I recently returned to Hinge (a dating app). Firstly, my life has finally begun to feel like it’s rolling in the right direction and so the moral danger (for them and not me) of meeting and attracting new people is diminished. People tell me that I’m an interesting first date companion. Secondly, I want to watch Oppenheimer and some other theatre films and I don’t want to go alone.

This is the review I left for the app:

Hinge promotes narcissism and psychopathology and leverages insecurities and decision paralyses to keep people in a pattern of compulsive use. The rapacious and dishonest men treat shallow women badly (and they attract more women than the average, especially young women). Those wounded women then treat decent men badly (as a defense mechanism and a means of displaced vengeance) and those decent men treat deep and interesting women badly (for the same reason)… and around and around we go. An anonymous buffet of options with no consequences for bad behavior is a terrible social model.

The app is full of these kinds of declarations… which are probably meant sincerely. I’ve never met a person who is amenable to being called on their bullshit though and almost no one wants to be called out in this way by a stranger on a dating app.