So a woman went on a date off match.com; the guy was a convicted sexual batterer, and he went ahead and sexually battered her, too.  So she sued them and now match.com is screening out sex offenders:

http://jezebel.com/5792045/women-sues-matchcom-after-date-leads-to-assault

Match.com is screening out sex offenders to avoid bad PR about a chick getting raped by a repeat offender.  This is their 9/11 and the screening is their terror watch list, and soon we’re all gonna have to take off our shoes and have a stout Dennis Franz looking dude forage around our taint at the airport of internet dating.  And you know what?  Fine.  This is one of the few areas in life where whether you’re a sex offender SHOULD matter.  You should be kicked off match.com if you get convicted of rape, and you should not be able to be a mall Santa if you did three years for fingerfucking your niece.  But frankly, these are the ONLY things the sex offender registry should be used for, instead of its current overreaching fucking miasma of public humiliation, baiting of vigilantism, crushing of lives and careers, banning public urinators from living within a thousand feet of schools in cities where there’s a fucking school every five hundred feet, etc.  The sex offender registry is a cruel and unusual crock of shit and should have been completely done away with BUT not now, because they’ve finally found a legitimate use for it.  I give a fuck about sex offenders in two areas of life: being around kids and being in the dating pool scaring the girls, and that’s it.  I don’t give a shit if the guy at the muffler shop likes the bald pussy. 

I mean of course, any sense of security you get from this is false, you can be sex offended at any time by anyone, the call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE, etc. And there’s no way they execute this without some poor John Hodgman-looking schlump with the same name as a rapist getting tracked down by a match.com torch mob and strung up.  And sex crimes are overrreported as well as underreported, so a bunch of these guys probably did time for nothing because some child psychologist had a hard on to find some Satanic Ritual Abuse, and now this dude is out and he can’t even go on a date.  And even TALKING about sex offenders, even doing something that ostensibly makes online dating MORE SAFE, just by bringing it up you are making every girl think that their date is going to show up with a nylon stocking over his face and a boxcutter.  But still.  Why the fuck not.