Beasting247

Sifting through messages from people already interested in you and sifting through profiles trying to come up with a clever attention-grabbing first message to send to a girl who will respond maybe 10% of the time are not even remotely on the same level in terms of time commitment and inconvenience.

I'm going to provide my ideas/feedback.

Unlike a lot of the other people on here, I like the Facebook integration, provided of course nobody else on my Facebook can see that I've added this app. It saves the hassle of having to upload pictures and lowers the proportion of fake accounts.

As a male (23 years old), I've completely written off online dating. Sites like OkCupid make total sense if you're a female because you don't actually have to do any work, but they absolutely suck for men. Women are inundated with messages and rarely respond, and thus as a male you have to spend hours and hours sifting through profiles and sending tons of messages. On top of that, very few of the women on dating sites are even attractive.

That's why I prefer Tinder, although it'd be nice to have a middle ground between the shallowness of Tinder and a dating site.

It's great that this site saves time on the user's part (mainly the male). The problem is that it doesn't seem like I can see what my potential match looks like. Being a male, looks are pretty important. That's why I stopped going on Groupers - my last one hooked us up with 3 unattractive women. It sounds shallow and fucked up, but that's just the reality of it.

Until a service comes along that hooks me up with women that I know will be physically attractive enough from the get-go, I'm not going to pay money for it. And since most hot women are already inundated with guys trying to ask them out in real life, I'm not sure if a site like that could ever exist.

This article takes way too long to get to the point. Can I get the Cliff-Notes?

I was talking on a societal scale. Obviously in any specific instance of sexism/harassment, people can and should stand up.

> "A culprit, many people in the field say, is a sexist, alpha-male culture that can make women and other people who don’t fit the mold feel unwelcome, demeaned or even endangered."

Wait, did someone just call programmer culture an "alpha-male" culture? That's hilarious.

When are people going to stop bitching about there not being enough women in <insert industry of choice>? Who cares? Like another comment said - nobody complains about there not being enough men in nursing.

I'm really sick of this whole victimization mindset that a lot of women embrace. In any male-dominated industry, there are bound to be cases of sexual harassment and misconduct. Nobody condones that. And frankly, there's really not much more anybody can do to fix it.

Technology and programming are among the most meritocratic industries in existence. All it takes is a computer and an internet connection. If you can code well and build great things, nobody cares whether you're a woman or some 13 year old nerd with Asperger's who gets bullied at school.

Oh and if you're outraged by some dumb boob app that a couple guys coded for fun at a Hackathon, you have your head way too far up your ass and need to stop taking yourself so seriously.

Finance and consulting are the biggest brain drains and it's a huge impediment to society. But until someone starts leveling the playing field compensation-wise, our brightest graduates will continue to flock to finance/consulting.

The real problem with all these stories is that it's as if the police are above the law and not held accountable for abusing it. They should all be thrown in jail and have their badges removed. Nothing sickens me more than people who abuse their authority over innocent people (eg. child molesters. yes, I compared corrupt policemen to child molesters)