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.

Grindr I know you guys meant well but this was a very poor decision. It’s nothing wrong with a person preferring a certain ethnicity. Would you please but that filter back ?

This app is supposed to be finding people WE want to do stuff with(date, talk, hookup, etc.) but the ethnicity filter being gone hinders that. How are y’all helping spread equality or whatever if you’re blocking us from being able to choose our PERSONAL PREFERENCES. Also y’all blocking POC from finding each other easier!

Hope to increase race search

Since the omission of the ethnicity type option, I know only see very few of my preferred type which is black guys. Please bring this back

Everyone is tripping like just scroll if you want to find a particular race, or actually read their profile. My homepage has asian, black, white, romanian etc. all in the first 50 profiles. Im black myself and think not having this function is fine, cause at the end of the day I don't care who I meet, as long as they're attractive, fun, and not racist!

I don't like grinder no more now that they removed ethnicity filter thy need to bring it back I like jacked better than grinder jacked has ethnicity filter still I'm not going to be one of grinder paying customers no more if they don't bring back ethnicity filter I'm dune with grinder