All these women yapping about women's lib and how they need equal treatment and all that but all of that gets tossed to the side when a man offers to take them out for dinner. They just seem to assume that the man will pay. The women libbers also never complain about not having to register for the draft and they never fight with the man over who gets to deal with the overflowing toilet either, but I digress.
Now I can see the man being expected to pay for dinner if he actively courts a woman in order to win her affections. But we are talking about an online dating site, in which both parties are presumably hard up. In this case, protocol would seem to dictate that at least for the first date, that both man and woman share in the dinner bill equally.
Heh. Reminds me of the interchange between the guy who held the door for The Independent Woman. She fixed him with an icy look and said, “Tell me you aren’t holding that door because I’m a woman.” He replied, “No, Ma’am. I’m holding this door because I am a gentleman.”