The woman who forwarded some guy's instantly infamous dating spreadsheet to her friends (who in turn forwarded it to the World Wide Web) was "spiteful," claims another woman on the spreadsheet who just so happens to have the highest beauty ranking. Liliana Beidaut, a 26-year-old makeup artist who got the highest rating, a 9.5, has come forward to defend well-organized investment banker David Merkur. "Why would she send it to the whole world?" Beidaut asks the NY Post, which is obviously where one turns for advice on such matters.
Merkur made the mistake of telling one date, a 26-year-old Upper East Side brunette named Arielle, about his detailed Excel spreadsheet technique for keeping track of his many Match.com rendezvous. Arielle somehow persuaded him to forward the spreadsheet to her, and now everyone knows Merkur's secret to dating success. Of course, now that his photos are plastered all over the Internet, some uncharitable ladies are wondering how this husky investment banker got so many hot dates in the first place. Yep, sure is a mystery!
The spreadsheets also exposed the Match.com profiles of the women Merkur dated, and now Beidaut says she's "absolutely" considering legal action against Arielle. “My face is plastered everywhere now,’’ she tells the Post. “I was just thinking that I was using Match.com. I think he really liked the girl and he trusted her, so he sent her the thing. I think she was spiteful." Arielle, for the record, was ranked 9.0 for beauty. And in case you're wondering, things didn't work out between Beidaut and Merkur because she told him her ex-boyfriend was back in the picture. Which was a lie. Man, this story just piles one disillusionment on top of the next.
While some women have cringed at Merkur's sterile analyses of what might be considered a "romantic" encounter, he insists it "was an honest attempt to stay organized." And CNBC's John Carney has the bro's back. "I don’t think it’s especially insulting that Merkur kept track of the women on a spreadsheet," Carney opines. "He likely is a pretty data-driven guy. Almost everything he cares about is probably tracked on spreadsheets. The women on the list should probably be flattered.
"Merkur’s greatest fault here seems to be that he’s a poor judge of character. The girl he describes as a 'very pretty, sweet & down to earth' with a 'great personality' asked him to send the list. Then she emailed it to her friends." In conclusion, Carney blames our modern information superhighway for Merkur's global humiliation. "Good job, internet," Carney sneers. "I’m betting you won’t catch another guy emailing spreadsheets around to girls again. They’ll just keep them private." It really makes you weep for future generations, who'll never know the spirit of openness and transparency that defined online dating, back before this whole Merkur mess made everyone so darn deceptive.
