B umble was the first dating app I joined because it made me feel safe.
What ‘Feminist Tinder’ Promised
But recently something has changed — well, quite a lot of things, actually. Because this week, Bumble seems anything but empowering. All of this is desperately disappointing. The irony is that instead of promoting dating appsBumble has illustrated all of the problems around them, particularly dating straight women — see this studywhich found that heterosexual women feminist London are having a hard time finding suitable partners today.
Instead, they put pressure on women to date and have sex with men they might not be interested in. Too uppity. Too frigid. God forbid it has anything to do with the men these kinds of campaigns are attracting to your platform.
Bumble set out to make dating better for women. Did it deliver?
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