POF's new "Ambition" category and the Psychopath

I haven't been on POF in a couple of months, because like most superheroes, I have a fucking day job. And this is my busy time of the year. You want to know what I do? I deal with psychopaths. Not, not murderers, rapists, and assorted career criminals, but the real scourge of society, politicians. This time of the year when legislatures around the country get together to find new ways to legally sodomize those of us stupid enough to elect them into office.

But thankfully I have a break from the monotony of drudging through mountains of legal jargon so I thought I would rail on my other favorite group of psychopaths, the POF daters. So now, POF has added yet another tidbit of info to our already self-flagellating profiles, the "Ambition" category.

As if there wasn't enough for us to feel miserable about, especially those of us judged for not having six-pack abs and six figure incomes. Now you have to tell the world you are either a lazy, slothful bastard or a backstabbing, step-on-toes, conniving psychopath. This is even more damning than trying to find that balance between "I just want a fuck buddy" and "our second date is a wedding chapel in Gatlinburg." Fuck.

So pick your poison. All sound shitty to me.

NOT AMBITIOUS: You live in your mom's house playing World of Warcraft or jerk off to various fetish "pr0n" (anyone still use 2000 era internet slang?). You probably weigh as much as the house you live in.

SOMEWHAT AMBITIOUS: You probably still live with your mom but you have a dead end job and maybe have a paid subscription to a couple of pr0n sites. But at least you may meet the base minimum requirements of having a "house, car and J-O-B" if you are smart enough to explain it properly.

AMBITIOUS: You are a self-serving prick who treats people like chattel and you don't mind stabbing people in the back to selling off your child to get what you really want in life.

VERY AMBITIOUS: The ultimate prick. Unlike the regular ambitious person, you have likely backstabbed someone with an actual knife. You probably mutilated defenseless animals and set fires at some point in your life, but decided your sadism is a better match for the sycophants of Corporate America, who take your abuse and come back for more, and that psychological torture is far more satisfying than flat out killing people.

If you think I'm full of shit, consider the fact that psychopaths thrive in Corporate America. Bad bosses are likely to be psychopaths. This, of course, extends to the dating scene. The thing that really annoys me is how many "ambitious" women still demand a man be willing to take care of them financially instead of making their own money (or, to use the basic term, a "gold digger"). How about this, ladies. YOU go get a house, a car, and a J-O-B.

The good news is now, I can pick women with little to no ambition, so I can avoid the psychopaths out there. But then again, psychopaths and clever and manipulative. Well fuck.