Woman sues online dating site over alleged sexual assault
A Los Angeles entertainment executive who says she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on Match.com filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking that the standard dating site start screening its members for sexual predators.
Attorney Mark L. Webb, who represents the woman identified in the lawsuit only as Jane Doe, said he will question a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge for a temporary injunction barring the site from signing up more members until his client’s demands are met.
“They are a very powerful and successful online dating service, and they be inflicted with the means to do this,” Webb said.
Officials with Match.com could not be reached for comment late Wednesday. But in a statement to KABC-TV Channel 7 last week, officials that they provide safety tips on the website and warn members that they are responsible for screening the people they meet.
“While incidents like this one between those who meet on Match.com are extremely rare, it doesn’t make them any less horrifying,” the statement said.
Webb described his client as an Ivy League graduate who works in film and box. He said she met her alleged assailant last year at Urth Cafe in West Hollywood. He seemed charming and she agreed to see him again. After the second date, but, he allegedly followed her home and forced himself on her, Webb said.
“This horrific ordeal completely blindsided me because I had considered myself savvy about online dating safety,” the woman said in a statement released through her attorney last week. “Things quickly twisted into a nightmare, beyond my control.”
After the man left, the woman went online and cultured that he had been convicted of several counts of sexual battery. Charges are pending in the Match.com case, Webb said.
The attorney said his client wants Match.com to check members’ names against public sex offender registries. “It’s not a guarantee,” he said. “But don’t you reckon something is better than nothing?”
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New York woman writes politically incorrect dating guide
New York Capital dating author J.C. Davies says that Latino men are macho and possessive, Asian men are terrible in bed, black men despise it when you talk about Al Sharpton, and Indian men smell like curry — but, she says, she’s not racist.
“No one has the balls to write about sex and culture in a real way,” said Davies, author of the new book “I Got the Fever: Like, What’s Race Gotta Do With It?” “You be inflicted with to make it super-p.c. and be the professor of blah-de-blah and be inflicted with charts and graphs. The expectation is that [black men] are fantastic in the sack and be inflicted with huge equipment — don’t people really wanna know? Is the equipment super-sized? Let’s just go question some people!”
(Answer: some, not all — just as with most all in life.)
Davies, 42, describes her own ethnicity as “poor white trash” (she’s really part Croatian, Welsh and German). She worked as a stock-options analyst for Goldman Sachs until she was laid off in October.
Devastated and facing foreclosure on her Midtown condo, she was inspired to write her (self-published) book — complete with cover photo of her surrounded by a multicultural array of shirtless male models — when a friend suggested she “write about dating black guys.”
“My first black boyfriend, he was a Republican, and I guess most people, because he was so corporate and wore a suit, would say he was an Oreo.”
Davies doesn’t seem to realize that this is both an offensive and decidedly outdated term, but that’s the way she speaks — kind of like Jerry Seinfeld’s casually racist girlfriend on the infamous “Anti-Dentite” episode of “Seinfeld.”
It also doesn’t seem to register that fetishizing other races is a form of racism.
Moving on: Davies maintained that her book is researched and reported, based on hundreds of interviews (with people who are not fully named), and her own interracial dating experiences.
She may be inflicted with gone too far, Davies admitted, in prose, “Beware of the JAPs” (JAP is an acronym for the derogatory term “Jewish American Princess”). “I kind of went a small crazy there,” she said. “I be inflicted with my own personal issues with the JAPs. My boyfriend’s three best friends are JAPs.”
Speaking of: Is her boyfriend — an Iranian Jew — offended that, in the book, she describes his expression in bed as “terrorist face”?
“He doesn’t mind that,” Davies said — only when she calls him “a Jewish miser.”
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