-“It was exhausting,” she said. “I needed my sleep, and I was done playing the game,” Sport said.

-Jessica currently has a boyfriend who she did not meet online.

I’d also recommend watching the “news story” so you get a feel for Jessica’s person and attitude about this whole thing, but that’s up to how much time you allot to wasting each day.

Okay. Now here are my thoughts on this mess:

-Ultimately this is a silly story about a girl who took advantage of guys using technology that makes this all very easy and common. As I said to Matt when he passed it along, “I don’t have much to say about this other than ‘some people are assholes’ or maybe ‘most people are assholes.’ But then I thought harder about it and realized that there’s a bigger issue here surrounding why people are enabled to be such assholes.

-$1,457 on a 45K salary is not financially responsible, especially if you want a lifestyle that costs between $500 and $1,000 a month in dinners. Someone should have told Jessica that before she moved into the city. She needed a way to “have her cake and eat it too” which seems to be a condition with which many 20-somethings are plagued. I once had 5K in credit card debt to prove it. Taking advantage of men so that she could dine at the hottest spots and still afford the finer things in life was more important to Jessica than being a decent human being. This is a problem, world.

-To play my own devil’s advocate – any man dumb enough to buy a $200 bottle of anything on a first date is cooking his own goose. It is nice to treat someone to a nice meal, but you can get a nice meal for $60, total. Or, better yet, start with a drink and see if you actually like the person enough to take them to Megu. I suspect that’s not what the date is about for these guys, though, which means they’re not entirely innocent in this game.

-Not eating lunch so you have enough money is a big, big problem. It’s not healthy and it represents a massive issue with budgeting and prioritizing money. Sorry to go all MOM on that detail, but it’s not a flip and funny practice of a savvy, single New Yorker. It’s an eating disorder.

-The news article and subsequent ABC News interview don’t really address how Jessica felt about any of these man. She’s never asked if she feels like she used them. She’s never asked if she feels like she was owed these dinner. All we get is her saying that she’s “traditional” and that she believes a man should pay for dinner on the first date. But was she out to meet a boyfriend? Was she actually interested in any of these men? Did she do this for absolutely anything beyond free meals? Resolving that, “at least that awful date was worth a free meal,” is one thing. Developing a spreadsheet to track your train of free dinners is another.

-Bottom line: this isn’t fair to online daters and it isn’t fair to women. That’s why this isn’t just a “some people are assholes story,” it’s a “one bad apple can spoil it for the bunch,” tale. It’s an exaggerated example of a selfish and shallow woman who reflects poorly on the world of online dating, 20-something women, and, frankly, New York City (yes, my heart just hurt a little typing that).

Please, please don’t do this, ladies. And guys, please be a little more sensible about what you’re giving a woman on the very first date.

And Hollywood, SO HELP ME GOD if you give this girl a book deal…