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

@MOMO, not true at all. Some only want Latin dick. No black dick, no white dick, no Asian dick. Your dick preference is not racist. Y'all need to quit this everything offensive is racist bs. Y'all changing ppls minds. Let people like and choose what they want. Have a nice day..

Butt Pics no gaping holes, nice tasteful pic

Whoever wrote this needs to stop lying...🙄
Most PEOPLE especially gays purposefully date outside their race. If all you want is sex it REALLY should not matter what color your “mate” is.
Miss me with that bs...🙄

Miss that option

I think they should go even further.... grindr is way too heterophobic. They should give everyone a home here.

Its not racist to want to search by ethnicity. Its pathetic that you removed that option

Can’t cancel membership

Some of us prefer ethnicitys different than ourselves. Although white, I prefer black men to date. That's who I am attracted to.

Saying I’m racist for not being attracted or wanting to have sex with someone outside of my own race is like saying I’m racist for not being attracted to someone shorter or taller than me. Race is something nobody can change. Physical attributes outside of weight is also something nobody can change. It doesn’t make it racist. It makes Grindr uneducated and ignorant, though.

Yes I am strongly believe you should put the filter back remember what they say you can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time also the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many

As someone who is black, I disagree.

By stating that you wouldn’t date a certain group, you are essentially claiming that their superficial qualities would make it impossible for you to form an emotional connection – which is, in fact, prejudice.

Not dating someone on the basis of hair color sounds silly..yet time and time again, racial preferences are shrugged off as a legitimate and immutable aspect of sexual individuality, to the point where questioning them is demonized as threatening someone’s personal expression with uptight, irrational political correctness.

To clarify, inclusionary racial preferences can be racist as well. Saying that you only want to date a specific race is equally problematic because it defines someone by their ethnicity.

Assuming that someone’s racial background gives them more desirable qualities reflects harmful histories of colonialism and the exotification and fetishization that went along with it.

Basically, if someone’s skin color alone is enough to make you attracted or not attracted to them, take a step back and think about your life choices. Racial preferences aren’t a celebratory, untouchable birthright transmitted to you in the womb.

They aren’t a demarcation of any kind of fundamental individuality or any of the things that make you you.

It’s learned cultural bias, plain and simple.

You can’t possibly claim that you know for a fact that every single person of a given race or ethnicity has no chance of falling in love with you based entirely on physical appearance.

Many people will use the “exposure” excuse as a justification for their preferences, asserting that they have very little experience interacting with a certain group.

If anything, that makes your argument even more misguided because you are basically admitting that you’ve never been given the opportunity to try and form relationships with anyone from that community, so how do you even have enough information to “know” that you won’t be attracted to people that you’ve never met?

Implied universalism is not only biased, but dangerous in the ways that it allows racial and cultural hierarchies to persist while enabling the individual to avoid any self-introspection of the factors that led to the formation of this perspective.

The idea of “cherry picking” races to somehow magically have an ideal partner or relationship due to the racial dynamic alone needs to stop. Not only is it unreliable and illogical, but it propagates and validates oppression.

TL;DR:

Racial preferences reduce people to their ethnicity and reinforce racial hierarchies by insinuating that race alone is a powerful enough factor to negate everything else that someone has to offer.

Claiming that someone is unworthy of associating with you because of race and hiding behind the flimsy excuse of sexual tastes or lack of hypothetical romantic chemistry is racist.

It’s true that anyone can have undesirable traits and you shouldn’t feel obligated to be with a person solely for inclusivity’s sake, but that doesn’t mean that those traits are ethnically specific.

You can’t know whether or not you have chemistry with someone unless you get to know them.