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I agree with people being empowered regardless of gender. However...imagine an app where only men could contact women. I feel like certain groups would be outr

• mcv 7y ago
  A big difference is that that app would double down on a specific gender-based inequality in dating, whereas an app that turns it around, subverts that traditional gender-based inequality. That is less sexist, and might indeed be more effective because of it. It forces women to take a more active role in dating when in traditional society, they're often expected to take a passive role. So it doesn't confirm the sexism, it addresses and counters it. If at some point in the future, it becomes expected that men take a passive role while women always take initiative, then your imagined app would be better because it would subvert that sexist expectation. It's all about context. Ideally of course we should end up somewhere in the middle, where men and women are equal partners in the dating arena.
• landryraccoon 7y ago
  Nobody would be outraged because the app would fail and nobody would be using or talking about it. We’re only talking about Bumble because their approach works in some sense.