Yeah. That's true that most profiles aren't worth reading and it's also true that even if you have read it you might still ask questions like, "What are you looking for?" because you're trying to have a conversation and just maybe you want to see if their messages match their profiles.
I'm sure that we would all love to have all of someone on the internet's attention and may even feel entitled to it but that's not really the way it works. Don't assume that your profile or emails are well written or that interesting. You may as well be a man and quite possibly could be for all I know.
I'm sure that we all get annoyed by poorly written emails that we get but why does someone's ability to correspond like this matter so much if you're looking for a real person with real interests and not just a penpal? You can't both have someone that likes spending a lot of time on the internet and somebody that isn't an undatable loser.
You make valid points, tawtstrat.
Pic or not, I weed out potential matches according to whether they meet minimal age, non-smoking and location criteria. Also I like men who are a little reserved and even occasionally cantankerous, so their merely saying hi could be just because they're slow to warm up. Hence, I'll message them too. But once we've talked for a while, if the guy doesn't prove to be intelligent, articulate, ethical, capable, reliable, moderately health-conscious, apprized of world events, emotionally available, witty and reciprocatively tolerant of my own Gemini quirkiness, I'm not interested. Soul mate location outlook: Glum.
You know, then... 
They're just damn f'n asking for it. 
7 words! Give that guy a medal.
