A couple of months ago I came across this very controversial, interesting ,online piece written by a female artist ,about men and their creepy online behavior on Tinder, a very popular phone app , used to find partners for casual sex encounters.
http://ift.tt/RMFVhk My first impression was that it was freakin' hilarious!
I laughed at how she depicted creepy men, because it was funny.
But on closer examination , I realized that the woman was actually deeply offended, and I found that to be
even more hilarious.
Here's why.
Firstly , I had to search for what the Tinder App , actually is.
Tinder, is a hook up site / phone App that allows people to posts provocative pics of themselves, and an interested party either votes yes or no on their pics , a the app makes a " match" and they start a conversation.
Basically , Tinder is an App that objectifies both sexes on the basis of their physical and sexual appeal, and makes a match.
When a female clicks " yes" on the pic of a shirtless man in a seductive pose, what they are actually saying is:
"
yes, he has a hot body and I would do him , I hope he finds me sexy and attractive too.."
If she leaves her contact information on Tinder, a "match" is made by the app based on common, stated interests. Hence if a male stated on his profile that he's looking for casual sex , and her profile said that she's looking for friendship , then there is no match and he cannot contact her , neither can she contact him.
When they're " matched" , makes no sense a man trying to get her impression of postmodernist , Michael Foucault's thesis on power , if she has communicated her interest in
casual sex only.After all ,logically there would be other " matches " or potential partners interested only in sex. No one wants to waste time on trivialities, when the scent of sex is in the air.
Ostensibly , her actions amount to a type of hypocrisy . Like a person going to the fish market asking for Chinese food and complaining that the market smells fishy.
But I found her article [ and art, lol!] interesting ,and the reader comments at the bottom of the page even more interesting.
Just reinforced my belief that objectification , like Foucault's
"
discursive power " is everywhere and not as one sided as some tend to portray it.
But those men in her article, imo , are still creepy.
So why would she subject herself to
those types of men Tinder?
Maybe she likes creepy men?:rofl:
BTW, Tinder boasts over 10 million daily users, and is available in 24 different languages.
Your thoughts?
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