This paper looks into the narratives in the personal profiles of heterosexual female Internet daters, analysing the patterning of gender performatives in the virtual social space. It also shows how the performative acts cite and negotiate with current gender discourses. In so doing, the researcher appropriates the concepts of "gender performative" and "negotiated meaning" in building the theoretical framework of discourse analysis and content analysis, examining the ways in which younger women, via the speech acts in online self-narratives, develop dialogues with the traditional gender norms, feminisms and popular discourses, which underlie the performative acts. The results show that any piece of utterance, however fragmentary or ordinary it seems, could be citing or materializing a certain gender discourse. By virtue of making statements relating "the truth about one-self," the female Internet dater claims or asserts the self-image she means to perform. It is also shown that a traditional gender norm is still governing the younger generation to some extent, especially in the aspect of female role; "altruistic," "devoted" and "caring" are attributes commonly referred to. Nevertheless, local feminisms prove to be subversive to the traditional gender norm: as seen in the performative discourse, the female consciousness evoked by feminists is present across the nodal points of female body, femininity, female role, and female eros. At the same time, mediated popular culture has emerged as the new hegemonic force among the younger women and reconstituted power relations in the field of gender movement.