My Brief OkCupid Affair With a World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player

An exercise in shallowness!

http://gizmodo.com/5833787/my-brief-okcupid-affair-with-a-world-champion-magic-the-gathering-player

Yeah, I agree, though taking a first date to a play about a serial murder might be a bit rough. That's date 3 material!

redxxii wrote:Yeah, I agree, though taking a first date to a play about a serial murder might be a bit rough. That's date 3 material!

I've always been of the persuasion that the Mutter Museum is a quality first date location. Weeds out the norms.

She is getting the fuck beaten out of her online. Magic Community to the rescue!

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/alyssa-bereznak-just-reminded-us-that-women-can-be-predators-online-too/

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/jyn8m/scumbag_blogger_goes_on_date_with_magictg_player/

http://twitter.com/#!/search/alyssa%20bereznak

Finkle-Gate!

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/recurring-nightmares-a-date-with-dahmer/

i've been following this since yesterday morning. see my Twitter:

Echidona Steve Stein
: this @AlyssaBereznak thing is very relevant to me because i both play Magic AND met my wonderful, tolerant girlfriend on OKCupid.

: only difference? i actually wrote on my profile on OKC that i play Magic. (@AlyssaBereznak)

also:

Sadly, Jon did not disclose other aspects of his life… such as perhaps that he had also won the World Series of Poker and had revolutionized how the game was played. Or that he and several of his friends had dominated Las Vegas as a card-counting team, winning more than $70,000 at blackjack alone? Would Ms. Bereznak – who was evidently clutching her pearls wondering what her sisters in Pi Delta Pi would think if they knew that she had gone on a date with a nerd – have had such an atavistic reaction that she felt the need to write this article… apparently in revenge?

http://www.doctornerdlove.com/2011/08/okcupid-horror-story/

and:

As a matter of fact, that would have been a good exercise for Miss Bereznak to try: go through the article and where she talked about Magic players, substitute a religion or nationality. Chances are, if it sounds offensive with “Irish” or “Muslim”, it’s going to sound offensive no matter what proper noun you insert.

http://renaissancedork.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/who-did-you-think-you-were-impressing-alyssa-bereznak/

one more:

Jon Finkel, I don’t really know anything about you, except that you’re single and spend a lot of time playing Magic. And that’s cool. You keep right on doing it. That goes the same for all the other non-champion Jon Finkel geeks in the world. For every one of you, there’s a non-Alyssa out there who will be the mana for your spells.

http://www.geekmom.com/2011/08/mamas-dont-let-your-babies-grow-up-to-date-alyssa-bereznak/

finally:

http://yfrog.com/gzgj8fej

i think my favorite part of this whole this is her closing message: "Google the shit out of them", referring to potential online dates.

i hope her potential online dates heed her advice.

I too have been following along closely. With the exception of a few fellow bloggers who seem to be jumping to her defense ("'c'mon, admit that Magic is unattractive to women"), the whole internets seem to be swarming about her. While I don't condone the attacks on her appearance, it's nice to see that at this day and age, a lot of people get riled when someone is unfairly publicly mocked.

Katie always has better perspective on these things than I do. Her response was "why is anyone bothering to listen to her and get upset." Basically, why is anyone giving her a platform in the first place. I'm now torn between wanting to follow this and rally to support Jon Finkel, and wanting to not give her obnoxiousness the time of day.