I agree. As a black man, I don’t think this app adding an ethnicity filter is racist and if people think it is they don’t have to turn it on.
Y’all give the people who don’t want it the option to not have it but y’all neglect those of us that do want it.

You have filters for weight
Sex position
Body type etc etc why not add the ethnicity filter for us that want to use it. As a black man I’m attracted to white men.

Some of us pay good money for this app, to be able to use the filters

Ethnicity filter for those that pays unlimited/Xtra we should have the option to select what we like and what we do not if we are paying customers we should have the option since is a preference and not a racist option.

I would have a setting toggle and call it "Additional Filtering" - Ethnicity. Then people that don't want it can leave it off, no offending anyone.

what could be the cause of this anger, i wonder?

Hey JF. I agree - to me i am white but often attracted to black men - its an attraction not racism.
Just as well as some people dont like my age - i dont see that as “age-racism” its pure attraction as with eye colour, hair colour, body type, cock size, top-bttm-versatile, gender types, sexual lusts and stuff.

grindr is a dating app for gays searching gays not a political tool for anything.

i understand that racism excists in many countries - espcially in the GOP dominated USA - and I hate racism - all people are equal if they treat other people nice - also when not agreeing and issues.

people like the types here writing angry and hatefull messages should consult a terapist or their local GOP representatives.

I pay for this app.
It better do what I need it to.. I need to be able to filter ethnicity to my liking.
I don’t care what ANYONE thinks.. kick rocks.

Wow - so much anger.

Some guys should see a terapist.

Anyways attraction is attraction - not any ‘ism.

I use to be an EXTRA/UNLIMITED customer until y’all randomly decided to remove the “ethnicity” filter . So it’s racist for us to filter our type in that aspect but it’s acceptable to filter everything else ; body & height?? You are losing a lot of subscribers because of this. Jack’d & other dating apps have no issue and have not removed the filter please don’t be that one app that’s weird and does the most. Just bring back the filter and I’ll gladly pay and join again. Other than that, I don’t see y’all being better than Jack’d or even Adam4Adam anytime soon.

Phil,

1. This topic is the "ethnicity filter," not the muscle/fat/hairy filter. So, there you go. Make a topic on that or find it.
2. There are a whole lot more Chinese in the US than Korean, Japanese, Malay, Indonesians, etc... And yes, some of us have had Vietnamese (my 1st) and Korean (a former roommate of mine) bfs.

So, what in the hell is the point of asking, besides to look like an ass?

The amount of times I’ve also seen the word “Chinese guy”…do y’all even know the difference between the 3? It’s so cringe when people refer to any asian as “Chinese” because of their American ignorance. We really need to do better.

Every single thread I’ve read is based on race issues. Let that sink in. No one has mentioned the other uses filters had. Like singling out certain body types you’re not attracted too, height etc. It’s just “I want it back so I can find my exotic king 😭”. Sucks it up and keep scrolling.

Yeah I did hijacked the thread , so what... It's not like you were gonna achieve anything

aww.. ..eventide, you're so cute.
puffing up yer little chest on here, talking like you're the grindr uservoice forum enforcer.

i wonder..
..based on what qualifications, exactly, do you presume your shitty opinions are worth more than my well-thought out statements?
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though, yeah.
yeah, you're right, eventide.

"we" do need a filter.
a filter to help "us" be rid of absolute, wastes of space, wastes of breath, wastes of life trash like yourself.

🥰

[strike]i presume you're white, or someone non-white who fancies trying to align himself with the (problematic) Kolonizing Klan of the world, right?
indeed.
and here you are in 2022, arguing with a black man and a latin man about race matters.[/strike]

and here you are in 2022: a white man arguing with a black man and a latin man about how we're supposed to handle race matters.

classic.

i probably shouldn't mention this here but, something else i've learned some time ago about you and your ilk, is whenever you are asked it directly, you never will openly respond with "No I am not prejudiced nor racist against anyone" or "Yes I am racist and prejudiced and proud of it — and these are the fuckers who I detest because of their race."

of course, i don't expect any better from your ad hominem-ing ass eventide.

but, ya know?
go ahead.
please do share with "us," what is it you know about the subject of prejudice, discrimination, bias, oppression, racism, etc. — which joshua and i don't?

come.

is this a direct question you feel up for answering directly, or are you just gonna ad-hominem yourself away from that too?

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juan?

are you directing that critique towards steve and eventide (and ES, apparently?)..
..or did you direct that critique towards joshua and i?

for the record, i'm not "forcing" the colour discriminators to find sexual attraction for anyone — i'm only "forcing" them to acknowledge the reasoning behind their prejudice and how, on the whole, discrimination solely because of someone's skin colour, nationality, or bloodline is pretty dumb and senseless

there is no equating a MSM's espousing a categorical "no indians" or "no blacks" or "no arabs" (and so on) to a MSM's espousing a categorical "no women"

i know for a fact i was BORN with almost zero natural attraction to the female gender — there was no one in my household grooming me to not desire women, NOR was anyone in my household grooming me to want a hard dick in my mouth

me lusting for men and not lusting for women is what you very much-can consider a "biological imperative" over which i had no control; NOR had i had this disposition taught me by anyone.

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what *is* so "different" about me, i wonder?
why don't i go around saying "no whites" or "no asians" or "no blacks" or "no latinos" (etc.)?

how is it possible, i find all nationalities / bloodlines equally appealing?

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on second thought.
nah.

never mind all that.
i know i'm only preaching to the choir, posing that kinda rhetorical.

eventide / steve, and whoever else: i know you're just gonna come back with further garbage.
further garbage, that will not address why you NEED to filter out by race.

so please don't bother.

be happy you and i both agree you discriminators SHOULD have your race filter restored.

oh.
by the way.
do you have a problem with me calling you "discriminators"?
but, is that not what you are?
i can readily tell you i sexually-exclude 99.01 - 99.98% of all transsexual / transgender women — MtFs.
almost all MtFs, i never shall willingly go to bed with.

but, you observe how easy that was for me?
i owned up to an entire group i sexually preclude. (i can even explain for you why i preclude MtFs, if you're curious.).
there are other attributes people might have —some attributes of which, they have no immediate control over— which would cause me to "automatically" preclude them from my attraction pool; though for the sake of "staying on topic" eventide i won't mention them here.

😂

No need to look for homophobia in straight people, homophobia at is greatest comes from gay people that refuse to accept other gays people's behaviour at the same time that they mandate others to respect theirs. Nobody was born obliged to like anyone. Let people go freely to what people like, why are you acting like the traditional fanatic churches forcing others to see and do what you considere morally correct, which usually is not.

Bruh clearly you need therapy more than I do.

You get triggered so easily. Your hate just bounces off me. seems like you so desperately need this filter or maybe you want this option so other can filter you out. Well good luck getting it by attacking people in this thread.

joshua david serrao,

I tried to be nice, but now I am tired of your shit. I earned a PhD in a field that required me to learn the details of the subject, and I tried to leave those details out and present you with the gist. But, rather than take that and present a rational rebuttal, you are calling people racist whom you've never met, and it seems like you clearly don't have the maturity to learn what the meaning of the word is? In this entire discussion you have not presented a logical argument and sometimes are even near completely incoherent. You are arguing purely out of emotional anger and resentment. Clearly, at this point you are just arguing to make yourself feel better, or you just cannot grasp that people wanted to have a rational discussion.

I suggested numerous times that you provide a coherent argument to this topic in order to have a rational discussion, but you're just a miserable individual who cannot love himself, and you apparently need to take that anger and direct it to the entire gay community. I don't know what you stand to accomplish with your crap, except to bring others to your misery. So, as far as I'm concerned, you can fuck off with your bullshit; I'd suggest you seek therapy. DELETE the app, as you, yourself, suggested the rest of us do, and live alone with your miserable self if it angers you so much; perhaps meet guys at a bar or sport club, or whatever. In any case, I am no longer participating in the discussion with you. You and I have turned it into a shit show. I hope you can find some semblance of joy in your life, and I hope you are at least educated in your professional field.

Be sure to include lots of ethnicities.

@Anonymous ( April 28, 2022 14:48 )

I appreciate your response, in which you were being reasonable and respectful with me.

Regarding the policing of preferences (a word which, in this context, I'd almost always place within quotation marks) — in spite of my strong words thus far, I'll reäffirm that I am *quite* 'in favour' of an in-app ethnicity filter, for the racists / prejudiced fellows to employ.

Let it be known: I *had* been (and am presently) working on another response for the 2 - 3 individuals who, thus far, have seen fit to ad hominem / logical-fallacy me here — in this response, I happen to detail, further, how I believe the restored race filter should work.
No need to worry.. ..My proposed caveats, at their worst, affect neither the discriminator / discriminatee. If anything, the discriminators should be tickled pink.

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Addressing this to the general forum / my current set of detractors:

Years ago, I'd arrived to the conclusion, I live in a world with many humans who just can't be reasoned with. Humans who, functionally, are "lost causes," who are better off disposed of than to be allowed to continue on, wreaking havoc and causing other innocent humans undue misery.

• If you are a *rump supporter / sympathizer
• If you believe racism / oppression is not an issue
• If you're a "pick yourself up by the bootstrap" espouser
• If you believe in "rules for thee, but not for me,"

technically, I've already written you off.
I know I won't be changing your mind, much in the same way you may be assured you will never change my mind.

And supposing you did, somehow, manage that, I'd be a fool to believe you'd embrace me unconditionally: because, long before I came out swinging on this forum, you already decided you didn't "like my kind." Because of my skin.

I'm still amazed you don't come out and say "I don't like the black race." Fucked up as that is, I wouldn't advocate for your being banned / banished off here for making that kind of declaration, of itself.
It's when you start bringing in the extra shit that I have the problem.

joshua david serrao,

Look, you can hate the game all you want. I've hated it also. Grindr ISN'T changing the game. That's an insult to the permanence of the game (i.e., evolution). Men want to spread their genetic material to as many SUITABLE mates as possible; guess what, that's what happens in the natural world for many species. It's hard to overcome hundreds of thousands of years of that built-in strategy, a consequence of evolution..

You aren't going to convince millions of gays to delete Grindr, and you're not going to convince them to refrain from instant gratification. And Grindr isn't going to make a racist not racist. Thinking that it can is an insult to the problem of racism. Sexual attraction to certain people isn't racism; it's a combination of things, including evolving to prevent inbreeding, say, and evolution to find a mate suitable for the climate your ancestors evolved in: having dark skin in a climate that's cold and low-light isn't good for survival, having white skin in a hot, high-light climate also tended to not go well. So, you're programmed, by evolution, to disregard them as suitable mates. OFC, there are exceptions. For example, when the inbreeding defense overcomes the desire for a suitable mate who is adapted to the climate your ancestors evolved in. It's a complicated play of many factors, some of which simply cannot be changed. And the whole being gay is also thought to be an evolutionary adaptation to allow a species to not completely devolve when there are no suitable female mates: males tend to fight, having some gays reduces that aggression to other males so that they don't kill each other off. Thinking that an APP can change the hundreds of thousands of years of complicated sexual evolution is pure HUBRIS of mankind.

However, that is NOT the discussion for THIS SUBTOPIC. Instead of hijacking the discussion, it would have been MUCH more efficient to discuss this topic (WHETHER THE ETHNICITY FILTER SHOULD BE REINSTATED) here, and your other gripes under their OWN subtopic, using FOCUSED arguments for that topic.

While you didn't get my point atleast you proved me right. Thanks. Cheers.

Not expecting anything more than sex that's true . But won't put up with crap either . I watched heart stopper on Netflix recently and there is the part where the dude feels like it's his fault in everything by his mere presence , so mirrored my experience.