The Importance Of Dating Apps For College Students
Being a college student is difficult, to say the least. Having to juggle homework, extracurricular activities and job(s), is a constant balancing act.
College students are walking on a tightrope, trying to juggle all this weight and trying not to fall as well. College students use many means to make their life easier like using technology if it’s possible.
One way that students use technology to better their life is when it comes to dating.
The creation of dating apps comes as a blessing to students, who want to meet someone but don’t have the time to go out and meet people or be forcibly introduced to people by their parents.
On Towson’s campus, a number of dating apps are used, such as, Tinder, Grindr, and sometimes Yik Yak.
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For example, if you send a person a message expressing interest in them and they say, “I don’t date black people. Sorry, it’s a preference.”
Do you ask yourself; is it really a preference for them or something else?
Sexual racism is the act of excluding certain groups from your dating pool based on their race.
When you exclude a whole group of people from your dating pool, I think you have to realize why that’s not a preference, but instead hidden racism.
A preference is something you prefer to something else. For example, you could prefer to date men with long hair than to men with short hair, but race isn’t a preference.
Some dating apps, such as, Grindr and Yik Yak, enable, whether intentional or not, the racism and discrimination by not blocking users or blocking the language users use.
These dating apps allow users to put sayings like, “No femmes. No rice, which means I don’t date Asians. No curry, which means I don’t date Indians. No blacks. Only biological females. I’m clean.”
These apps allow users to discriminate people by race, by gender and by so-called
College students are walking on a tightrope, trying to juggle all this weight and trying not to fall as well. College students use many means to make their life easier like using technology if it’s possible.
One way that students use technology to better their life is when it comes to dating.
The creation of dating apps comes as a blessing to students, who want to meet someone but don’t have the time to go out and meet people or be forcibly introduced to people by their parents.
On Towson’s campus, a number of dating apps are used, such as, Tinder, Grindr, and sometimes Yik Yak.
Tinder is a …show more content…
For example, if you send a person a message expressing interest in them and they say, “I don’t date black people. Sorry, it’s a preference.”
Do you ask yourself; is it really a preference for them or something else?
Sexual racism is the act of excluding certain groups from your dating pool based on their race.
When you exclude a whole group of people from your dating pool, I think you have to realize why that’s not a preference, but instead hidden racism.
A preference is something you prefer to something else. For example, you could prefer to date men with long hair than to men with short hair, but race isn’t a preference.
Some dating apps, such as, Grindr and Yik Yak, enable, whether intentional or not, the racism and discrimination by not blocking users or blocking the language users use.
These dating apps allow users to put sayings like, “No femmes. No rice, which means I don’t date Asians. No curry, which means I don’t date Indians. No blacks. Only biological females. I’m clean.”
These apps allow users to discriminate people by race, by gender and by so-called