based scholarship. I graduated with honors and then went on to obtain two graduate degrees, also with honors and on the board of my law school’s law review, from reputable schools that I chose for their specific program in my field.
The idea the site promotes is that individuals who graduated from the “listed” schools, even if they barely made in through (George W. Bush, anyone?) are somehow more worthy and intellectually endowed than a young woman who worked her way through a state school, graduated summa cum laude, and then went on to law school at a reputable institution.
Utterly snobby in my opinion.
I appreciate your information. But you know Marie I would have expected something like that from a site called “the Right Stuff.”
So how do we find you now
Seth
Science Connection has suspended operations for new people; Scientific Singles’ website is closed.