Tinder, Hook-Ups and Feminism
In the age of my great grandmother, women were a priority. Men would have to treat the women in their life with respect, give them gifts and flowers and take them on romantic dates. Sex was not a near-future possibility, so both parties did not count on it. Now, what was once the priority has turned into an option, while romantic dates have become “Netflix and Chill.” A first date does not involve a man giving a woman flowers, but a woman giving a man a blowjob. Of course now women are also different from those living in the 1920s. If men treated modern prima donnas the same way as our great grandfathers treated their wives, they would either be friend zone or blocked on all social media. Women changed from being …show more content…
And why should they be when there is always a possibility to find someone better on the next swipe? “Guys view everything as a competition,” Alex, an investment banker, elaborates. “Who’s slept with the best, hottest girls?” With these dating apps, he says, “you’re always sort of prowling. You could talk to two or three girls at a bar and pick the best one, or you can swipe a couple hundred people a day—the sample size is so much larger. It’s setting up two or three Tinder dates a week and, chances are, sleeping with all of them, so you could rack up 100 girls you’ve slept with in a year.” Since women are easy, men can have more notches on their belts. I am sure none of those women mean anything to Alex other than a number. Tinder has turned dating into a shopping experience where you compare people like a pair of shoes. It has made sex as easy to get as a cheap trip to Cuba, pleasurable, fast and effective. It’s a new kind of Industrial Revolution, productivity levels are at their max. “Tinder” according to Dan, the investment banker, “It’s like ordering Seamless,” referring to the online food-delivery service. “But you’re ordering a person.” This sounds like cheap online ordering of prostitutes that have sex to prove their freedom. Casual Tinder sex might seem like sexual freedom for women, but in men’s eyes the picture takes a different angle. “I’ll get a text that says, ‘Wanna fuck?’” says Jennifer, 22, a senior at Indiana University in New Albany. “They’ll tell you, ‘Come over and sit on my face,’” says her friend, Ashley, 19. Tinder is being used by guys to pick up a well-dressed, hot and stylish “Tinderella” who is horny as hell. Now he is saving time and money, while having the same sex with his new Tinderella in a bathroom stall an hour after meeting for the first time. How romantic. “Sex has become so easy.” says John, 26, a marketing executive in New York. “I can go on my phone right now and
In the age of my great grandmother, women were a priority. Men would have to treat the women in their life with respect, give them gifts and flowers and take them on romantic dates. Sex was not a near-future possibility, so both parties did not count on it. Now, what was once the priority has turned into an option, while romantic dates have become “Netflix and Chill.” A first date does not involve a man giving a woman flowers, but a woman giving a man a blowjob. Of course now women are also different from those living in the 1920s. If men treated modern prima donnas the same way as our great grandfathers treated their wives, they would either be friend zone or blocked on all social media. Women changed from being …show more content…
And why should they be when there is always a possibility to find someone better on the next swipe? “Guys view everything as a competition,” Alex, an investment banker, elaborates. “Who’s slept with the best, hottest girls?” With these dating apps, he says, “you’re always sort of prowling. You could talk to two or three girls at a bar and pick the best one, or you can swipe a couple hundred people a day—the sample size is so much larger. It’s setting up two or three Tinder dates a week and, chances are, sleeping with all of them, so you could rack up 100 girls you’ve slept with in a year.” Since women are easy, men can have more notches on their belts. I am sure none of those women mean anything to Alex other than a number. Tinder has turned dating into a shopping experience where you compare people like a pair of shoes. It has made sex as easy to get as a cheap trip to Cuba, pleasurable, fast and effective. It’s a new kind of Industrial Revolution, productivity levels are at their max. “Tinder” according to Dan, the investment banker, “It’s like ordering Seamless,” referring to the online food-delivery service. “But you’re ordering a person.” This sounds like cheap online ordering of prostitutes that have sex to prove their freedom. Casual Tinder sex might seem like sexual freedom for women, but in men’s eyes the picture takes a different angle. “I’ll get a text that says, ‘Wanna fuck?’” says Jennifer, 22, a senior at Indiana University in New Albany. “They’ll tell you, ‘Come over and sit on my face,’” says her friend, Ashley, 19. Tinder is being used by guys to pick up a well-dressed, hot and stylish “Tinderella” who is horny as hell. Now he is saving time and money, while having the same sex with his new Tinderella in a bathroom stall an hour after meeting for the first time. How romantic. “Sex has become so easy.” says John, 26, a marketing executive in New York. “I can go on my phone right now and