Why did they remove it?? They got all scared about BLM????

This should be addressed and out back as this is nothing to do with racism. People still have revisit behaviours regardless of whether there is such filter or not. Ethnicity filter has got nothing to do with racism!!!

@m:

Like it or not, m, and regardless of whether it stems from a flawed social construct of race, or whether it is “fair,” for a lot of us sexual attraction is directly linked to what we perceive to be race.

Reading the other comments on here, I gather a lot of users on this site are attracted to only one ethnic type, and it seems often not to be their own. I am sure others have an exclusive preference for their own kind, while perhaps others have broader tastes. Regardless, since a large number of users are here for a hookup, and they know what they like, no amount of diversity training is going to make them want to have an afternoon of fun with an ethnic group they find repugnant.

While there are probably some bisexual men who use this site, many men here are not at all interested in having sex with a cis woman; does that make them sexists? Is the idea of having a site that is exclusive to men who like to have sex with men sexist? Imagine a dating or hookup site that did not allow a gay man to filter whom he was looking for or who was looking at him; he might logically offend every straight cis man he approaches while being grossed out by every straight cis woman who approaches him. While everyone suggests that gender is merely a social construct, and that therefore the genders with whom anyone chooses to have sexual intimacy are a matter of social conditioning, I don’t think that when anyone is selecting a potential person with whom to hook up he or she is willing consciously to lay aside his or her social conditioning in order that he or she might engage in sexual intimacy with someone of a gender that they find a complete turn-off. And so it is with race.

AS A PERSON WITH A B.A. IN SOCIAL WORK AND BACKGROUND IN SOCIAL JUSTICE: In my humble opinion of course...

To start you have categories AND filter for everything from what position people like, thier body type, how someone "acts", and wants to be called, picture no picture. Pretty much every judgmental physical feature EXCEPT a ethnicity filter! Not having this filter is not only a slap in the face to ALL of the PAID members, mind you, that have been making REPEATED comments and request about this in the place where OUR voices are suppose to be hear. After-all, this is the "WAYS TO MAKE GRIND BETTER" page that YOU send us to make suggestions and ways, and dare I say again, ways to make Grindr better! I mean WTF 🤯? We'll agree some request are just 🚀🤔🙄😴 but this is something more realistic since it once was an option.

I can understand that the removal of such filter was a well intend attempt of Grindr trying to be All Encompassing/Exclusive, Non-Bias, Not Being Able To Be Judged By Race, or Whatnot. You know be "Political Correct"! What they DO NOT realize that that are even MORE discriminating against those minority groups that rarely show up, because hate to break it to you Grindr but the majority of your members Paid or otherwise (that still make you 🤑) are WHITE! Not to mention discriminating against interracial interactions, friendship, and relationships. Whether those be sexual ones or otherwise! Like MANY other comments have stated: Some people like to interact with others that are different from themselves. That in itself is NOT racism or being racist Grindr. That is about what a person happens to be drawn and physically attracted to. Ever heard the saying "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder"? Being racist is how you treat a person during an interaction with that said person. That is where a simply report (THAT EXISTS ALREADY) and / or the block the person!

I won’t upgrade until ethnicity filter is restored. Please bring it back. There is no racism in selecting preferences for getting laid. Everyone has choices. If u think it’s racism then tribes would also be racism in future one day when society is divided based on age and demographic division.

@bottom it’s not racist to know what I’m attracted to.

Do not add this back. These people fail to admit racism still exists in our community. The option itself is basically promoting racism. And to the one person in this comment section that called Grindr heterophobic, ARE YOU INSANE... Grindr is a GAY app not many exist. There are plenty of other apps for straight people they don’t need to come ruin Grindr for us.

Because filter is important as is age, appearance, color shape en so on, so maybe you can think about how to do the same filter ethically. If not I will not renew

Soy hombre mix latino me gustan blancos, negros o árabes. Me gustan hombres deportistas o delgados, depende de la conexión y la química ,, no soy racista. Restaurar esta función. Por favor.
Gracias

Why can’t we cut through what we don’t want to be with? You let us pick, top bottom age weight, yet you stop is from choosing what ethnic diversity we want to be with. How is that being in bias? I only been with caucasian man, and don’t worry any to be with any other race. That not to say I won’t interact with me but sexual I don’t have any desire to.

I'm a white guy who's not into other white guys. Something about their pale, veiny, white/pink dicks just makes me want to puke. I want to be able to fast forward to any other race in my area, because I would rock their world. Anyone that isn't just another fat, white, Timothy McVeigh. For fuck's sake. I can't even believe this is a debate.

I'm not paying one more dime for grinder tell grinder brings back ethnicity filter grinder is not worth paying for no more

Please restore it. Don’t use it if you don’t want to.

Maybe add hung

With this logic grindr should remove every filter.

With this logic, Grindr should remove the filter for age - is it ageism to not prefer to sleep with a guy who is decades older? It's ridiculous that I can't find skin tone attractive, and that has absolutely nothing to do with racism

Having a preference for ethnicity/skin tone is not racist.

Racial preference for sex or finding a partner is no different than having a preference for tall/short men, thin/thick build, guys with beards, or any other characteristic.

To restrict the community in that way is in fact disabling us to be FREE in our choices of who we want to interact with, and wasting our time manually filtering through profiles.

We can not change who we ARE Or ARE NOT sexually attracted to. If black or Latino etc men is your thing, it’s Not something you can help.

If we can accept trannies/females and give them a filter, surely we can accept ethnicity preferences.

Grindr needs to do better

I would love to have a filter where you can choose which race or age can even view your profile. I get way too many dick-hungry whites guys looking for dick and I’m not even into white guys. Please add this!

Allow a mutual match feature. If I’m open to all races and the other party prefers my race, then we are match to browse each others profiles. Sick of wasting time with people who ghost as soon as they realize I’m Asian although I make that clear in my profile.

Y’all keep the height no judgement , weight no judgement but when someone wants to date within their ethnicity/culture ? It’s not racist , we have the right to do so & you’re making it harder for some of us to find a match. Bring it back in please I pay for the membership, and feel like if i won’t get ethnicity then I should delete the whole thing