These items are the top 50 things named in 526,000 profiles of white women on the dating site, Ok Cupid, as posted on their blog.
These are listed in order of the frequency each thing was written.

1. the Red Sox
2. Jodi Picoult
3. boating
4. Nascar
5. mascara
6. Ireland
7. Nicholas Sparks
8. horseback riding
9. bonfires
10. flea markets
11. a country girl
12. Nora Ephron
13. waitress
14. Ray Lamontagne
15. I’m blond
16. Yankees
17. Kenny Chesney
18. decorating
19. getting dressed up
20. skiing
21. When Harry met Sally
22. baths
23. my red hair
24. horses
25. summertime
26. wine
27. dmb
28. historical fiction
29. cookbooks
30. flip-flops
31. my girlfriends
32. The Time Traveler’s Wife
33. country music
34. diet coke
35. dirty dancing
36. coffee
37. thunderstorms
38. Midwest
39. Tim Mcgraw
40. new recipes
41. Patricia Cornwell
42. mom
43. Carrie Underwood
44. nursing school
45. Eat Pray Love
46. yoga
47. pilates
48. my toes
49. animal lover
50. baking

So what do we take from this? I’m not sure. As a white woman, I’m surprised at some things, and not at others. The Red Sox at position #1? I asked some baseball enthusiasts why they thought so many white women listed the Red Sox- and was told that the Red Sox are the whitest team in the league. Its also high up in the “stuff white men like” list.  So it’s code I suppose, along with country music and Nascar to say “I’m white, your white, lets be privileged and white together!”. I wonder if it’s also code for higher education as they are based in Boston, the ultimate New England white University town.

Jodi Picoult as #2? I’ve never read her books, but hear they are nice. I guess now I’ll have to read one. As for some general findings – I see a lot of middle/upper classness (boats, horses, skiing, pilates, wine) and at the same time working class professions (nursing school, waitress). Also considerable self indulgence (baths, toes, getting dressed up, yoga, pilates) Personally if I was reading a profile that said all this, I’d run! It implies that she wants to live an expensive lifestyle, but not work jobs that could support it, meaning her partner would have to. But I suppose that is the white female prototype – be all cute and privileged, and stay in jobs that hold less status than that of  their white husbands who will provide for them (and make them bonfires), while they cook (baking, cookbooks, new recipes).

Maybe that’s why we apparently really want to escape. Most of these women are urban, but say they are country girls who like bonfires, horseback riding, flea markets, thunderstorms, Ireland, and Eat Pray Love.

In all actuality, these aren’t necessarily what white women like, but what they think white men like that will make them more desirable. Advertising their hair, mascara, baseball, helping or serving professions, and some idealized romantic rural existence may say more about white men. Is this what you white guys like?

The other thing that these findings say, is what white women are not interested in. If you read the profiles of women from other races on the Okay Cupid blog, you will see that not only are white women the only women who don’t mention Alicia Keys, but they also don’t mention anything overtly political or covertly lefty in comparison to their women of color counterparts. oh whiteness.

I’d be interested to see what other people find when reviewing this data.