![]() I wasn’t flooded with “Hey baby girl” and “You up?” nearly as much as other sites. ![]() Most of the men with whom I had a conversation, I ended up going out with. ![]() I selectively messaged a handful of men after I connected with them, a few of which I didn’t hear from, but the vast majority giving a response. I connected with a little over half of the men on whom I swiped right. Bumble was Pro-Women! Bumble was the future! I signed up, chose three pictures my friends insisted were flattering, and prepared my trusty thumb for swiping.įor the next three months, I swiped right if I was attracted to a guy’s pictures, profile, or both. At least on this site, no longer would society be stuck behind the “man has to make the first move” ideology, because it would be impossible. Bumble essentially changed the online dating game. To say I was pleased to hear this female-empowering innovative site would be an available dating tool would be an understatement. If both she and he managed to do that, and start talking within 48 hours, the connection was magically permanently “unlocked,” and the couple was free to message each other into eternity, ‘til death do you part, amen! If the woman chose to send him a message, only then could the man respond, having 24 hours in which to do so. For a heterosexual relationship, once you connected, the woman was the only one who had 24 hours to reach out with a message to the man. Boom! Now, here came the part where the app differed from others. If you both happily swiped right, the “I’m into you” way, you connected. You swiped right or left depending on whether you were interested in the person plastered on the screen in front of you. At first glance, the app seemed like many other dating apps readily available. Intrigued, I researched this Bumble of which she spoke. My ears and demeanor perked up immediately at the mention of the words “power” and “women” in the same sentence it was like I was hearing a language I’d never heard before, a language for which I longed, and it was beautiful. “It gives the power back to the women,” she told me, eyes gleaming. I heard from my friend, who was way cooler than me, that there was this online dating site called Bumble that I simply had to try. Obama was President, and I was single for the first time in a long time.
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