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If someone made a dating app where only men could message first, I suspect it wouldn’t be allowed on the App Store Of course, it’s your choice to use Bumble, a
by permo-w 6y ago
If someone made a dating app where only men could message first, I suspect it wouldn’t be allowed on the App Store
Of course, it’s your choice to use Bumble, and I support its right to exist, but it feels odd that it’s largely seen as a progressive take on the dating app, when, to me anyway, it seems regressive and imbalanced, putting one gender in the position to pick and choose, and the other passively waiting for that choice
However, I’m sure there are other meritorious perspectives on this, and I’d be pleased to hear them
Edit: I’m seeing in other comments that mainly they have this feature for the purely cynical reason of getting female users on the app - and generating publicity. That makes sense, but I’m more commenting on the media reaction itself, than the ethics of the company
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- echelon 6y ago> it seems regressive and imbalanced Dating has never been an even playing field. Why would an app be egalitarian?
- Bakary 6y agoThe app just tried to tackle the general equilibrium where men send many requests and receive few responses and women receive many requests but are interested in fewer of them. As other commenters have pointed out, the equilibrium reasserted itself with women on the app just using a generic "hi" as the response. The word progressive has become more or less meaningless but in this case the hypothetical app your described earlier is essentially almost every dating app in actual day-to-day practice. Essentially the status quo is already completely imbalanced, they are just putting a twist on it that serves as the app's hook.