But the piece, for me, was actually about the collision of technology and misogyny. In talking to scores of young women and men in New York, Indiana and Delaware, I heard story after story of sexual harassment on dating apps, where women said graphic messages from strangers were not uncommon. And then there was the presumptuous attitude of men who assumed that a right swipe meant an invitation to have sex. There were the young men I spoke to who seemed to find in the increased accessibility of potential sex partners provided by dating apps a temptation to dehumanize women.
Your app panders to the lazy and tech addicted. Bring back retro dating! During all this commotion, it turns out that McLeod was experiencing a kind of crisis.
So nothing in his makeup nor his original plans for his company fit in with it becoming a way for Wall Street fuckboys to get laid. But as a C. In November of , McLeod and his team, based in a loft in the Flatiron district, set about collecting data.
They sent out multiple surveys with scores of questions to more than , of their users and received tens of thousands of responses.
Seven in 10 surveyed women on the leading swiping app have received sexually explicit messages or images. The new Hinge looks and feels more like Instagram, with users posting more pictures, giving each other a more complete idea of their lives than the typical dating app. They still know which friends they have in common and now can post images of their friends, giving a more personal window into their inner circle.
