When the bourgeois, liberal, and essentialist takeover of feminism makes me lose faith in the movement as a whole, Alice Cappelle comes back to restore that lost faith!

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    I just want to point out that Bumble’s cited reason for allowing men to make the first move now was feedback from their female customers, many of whom didn’t like having to make the first move. I think it’s an option now.

    Idk if they’re full of shit or not but that is what they said.

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      I just want to point out that Bumble’s cited reason for allowing men to make the first move now was feedback from their female customers, many of whom didn’t like having to make the first move.

      What the fuck is the point of this app then. That’s literally just every other dating app lol. Seems weird to forcefully change a unique niche into something that everyone else offers instead of just moving to a different app

      instead of just moving to a different app

      Now that i type it out, it makes sense now lol.

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        I mean they’re all the same and they work like slot machines that mostly spit out flaky people, but I met someone on it who’s pretty cool and we’re just gonna cuddle and kiss and watch anime tomorrow afternoon so I guess Bumble ain’t all bad

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        Obviously they only did it to keep users around for longer. But I do think, in a vacuum, it makes sense to alter the way a dating app works after it has an established userbase. If you want to cultivate a certain kind of user by having women make the first move, then once you cultivate those users you phase out that feature, you still keep most of the users. It’s like if Twitter worked exactly like Facebook tomorrow, you’d still have boomers on facebook and nazis on twitter for the foreseeable future.

        But I’m pretty sure that due to the nature of dating, the userbase for all generic apps just becomes more homogenous over time because the apps suck and people use as many of them as possible to match, with no reason for exclusively using any specific one. Therefore, yeah, Bumble killed its only defining feature.

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      Sounds full of shit to me but only because most of the women I’ve known who used Bumble cited that capability to limit the weirdness in their inbox by making them the ones who move first to be a plus. But that’s all anecdotal, so mileage varies.

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    5 months ago

    Good video. Thanks for the recommendation. Good overview of the present state of feminism that defined some of the rather nebulous observations I’ve had internally about where things have been heading.