If you happened to be on OkCupid sometime in the past ten years (poor, familiar souls), you were likely to have come across a good-looking person with a frighteningly mediocre profile. Halfway down the page, right after they expressed their passion for basic needs (food, sleep), there it’d be, the sentence clause of your nightmares: “I don’t watch TV.” Usually, the author would follow it up with a gentle assertion of their intellectual superiority—“I prefer to read books,” or “I’d much rather see an independent film, or take a walk.” As thrilling as “taking a walk” might have been for some, still others (points at self) felt their sedentary little hearts shatter. Read more…
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