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  • linxiaotu [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Dating apps are a special sort of awful. When my bf and I got on tinder looking for casual side dates it really exposed some imbalances - he'd swipe on basically any girl he might be slightly interested in and had almost no matches, while I found myself raising my standards a lot because I'd match with just about everyone I liked, as a pretty average looking trans woman.

    Like 90% of the matches I got led to nothing ofc - dudes just tryna bang or people who I stopped finding interesting, or people who missed the part where I said I'm trans - but I still probably arranged my bf more dates than he found himself. Just being a woman completely changed how I experienced the app.

    Had some fun dates though. Slightly less horny than Grindr and a lot of cool bi chicks in my area.

      • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It wouldn't surprise me if they would purposely screw over some users, then turn around and sell that data to companies promoting masculinity or beauty-enhancing products.

        Actually, they probably do this to every user in some way. Fucking capitalism rewards this kind of behavior, especially when the US doesnt have any laws forbidding it.

    • Trouble [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, numbers game is in women's favor that's for sure, it kinda turned the gross "sexual marketplace" thing libertarians talk about into a real thing w/ supply and demand and all that lol