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Swipe right on a more feminist dating scene

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By Zaquoya Rogers

Buzz… buzz… have you heard of Bumble?

Bumble is a dating app, sort of like Tinder, but it takes a very different approach. Created in 2014, Bumble has been under the radar, until there was a rumor that Amy Schumer met her current boyfriend on the dating app.

The rumor was debunked, but Bumble still gained some clout. Basically, how Bumble works is you swipe on profiles of people that pop up. Right for yes, left for no. In that way it seems pretty similar to Tinder, but instead it takes quite a feminist turn.

After two people match, it is up to the girl to start the conversation… and she has 24 hours or else… POOF!.. The match is gone. Many ask how Bumble came about and the reason is quite common and timely: sexual harassment in the workplace.

A woman named Whitney Woolf, essentially the co-founder and former CEO of Tinder, created the spinoff app. She dealt with immense sexual harassment and discrimination among her male co-founders. She was even put down by being told her “woman presence on the team made the company seem less legitimate.”

She then graced us all with the openly feminist app of Bumble. Bumble is feminist because it diminishes the doubt that women may have of being “too thirsty or forward” if they start the conversation first. In this case, you have to, girl! Woolf’s whole intention is to make a true feminist app that helps break that disconnect and social double standard in the start of new relationships.