Being iPhone only is pretty straight up classism.
And I'm going through their facebook profile and all I see are white faces. What's up with that?
Not v feminist if you ask me.

Why are you emotionally invested in this app's success or failure? Are you in high school? Personally I don't understand the appeal of any of these dating apps, it's all just shallow surface readings of pictures and captions and that's supposed to tell you whether you'd work in a long-term relationship? I'm 24 and even I don't get kids these days.

If they truly want shit to be evolved and feminist they would do what they do in Japan where women wait until their 28 to even think about dating so they can get a career and stability and use porn/prostitutes to fill the gaps.

Are you guys serious? It seems like harmless fun to me, with a novel gimmick to get attention for the app.

There are a lot of perverted failed normies out there that feel the need to verbally shit on women on the internet out of blind misdirected horniness. Stupid, but some guys do it. This app solves that problem, I could see it becoming popular with women for that reason and the males will follow as a result. Maybe some of the offenders will learn that people don't like being harassed with sexual texts

>>71926
I can't imagine more than a handful of women joining the site. Creepy sexual messages aren't a huge problem unless you are oversensitive.

>>71905
The first one happens to me accidentally occasionally just because my house is a mess and I have anime dolls and bottles of alcohol just laying around, but I've never accidentally taken a selfie with an object I was trying to photograph.

>create a platform where females could be nice to other females
It's like this app was made by a group of middle-aged men that forgot how women act around each other. Of course they credit it to a non-threateningly ballza looking white woman because that'll sell better.

>>71953
>It's like this app was made by a group of middle-aged men that forgot how women act around each other

ballza point

women hate other women

>>71955
>>71954
Many feminists have written extensively about how sexism is perpetrated more often by women than men, or at least that woman-on-woman sexism is perhaps more insidious than many forms of man-on-woman sexism, due to the very fact that it's women doing it. Some people think this is a revelation because they're fucking clueless about actual feminist ideas.

Yeah, women are bitches to one another in many circles because they're taught from birth to compete over shallow goals. Then you just have perpetually immature people. For every Jersey Shore dhead or wife-beating trailer trash, there's a Jersey Shore Bitch or trailer trash willing to claw another bitch over her earrings.

>>71958
It's amazing how many people think feminism is accurately represented by some random tumblr blog they found. Pretty much every criticism of feminism comes down to someone who has no idea of what feminism is.

>>71959
It's easy to misconstrue something that is so poorly defined.

>>71976
Not so much "poorly defined" as broad or even undefinable, at least in a universal sense. Feminism is often context- and era-specific. It does (and should) morph and change depending on environment and circumstance but that also means it is easy to misconstrue, misidentify, bicker over, and organize in a broad sense.

I don't know, OP, that seems like a cool idea to me. Sure, it will in all likelihood fail, as most gimmicky tech startups do after failing to generate a profit but I think it's a fun idea. I know a lot of women who have used Tinder to one extent or another and while none of them have had a particularly horrible experience with it (it's pretty easy to ignore and delete people who send you offensive or gross messages), some have been put off by the ratio of crap to ballzaness. It can be annoying to be inundated with poorly written, overly sexualized messages from guys who clearly didn't read your little bio or even look at your photos beyond the first one, so setting it up with the basis of "girls take the initiative" could be an inventive and fun way to cut down on that... The time limit is a great idea too.

>>71906
>it's all just shallow surface readings of pictures and captions and that's supposed to tell you whether you'd work in a long-term relationship?
I don't think anyone ever said Tinder was about long-term relationships. It's not not about long-term relationships. I mean, it definitely could be, but no one with an ounce of sense is going to pretend you can tell someone is long term relationship material based on the snippets of info you see on tinder.

I had a great time using Tinder because it functions about as close to real life meeting/light social interaction as any internet-dating site/app could. Dating sites with in-depth profiles are by their very nature contrived. You have to put a lot more conscious effort and thought into writing your profile and I think by it's very nature that makes it less honest because it makes the person making the profile hyper-aware of their image, of what they are trying to convey.

In real life, you see someone at a party, in a class, at work, at a bar, in a coffee shop, at a potluck at a friend's house and you think that person is cute, you overhear a bit of their conversation with someone else, you chit-chat with them a bit and get a superficial sense of them which might cause you to develop a bit of a crush, want to know more about them, want to spend more time with them, want to ask them out on a date or hit on them or kiss them or whatever. Tinder is the same: you see what they look like and maybe you see a little (usually non-sequitur) blurb they've written and based on that you engage in a shallow, small-talkish chat. If it goes OK, you make plans to meet, and things go from there.

Yes, there is some contrivance in which pictures you choose, what you want them to convey about you, etc. but to me that is no different from, you know, picking your clothes to convey a certain image or doing your makeup or hairstyle a certain way or working out or whatever. It's much less contrived than any dating site I've seen and lead to some very natural interactions.

The point of Tinder is that it is a little shallow but not in a bad way. It's the same as seeing someone across a room, being taken by their looks or their style or their mannerisms or some other little thing you notice, and going over to make chit-chat. Where it goes from there depends on the people involved.

Bam, fucking nailed the Tinder experience.

I got on it for exactly the reason you said: it's a pretty ballza facsimile of the "real-life" meeting people process. Basically all my friends are in a relationship, and I don't really enjoy the bar scene as a place to meet girls (hearing problems, and I go out to drink with buddies anyway).

Tinder works based on initial attractions. You have to be physically interested in someone, be intrigued by their profile (if any) and get a feel for their ability to hold basic conversation. It doesn't have to be for long-term relationships, but starting with someone you find attractive and interesting is the best way if that's what you're looking for. Plus, it makes the first date a lot better because you already "met" that person. I met my girlfriend from Tinder, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for any kind of relationship.