"Strangers on the Internet" Podcast Episode 14: Ten Years of Tinder - Where Are We Now?

We discuss a decade of mainstream dating app swiping

The fourteenth episode (Apple Podcasts link here and Spotify link here) of Strangers on the Internet with co-host and psychologist Michelle Lange has us reviewing some of us the recent popular writings on the topic of ten years of Tinder, including on the issue of burnout (see here and here).

We cover how apps have gamified dating and how some women have raised their standards in positive ways while others come in with unfair expectations and act flaky. Should women tell each other "You're the prize!", and what should we think about men who make Venmo requests after dates? Can people date casually and then decide from one day to the next it's time to settle down? Warning: your hosts are in a spicy mood on this episode!

 

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[Dr. Ed 2]

At what point will women learn that their grandmothers weren't always wrong...

[Dr. Ed 2]

I'm going to say this:

Yes, life is short and love is scarce, and hence you want everyone (even female lawyers) to find love. Any decent person does.

But other than the possible use of their sex organs, exactly what are these women bringing to the relationship? What do they *have* to bring to the relationship?

The home-cooked meal is from another era -- and anyone with a Visa card can purchase equal quality meals in a restaurant. The role of women as nurturers has also been abandoned. So what is the man to see in the woman?

The sex bots are already here -- they will evolve over the next decade much the way that internet porn did over the past two -- and the sexbots will be able to do things that no human woman ever could.

Hence the question I quietly ask these women is exactly why would a man want you???

[Dr. Ed 2]

And to irritate the few people I already haven't, I firmly believe that the Lord created men to protect women from other men -- and created women to protect men from OURSELVES.

[Nige]

Might as well ask why any woman would want a man.

[rloquitur]

Should women tell each other "You're the prize!", and what should we think about men who make Venmo requests after dates?

In my view, as a man, a Venmo request after a date should be red flag city for a woman.