I personally do not feel that removing this feature was beneficial in any meaningful way except to make users of this app frustrated.
There are various studies that have been conducted regarding race and sexual preferences. The Wikipedia article "Race and sexuality" has a lot of good information, but there are various other resources I would encourage people to read.
The following is quoted from the wikipedia article:
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Just because someone isn't sexually attracted to someone of Asian origin does not mean they wouldn't want to work, live next to, or socialize with him or her, or that they believe they are somehow naturally superior to them.
This suggests that people find it possible to view larger systemic racial preference as problematic, while viewing racial preferences in romantic or sexual personal relationships as not problematic. Researchers noted that racial preferences in one's own dating life were generally tolerated and that calling them "racist" is not a commonly accepted view.
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I would encourage Grindr to seriously look into this further, as it seems this was initially done as a publicity stunt as opposed to actually combating racism.
Anonymous
I personally do not feel that removing this feature was beneficial in any meaningful way except to make users of this app frustrated.
There are various studies that have been conducted regarding race and sexual preferences. The Wikipedia article "Race and sexuality" has a lot of good information, but there are various other resources I would encourage people to read.
The following is quoted from the wikipedia article:
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Just because someone isn't sexually attracted to someone of Asian origin does not mean they wouldn't want to work, live next to, or socialize with him or her, or that they believe they are somehow naturally superior to them.
This suggests that people find it possible to view larger systemic racial preference as problematic, while viewing racial preferences in romantic or sexual personal relationships as not problematic. Researchers noted that racial preferences in one's own dating life were generally tolerated and that calling them "racist" is not a commonly accepted view.
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I would encourage Grindr to seriously look into this further, as it seems this was initially done as a publicity stunt as opposed to actually combating racism.