Helen Fielding has the key to online dating
Any list of the top 10 best chick flicks of all time has to include 2001′s Bridget Jones’s Diary. The story of one flawed woman’s mishaps as she searches for love has resonated with millions of women across the globe. So when the author of the Bridget Jones novels said she knows the secret to online dating, single ladies everywhere listened up.
As part of her research for the newest book in the Jones series, Mad About the Boy, author Helen Fielding set up two online dating profiles and began an experiment that proved nice girls don’t always finish first in the dating game.
The first fake profile featured a sensible, sweet, and unassuming book lover wearing modest clothing. The second profile, which Fielding named “SuperLuckyBitch,” showed a photo of a sexy woman whose description portrayed her as “a real bitch.”
So what happened? The results are not particularly encouraging for nice girls. Fielding said SuperLuckyBitch got all of the replies. Does that mean the secret to online dating is becoming a bitch?
Before you go losing your sweet demeanor, keep in mind that those men aren’t always the ones you would want to date. Fielding says she did go on a date with one of the men who reached out online, but it didn’t work out.
“I did see one person but he realized that I was a writer and guessed who I was,” she told an audience in LA. “I went and met him and explained I was doing research and he was very nice about it.”
Nice girls don’t fret! Even if Fielding’s results aren’t all that heartwarming, another viewing of Bridget Jones’s Diary should be enough to buoy your spirits. Colin Firth can make anyone believe in love again!
