Culture Bumble will ban users for being ‘fat-phobic’ or ‘transphobic’

Bumble will ban users for being ‘fat-phobic’ or ‘transphobic’​

By Hannah Sparks
January 28, 2021 | 5:57pm

Dating app Bumble is putting the kibosh on body shaming.

The company announced Wednesday that the app would begin throwing out members caught using “language that can be deemed fat-phobic, ableist, racist, colorist, homophobic or transphobic.”

The new restrictions will apply to users’ direct messages as well as those with profiles that openly discriminate against different body types.

“Body shaming is not acceptable on or off of the Bumble app,” a statement from Bumble reads. “For those who may not know, body shaming means forcing your opinion of a ‘good body’ onto others.”

An algorithm has been set up to flag words and phrases associated with “body shaming,” then assessed by a live moderator, according to the Guardian. Warnings will then be sent to users at their first offense — along with sensitivity-training materials — before being banned entirely.

The Austin, Texas-based company wants to foster “a kinder, more respectful and more equal space on the internet,” said Naomi Walkland, who runs Bumble’s overseas marketing division. “Key to this has always been our zero-tolerance policy for racist and hate-driven speech, abusive behavior and harassment.”

A 2016 survey by WooPlus, a dating app for plus-size women, found that 71% of 1,000 users who called themselves “curvy” had also been fat-shamed by men on other dating apps. More broadly, a 2020 Pew study found that 33% of women on dating apps had been called an offensive name by another user.

Fans of women-centered app Bumble — which urges lady users to “make the first move” — say the move is another reason why they love the company.

“I’m very interested in seeing how this works, and also EXTREMELY happy to see it launch,” tweeted music journalist Courtney E. Smith.

Some are calling for other dating apps to take note.

“Maybe @Grindr could follow suit. That app is a cesspit of toxicity around the body and race,” said one fan of the change.


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[RadicalCentrist]

Surely this will lead all the hamplanets on Bumble getting laid, right?

“I’m very interested in seeing how this works, and also EXTREMELY happy to see it launch,” tweeted music journalist Courtney E. Smith.

Fat

 

[Dissapointed Grandma]

Can't wait to get banned after not replying to two deathfats. Perhaps for the best

 

[Governor Jeb Bush]

Are you dating the person

or the app?

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

this brave new world where you kill your app for the virtue signal

 

[theshep]

Same shit which happened with lesbian dating apps. 'Lesbians, you will sleep with the tranny girldick'. Or else!

Don't these fools realise that you can't woke people into being sexually attracted to you? You're fat, ugly and your genitals are unappealing and we will not have sex with you.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Bumble should stop this discrimination. All of my friends have gotten banned.

Larry the fatcamp organiser. Terry the liposuctionist. Bob the whale hunter.

 

[The Lizard Queen]

"For those who may not know, body shaming means forcing your opinion of a ‘good body’ onto others.”

So for most people, the idea of a "good body" is a healthy body, with a frame slim enough to fit through tight spaces, and strong enough to do basic tasks, like climbing up ladders and walking for miles. If you can't do these things, you're not healthy and there's a problem that needs to be addressed. At the very least you both need a body fit enough to not die from a heart attack because you exerted yourselves in the bedroom.
That seems like a good bare minimum standard for fitness in a relationship. After all, what's the point if one or both of you are so unfit that you barely leave the house and are unable to do any of the physical tasks required to maintain a relationship?

But now if you don't lust after people who are so out of shape that they get physically winded just by watching other people exercise on TV, then you're a Nazi bigot who needs to go to a re-education camp.

 

[Positron]

“For those who may not know, body shaming means forcing your opinion of a ‘good body’ onto others.”

And the problem is?

 

[Fat Bastard]

Why go through all this effort when it won't make a difference? Implementing these new rules isn't going to make every guy suddenly think 'hmmm, maybe I should swipe right on this disgusting man in a wig's profile, also this 400lbs blob who can't wash her own cunt or ass seems just like the woman for me'.

 

[Lone MacReady]

Attention new age faggot websites looking to gain an audience with a perceived ""progressive"" (regressive) narrative - A phobia means fear - what retard on the planet is "Fearful" of fatasses? Same with ""Islamophobia"" and other newspeak words used to enabled the decline of the west - Islam is Hated by those who do not want acid in their faces, not because they fear a pedophile worship cult. Same principle for the obese, one is not scared of fatties, one makes fun of fatties poor eating habits. Get it right marxist rags.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Attention new age faggot websites looking to gain an audience with a perceived ""progressive"" (regressive) narrative - A phobia means fear - what retard on the planet is "Fearful" of fatasses? Same with ""Islamophobia"" and other newspeak words used to enabled the decline of the west - Islam is Hated by those who do not want acid in their faces, not because they fear a pedophile worship cult. Same principle for the obese, one is not scared of fatties, one makes fun of fatties poor eating habits. Get it right marxist rags.

Uh-oh, looks like someone is suffering from marxistphobia.

 

[Snekposter]

Keep in mind a phobia is an irrational fear, too. There's nothing irrational about being wary of Islam given its behavior when it gets power. There's also nothing the least bit scary about fat people, not unless we're talking about being crushed under them after they trip over their own cankles. But that's not exactly irrational either given the risk of injury.

 

[Product Placement]

I feel like the true issue here is hamplanets misusing the word curvy

 

[augment]

I have lipophobia and I find this highly problematic.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

The company announced Wednesday that the app would begin throwing out members caught using “language that can be deemed fat-phobic, ableist, racist, colorist, homophobic or transphobic.”

Can't wait to see how many black people get banned for complaining about people being too light/too dark.

Keep in mind a phobia is an irrational fear, too. There's nothing irrational about being wary of Islam given its behavior when it gets power. There's also nothing the least bit scary about fat people, not unless we're talking about being crushed under them after they trip over their own cankles. But that's not exactly irrational either given the risk of injury.

Fat people will drain your bank account because they'll make you pay extra for all the food they eat, sounds like there's plenty to be afraid of.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

So Bumble has the women "make the first move"? I have a feeling that the abuse cows got for starting with guys is nothing compared to the abuse women give to men who try to pick up on them.

 

[Standardized Profile]

I feel like the true issue here is hamplanets misusing the word curvy

They mean they curve spacetime.

 

[Snekposter]

Well, when you're that big, the only lens you can use to describe yourself for intersectionalism purposes is a gravitational one.

 

[Sped Xing]

Bumble is an app where women are supposed to pursue men.

This is, of course, against the grain of inherent human behavior as well as against any culture arising from inherent human behavior (i.e., all of them.)

Therefore it selects for damaged people of both sexes-- Borderline or Histrionic personality disorder women (lolcows) and Supreme Gentleman incel males (lolcows.)

It is, therefore, a lolcow breeding program. Watching it commit suicide is concerning; must we not protect our corn harvest?