It all began when Page received a low-pressure hello in the form of a "wink" from a fellow member of the dating site. In his response to the woman, he listed his credentials — Buckhead high-rise dweller, Ivy League grad, a job in corporate finance, his work-out regimen, his height and his weight — and inquired about hers.
The unidentified woman sent him the Match.com equivalent of a "thanks, but no thanks" in a Web site-generated form letter that said their personalities didn't match.
And that's when Page fired off a scathing missive, which can be read in its entirety at http://www.gawker.com. Summed up, it accused her of being out of shape and chided her for missing out on his many qualities: "8.9 on Hot or Not, Ivy League grad, Mensa member, can bench/squat/leg press over 1,200 lbs., has had lunch with the secretary of defense, has an MBA from the top school in the country, lives in a Buckhead high rise, drives a Beemer convertible, has been in 14 major motion pictures, was in Jezebel's Best dressed, etc." [full story]
Seriously. What a tool.
I mean, it's one thing if people ask you questions, and these things come out in regular conversation. But if you have to tell somebody how great you are, that generally means you're not that great. Just like, if you have to tell people you're funny, then you're probably not very funny. Just like, if you tell people that you're smart, then you're probably not very smart.
Don't get me wrong - I don't think he's lying or anything. I just think... he's a tool.
Update: it looks like he's been a tool for quite some time.
Juicy update: someone on Fark tracked down a copy of the email transactions between John and the woman after her initial contact with him... look for the comment by EvilEgg. Hard to believe, but that email makes him sound like even more of a tool.
"I can't believe he could be even more of a douchebag" update: check out his modeling agency website. You'd think that such a smart man (I honestly think that Mensa is mentioned on every page) would be more advanced at html (hello, MS Front Page). And I really love that, because he's met some celebrities, that puts him in the "fame game" (see his bio page). Well, shit, then I must be a porn star, because I've met tons of porn stars! I mean, really... part of the fame game? Where I come from, we just called people like him a name dropper. And a tool.
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