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For every swipe right, men lose points for being less selective—encouraging them to narrow their criteria from "any female with a pulse" to "women I'm really interested in."Eve cofounder Hank Dumanian is well aware that guys may bristle at the idea of being scored by an algorithm (and indeed, all the men I spoke with felt at least a little uncomfortable with the double standard). The problem with dating apps, as he sees it, is that they "treat male and female users as functional equivalents." The reality is that men not only far outnumber women (some apps have a male-female ratio as high as 70 to 30) but also behave entirely differently.
The average man will swipe right on nearly half the women he sees.
One article blamed Tinder for the "dating apocalypse," prompting an infamous Twitter tantrum from the brand.
Books like Aziz Ansari's wrestled with our hookup-happy culture's "paradox of choice." Stock prices wavered. According to the doomsayers, men are swiping right with abandon, "ghosting," and dodging commitment. "Men have been taught to peacock and get our attention, especially in online communities that create this sense of urgency and aggression," says a representative from Bumble, a spin-off from one of Tinder's cofounders that nixes creepy pickup lines by letting women make the first move.