ClueChick: real clues from a real chick

I have received a few small criticisms, nay, suggestions, regarding my advice here. One fellow thinks I wasn't being fair to the nice boys I featured in Fuck me... please. He thinks I'm being narrow-minded -- let me get this wording right -- "stuckup snotty bitches lik u r y men on craigs list dont get laid".

This is as good a time as ever to 'fess up: It's true; I'm both stuck-up and snotty. That is, I'm one of those smart women out there, and most of my girlfriends are also smart women, so that's where all of my advice is coming from. If you don't care if the women you hook up with are smart, or if you prefer that they're not, my advice may not be very useful to you. On the other hand, if you don't care one way or the other, why not try my advice and broaden your prospects? Or not. Whichever. If, however, you get hot for smart chicks...

But, one of the (many) criteria that I use is smarts. I like intelligence. And one of the ways that I judge that is in a person's writing style. Although it may seem like I'm using shallow measures (eg, complete sentences), it's how the whole ad or email comes together, and the person he presents through that. I don't actually care if you capitalize and punctuate correctly (though that helps) if you can manage to convey an interesting and engaging person without that.

Obviously, it helps if you are an interesting and engaging person to begin with. Assuming that, the key is simply to write a conversational ad or email that can get across the essence of who you are and what you're looking for, which will, we hope, allow the women who would find you interesting in any setting will also find you interesting online. Easy, right? Well, if it were, this would be the only post this blog ever needed. Instead, stay tuned!

Sidenote: do I get to count this as my first hate mail? I think it's probably too mild for that. Pity. And I'm going to take a potshot here and say: It's hard for me to imagine anyone successfully conveying a personality I'd like to get to know better if he's replacing words with letters.