“Want to be attractive to online daters? Be biracial.”
“Looking different “could be beneficial rather than a reason to be discriminated against” in the online dating game, said study co-author Ken-Hou Lin, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Examining millions of initial messages sent between straight men and women between 2003 and 2010 on a large U.S. dating site, the researchers found that the premium placed on daters who self-identified as only white wasn’t as high as they originally thought…
Among all groups, Lin said men didn’t play racial favorites as much as women did. Except when it comes to black women, who were responded to the least.
That doesn’t surprise D.C. Tinder and Hinge user J.Q., a 24-year-old black woman who agreed to be identified only by her initials. “People sort of like the whole ‘ambiguously ethnic thing’ because it’s still safe,” she says. You can experience new cultures and ethnicities without going so far outside your comfort zone, she said of dating people who are biracial.”
This is really interesting. And the way that being biracial is treated in general in our culture, like it’s proof of something. Like biracial people are the commodities of a society to show that it is free of prejudice; being in communication with them is being in communication with “Change”.
Related: “Yes, Your Dating Preferences Are Probably Racist”; “I’m a Single Black Girl and I Refuse to be Scared by the Statistics Saying I Will Never Get Married”
