Romance and Dating

Most Desirable Woman In Australia Is A Lawyer?

Either Australia is a weird country or she has a lot more going for her....

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It’s difficult to imagine singles anywhere checking out a dating profile and getting excited to see the word “lawyer.” There’s just something about argumentative, Type A personalities who nonetheless weren’t smart enough to realize there was more money in finance that really kills the mood.

And yet, according to the largest dating website in Australia, with over 2 million users, a lawyer is the most desirable woman in the country — her oft-clicked profile ranks #1 among women on the site. She gets around 30 “kisses” — the website’s version of “winks” or “pokes” or “pelvic thrusts” (I think that’s eHarmony’s) — from random strangers every day.

Either Australia is a weird country or she has a lot more going for her….

Meet Kimberley Russell, a corporate solicitor working in-house at a construction company — RCR Tomlinson if my research is correct — in Sydney:

Kimberley Russell is fun, open, caring, generous and a little bit cheeky. She likes smiling at strangers and good grammar. She doesn’t smoke or have children. She has light brown hair and what she calls an average body type. In photographs, she looks up at the camera (she is short: 162 centimetres [A shade under 5’4″]) with big blue eyes. Cuddles, clean sheets and chocolate are a few of her favourite things.

She is 30 years old and enjoys swimming and log fires and the film Avatar and men who are affectionate and loving but, at the same time, independent. She is a big city corporate solicitor but promises to be “the least lawyer-y person you’ve ever met”.

She sounds generally delightful, but Russell has at least one thing very right about her profile, and it’s certainly not liking Avatar. It’s that she promises to be “the least lawyer-y person you’ve ever met.” I don’t know, I’ve met some pretty unlaywer-y people in my day, and very few of them were also lawyers.

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Still, the line tickles such a fundamental interest that it’s funny Peter Munro, the reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald who embarked on this quest to figure out what makes an online dating profile popular, didn’t seize on the “least lawyer-y” line. It’s basically like Diet Coke — tacitly promising all the good parts of dating a lawyer with none of the bad. Whether she can deliver on that promise is left to the first date — presumed in the phrase “you’ve ever met” — making the urge to meet implicit in the profile.

This is a Machiavellian profile. Something actually befitting a lawyer and not the least lawyer-y person I’ve ever met.

Sitting on top is an unanswered message from a 34-year-old from Sutherland, with fair hair, a big grin and an enormous jawline: “Your profile made me smile. Do you want to chat further?” Russell scans his profile briefly. “It’s too hard to read because there are no paragraphs,” she says.

She culls guys for poor grammar? “The problem is you are really looking for your ideal because there are so many options,” she says. “When you meet someone in a bar you get to learn about them. Whereas here it is like a smorgasbord – you can just go through and go nuh, nuh, nuh.”

She nixes guys based on grammar. More cracks in the “least lawyer-y” façade. Not that I disagree with her impulse.

While she is currently dating three guys, including another lawyer, she still hasn’t made a connection. She went out and gathered an expansive universe of profiles and now she needs to review them all carefully looking for the one with magic language.

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That’s the most lawyer-y thing of all.

Most wanted [Sydney Morning Herald]

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