Bumble Banned Sexist Finance Bro After He Sent Abusive Messages

Bumble is holding men accountable!


Another day, another man goes on a sexist rampage on a dating app, another woman blogs about it. 

Bumble user Ashley was chatting with finance bro Connor, who threw a temper tantrum after Ashley asked him what he did for a living. You know, a totally standard question to ask someone on a dating app. (I suppose that can be a touchy issue! Holding irrational sexist beliefs makes you sensitive and volatile!)




Except this time, where so many apps have failed, Bumble actually took a stand. In the great tradition of writing open letters on the internet, Bumble wrote to Connor on their blog, explaining exactly why his outburst was unwarranted and misogynistic. They told him,

We ... gather that [Ashley] wasn't hoping to figure out if your wallet was sizeable enough for her to move into your house and start cooking dinner for you after vacuuming your living room while you clock in a 9 to 5 work day. Instead, Ashley was (wait for it, Connor, because this is where things really get interesting), viewing herself as an equal ... While you may view this as "neo-liberal, Beyonce, feminist-cancer," and rant about the personal wounds you are trying to heal from classic "entitled gold digging whores," we are going to keep working. We are going to expand our reach and make sure that women everywhere receive the message that they are just as empowered in their personal lives as they are in the workplace. We are going to continue to build a world that makes small-minded, misogynist boys like you feel outdated ... Connor, consider yourself blocked from Bumble.

It's worth noting that Connor's hissy fit does violate Bumble's terms of service, which prohibit "language which could be deemed offensive or is likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person."

The moral of the story? Men are extremely oversensitive. They really need to calm down.

And for real, it's not offensive for a woman to ask you about your job on a dating app because women are not on said apps to meet rich men with whom they get dig the gold right out of. Chances are, when a woman asks you about your job on a dating app, she's doing this crazy thing called Getting To Know You.

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