Ladies, Please Stop Doing This on Dating Apps Immediately
Seriously, enough with the filters.
It’s hard enough to be a man on a dating site. It doesn’t matter which one. I’ve tried OkCupid, Match, Plenty of Fish, Tinder, Bumble, and eHarmony. There is zero variance. Single women from all walks of life spend day after day swiping left to avoid predators, dick pics, and other social landmines so common to the field of online dating. Two things seem to be happening as a result of so many men being so gross and stupid.
First, many women are getting straight-up hostile. I can’t tell you how many profiles I’ve read where, as an intro, women lash out indiscriminately at every potential suitor, warning them about the aforementioned dick pic, or to move on if they voted for Trump, or to get lost if they’re just looking for a hookup, or if they have no job, or if they live at home with their momma like some scrub — as if this species of men would be deterred by words on a page.
My problem here is that decent men pay for the sins of others. We are a collective, it seems. If one man does it, it follows that other men will too. If men made similar generalizations about women, the blowback would be severe.
Second, perhaps as a result of the first issue, women just don’t seem to care anymore. This is evident with…
