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Tinder and other dating apps are making it even harder...

People will say that it's because of the creeps etc, but as long as men have almost no matches if they don't pay, it's not going to lead to a good experience, which leads to even worse experience for women who won't use it.

Online dating deserves it's awful reputation.

It's time that a good documentary highlights how those platforms work.




Top 80% of women compete for the top 20% of men on dating apps. And then, there is a funnel where unpartnered women race to find a partner in their 30s for those who race to have kids before fertility rates decline.

No one likes online dating, but everyone still defaults to it because third spaces where pairings traditionally occurred are evaporating.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091121080804/http://blog.okcup...

https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...

https://www.profgalloway.com/a-fewer-good-men/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/03/marry-h...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6692099-marry-him

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6731751/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place


What’s with that Quillette site being so right wing? Seems sus


Replaced that specific link with improved citations.


Countering progressive over-reach is not the same as being right-wing.




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