BLOG: Regarding the Girl Who Dated the Magic: The Gathering Champion and Was a Bitch About It

A few of you have asked for my thoughts regarding Monday’s Gizmodo story that went a little something like this:

Gizmodo intern Alyssa Bereznak signed up for OKCupid one night while drunk. Fighting through the messages from misogynistic assholes on a daily basis, she finally received one from a seemingly normal individual, Jon Finkel. During their first date, Jon reveals that he is a World Champion Magic: The Gathering player. The following is an excerpt from the Gizmodo article — that is, if one chooses to call something that is unfairly biased, incomplete, and poorly written an “article.”:

“At dinner I got straight down to it. Did he still play? "Yes." Strike one. How often? "I'm preparing for a tournament this weekend." Strike two. Who did he hang out with? "I've met all my best friends through Magic." Strike three. I smiled and nodded and listened. Eventually I even felt a little bit bad that I didn't know shit about the game. Here was a guy who had dedicated a good chunk of his life to mastering Magic, on a date with a girl who can barely play Solitaire. This is what happens, I thought, when you leave things out of your online profile.”

The reason I will not link to the actual post on Gizmodo is because this stupid piece of written garbage does not, for the love of God, need more page views. Linking to this article is feeding the trolls. Alyssa is a troll. The image of her getting rewarded by Gawker for getting over 700k page views for one of the worst columns ever published on the site tempts my stomach to cover my Macbook in projectile spaghetti vomit. And now you all know what I ate for lunch.

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Author: Lisa Foiles