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SantaRPidgey posted...

There's another thing I want to point out on the side of dating apps and incels. I noticed as I was swiping, I was feeling disgust/anger for perfectly normal women based on innocuous things in their profile. The moment I deleted hinge was when I was scrolling through a beautiful girl's profile, who had similar interests, saw that she liked settlers of catan and, with literal distain, thought "Ugh catan sucks" and swiped left (or whatever the hinge version of turning her down was)

It reminded me of a recent study I heard about where playing games without voice chat increases our aggression when we play online, because we assume the worst, and we're not having a human experience with the other person.

I want to put this out there, because it's easy to blame incels but we have to consider there's multiple tech companies out there literally playing/experimenting with their millions of users psyche for their own profit.

To play devils advocate, would you feel the same disdain if a guy (say, a new male coworker) was discussing his interests at lunch and mentioned he likes video games, board games, etc. and said he loves Catan specifically?

Literally every corporation in the entire world is attempting to play with your psyche for profit. But its also not profitable for them to intentionally manipulate you to feelings of disgust towards women using the app too - thats the opposite of what theyre trying to manipulate you towards!

You cant blame your attitude towards women on dating app companies (especially when it doesnt even make logical sense for them to manipulate you that way). Thats exactly what the incel subculture does - they pretend that they have no agency and that feminism/Chads/liberals/the government/whatever is holding them back and thats the only reason that they cant succeed.