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Catholic Match is a Bad Joke

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Wednesday, March 21 2018 @ 01:51 pm

I have used Catholic Match for a number of years, but off and on, and I have increasingly gotten the impression it’s more about money than actually promoting the Catholic faith. They have used deceptive ads on Facebook featuring fake profiles, and apparently are so desperate for subscriptions that they send out snotty emails with subjects like “Why did you not take us up on our offer??” and they have to keep extending their specials because not many people want to pay. The administrators and the contributors to the CM Institute blog seem to act more like middle-schoolers with very little real dating and relationship experience. Their dating advice is usually filled with outdated and even sexist information, such as telling women not to be too picky and give guys you don’t like a chance. And then they have the nerve to beg for donations to expand their Catholic Match Institute website and their dating classes. I have gotten the impression they don’t know how to advertise properly.

What is also alarming is how they are so desperate to promote themselves that they promote toxic relationships as normal and healthy. A featured story called “He Found His Princess While Discerning a Vocation” involves a man who strung along and manipulated a woman for three years claiming he was discerning to become a monk, and then manipulated her into marrying him with a drawn out proposal where he refused to let her rest after work, eat, or even go to the bathroom, and then their engagement was only a month. Multiple members issued complaints and concerns for the young lady, but all the administrators did was remove the ability to leave comments! They are still promoting this disturbing story.

As for members, there are a lot of holier-than-thou traditionalists and those spouting sexist and racist ideas. I once got screamed at in the forums because I, as a white woman, didn’t want to date any white men. There were a lot of racist and ageist comments that followed before I had to ask the administrators to lock the topic.

There aren’t a lot of non-white members, especially Asian men. I have found that a lot of white men post unflattering photos of themselves - photos where you can’t really see their faces or where they’ve purposely put up weird photos. People complain about the way women look on the site, but a lot of guys look like they don’t care about their appearance or are disabled in some way. I have come across the profiles of a few men who are autistic or developmentally disabled, and they’re clearly looking for a caretaker to bully around, not an actual wife. Some of them can’t even work. This occurs on other dating sites, but a Catholic site should fully uphold the Catholic view of marriage; people who are disabled in certain ways may not be able to consent to either marriage or sex, and thus shouldn’t be married.

Catholic Match loves to talk about how much better they are than other dating sites, but I have met more quality men on POF. A lot of men flock to CM but are too immature and unrealistic when it comes to dating and marriage; they then panic and loudly bemoan the lack of “real” Catholic women when they are confronted with real women with their own preferences, experiences, and opinions that are dissimilar to their own, even if the woman are obedient Catholics. CM doesn’t adequately filter out men who run off to the seminary or try to use the site when they are discerning to be a priest.

I have seen a lot of abandoned profiles and found people often deleted their profiles, which has given me the impression that the dating pool on CM is actually small. I seem to come across the same profiles over and over again, regardless of my filters for ethnicity, etc.

If you’ve read this far, thanks. Please find a different site more worthy of your time.

Catholic Match is a Bad Joke

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Saturday, July 14 2018 @ 09:33 pm

"As for members, there are a lot of holier-than-thou traditionalists and those spouting sexist and racist ideas. I once got screamed at in the forums because I, as a white woman, didn’t want to date any white men. "

isn't refusing to consider a man a possible date based solely on his ethnicity, by definition, racist?

Catholic Match is a Bad Joke

Authored by: Jack (Anonymous User) on Saturday, October 13 2018 @ 06:27 pm

I found catholicmatch to be very very racist, I even had one member telling that sorry you’re not Caucasian, also many ego boosted catholics.

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