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As a guy, I couldn't care less that these kinds of things exist. This app will be used exclusively by a superficial audience who I would have absolutely no interest in meeting. If anything, I'd quite like to end up on this with extremely negative reviews just so the horrible people using this will stay the fuck away from me.

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Imagine you were going to go out on a date with a new woman and you knew there was a "review" of her online that you could download for free in 10 seconds.

Would you not be tempted to at least look? I mean you know it's just superficial crap, but you might have a look; just for laughs of course..

Or you meet a new girl out somewhere and get her phone number, then your buddy comes to you and says "haha, dude that chick you met.. says here she gives a terrible blowjob! LOL!"

I mean, you'd like to think that stuff wouldn't colour your judgement at all..

No, not really, why in the hell would I want to know what other people think about her? They obviously didn't get on perfectly because they're not still dating - QED.

And if my 'buddy' said that he'd get a polite "fuck off".

But then those people will talk to their friends, and so on. And, contrary to what you might think, there's plenty of highly educated women who are sufficiently steeped in feminism (due to the process of acquiring that higher education) to see this as perfectly fair payback for patriarchy's many evils, and to use it without regret. So you end up targeting a thin sliver of possible women: not too superficial, but not too educated, and with no friends in either of those categories. Good luck with your dating.

>there's plenty of highly educated women who are sufficiently steeped in feminism (due to the process of acquiring that higher education) to see this as perfectly fair payback for patriarchy's many evils, and to use it without regret.

Your implicit attack on morals derived from feminism reveals a failure to understand feminism and its ideals and effects. Furthermore, demonizing "plenty of highly educated women" as eye-for-an-eye combatants seeking revenge for patriarchy isn't just silly, it's offensive.

Obviously it's not black and white, but my point was to disabuse jshakes of his (frankly elitist) notion that only superficial and uninterestng people would be exposed to this app's ratings.

Well-educated people - both women and men, actually - are in fact more likely to be feminists (due to the cultural milieu at most universities, if nothing else), and feminists are in fact not unlikely to approve of things like Lulu as well-deserved reversals of privilege. I'm not saying all of them would (in fact, I am a feminist myself, and I do not), but it's not rare, either, and I've seen that kind of reaction from people I would not consider superficial or uninteresting.

That's not an attack on anything, it's just me sharing my personal experience. And who are you to say that my experience is invalid, or silly? I think that's far more offensive than anything I've said.

1. This is never going to be popular enough for that scenario to really play out

2. "Highly Educated" and "Decent, intelligent human being" are different things. It's nice when they collide, but they don't always.

3. Not all education leads to idiotic opinions like these.

Other than that, obviously everything you've said there is totally true, in that I think that covers everything you've said there.

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