Tinder's Forgotten Woman: Whitney Wolfe, Sexism, and Startup Creation Myths
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#2Despite the linkbaity headline, this article actually adds new information and context to the controversy.
Also, NSFW Instagram images.
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#3Pretty shocking revelations. Was this ever revealed before? Only because of Wolfe's firing?
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#4Pretty shocking revelations. Was this ever revealed before? Only because of Wolfe's firing?
s/firing/lawsuit
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#5Pretty shocking revelations. Was this ever revealed before? Only because of Wolfe's firing?
The author had done an article on Tinder last year: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-05/dating-app-t...
It's likely that current events help explain some oddities in Tinder's past.
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#6Interesting that Tinder is owned by the company behind Match.com.
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#7The "Tinderslut"[1] comment says a lot about how Rad and Mateen view the women who use their app. It's consistent with Wolfe's claim in her complaint that Mateen told her it would be "slutty" to be a female Tinder co-founder, because it was an app people used to hook up.
As an aside, Mateen exhibits the textbook Madonna-whore dichotomy. To him, women are either someone he can see being a wife (Wolfe pre-breakup), or a whore/bimbo/slut (the women on his Instagram feed). When she rejected him, in classic fashion she went from the former bucket to the latter. This is a case study for a gender-studies paper.
[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tinderslut
Re: Tinder's Forgotten Woman: Whitney Wolfe, Sexism, and Startup Creation Myths
#8Despite the linkbaity headline, this article actually adds new information and context to the controversy. Also, NSFW Instagram images.
Yes people. Please flag [EDIT, as in write "NSFW" when applicable. Thanks shawnz]. The article feels that is going to be serious, which it kind of is, but then the pics. What was the point of that? The writer could not have simply mentioned the pics?
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#9Interesting that Tinder is owned by the company behind Match.com.
Not just owned, but incubated by their employees. That completely blows me away that IAC is so, so good at rebranding for different audiences.
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#10Despite the linkbaity headline, this article actually adds new information and context to the controversy. Also, NSFW Instagram images.
Yes people. Please flag [EDIT, as in write "NSFW" when applicable. Thanks shawnz]. The article feels that is going to be serious, which it kind of is, but then the pics. What was the point of that? The writer could not have simply mentioned the pics ?
This is one of the very few contexts where those types of images are completely relevant, but I'm surprised there wasn't a warning in the article.