Romance is in its death throes. We will not fall in love. We will not respect each other. We will simply stick it in and slip out unnoticed before the alarm goes off in the morning. In the opening paragraphs, we are introduced to three mid-twenties Manhattanite men with well paying jobs, and attitudes towards women that border on pathological.
Not only is it a competition β Alex is winning. Fuckboys have always existed we used to call the cads , but the piece argues that dating apps have sparked a rapid evolution. Now fuckboys have access to willing women whenever they want, and because being nice is no longer a necessary component of sexual success, more young men are becoming fuckboys. To an extent, it will. Tinder and other apps like it have made it easier than ever to find a warm body to cuddle up next to.
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Tinder as a platform thrives on the perpetuation of the idea that it, and other apps like it, are a great place for anonymous sex. There seems to be this collective delusion that location-based dating apps are the silver bullet all men have been looking for β the innovation that will make women want to fuck like men. For some women, that certainly is the case. You want to have wild, anonymous sex with a cute guy in your area? Go for it. Sleep with a couple who are gagging to find a unicorn?
They, and the article itself, have made one fundamental error. Because Tinder is a hookup app, they think they have to hook up when they use it. The article describes young straight people exchanging hypersexualised texts before they ever even meet, then getting blind drunk in order to override their own social aversion to getting physical within a few moments of seeing each other face to face.
Then, once the sex is over, things go right back to being painfully awkward and unpleasant. Which⦠ew. Our analogue encounter was perfectly sufficient. Pretty much every woman I know has a story like this.
