Slavoj Žižek on Synthetic Sex and Being Yourself

Philosopher and social critic Slavoj Žižek dislikes the sense of selfcommodification and selfmanipulation innate in online dating. People strive for perfection when they set up dating profiles. Žižek believes love isn t about seeing someone as perfect, but rather appreciating them for the reasons they re not perfect. Perfection is an illusion, he says. Perfection is plainness. It s innocuous and generic. This isn t necessarily an endorsement of bold and honest selfexpression, because as Žižek explains,