How About a Pre-Owned Men Feedback Registry?

Credit: Cynthia MacGregor

You know how eBay has the capacity for buyers to leave feedback on their purchases? There should be a central registry where women can leave feedback on men for the edification of these men's potential future wives, SOs, even dates. Face it, in the spirit of being green, most men are recycled anyhow. Even if they're not pre-owned (divorced), all but the youngest--mere boys--have had a relationship or two.

In the spirit of informed consumerism, a registry would allow women to leave feedback on the men they've lived with or been married to, or at least had a Long-Term Relationship with. (One-night stands don't count.)

Let's hear it, sisters: Speak out about your ex. Your biggest gripe may be a big so-what to another woman, who doesn't mind marrying Ten-Thumbs Tommy as long as he's an equal contributor to the family bank account, or living with Couch-Potato Carl as long as he doesn't tune up his Creative Farting every time her mother comes to visit. But what if she just can't coexist peacefully with a guy who doesn't listen when she talks or whose eyes aren't the only part of his body that wanders to other women or who comes up with so many excuses for not taking out the garbage that she can see his future as a fiction writer?

Forewarned is forearmed, and we owe it to our sisters to give them consumer alerts when we recycle men back into the dating/marriage pool.

eBay has a feedback system to help consumers before they make a purchase. Where is the sister who will set up a feedback-and-ratings system for rating recycled, available men?


[NOTE: Naturally I wrote this with tongue firmly in cheek, but after I first disseminated it, three people got in touch to tell me there actually had existed a website with a registry such as I suggested, some time in the not-too-distant past! GMTA!]