'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps

Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by kukkeliskuu on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:57AM (#38065847)

I am not talking about self-reported preferences but the statistical analysis of the experiences men and women have on dating apps. I find the former to not be consistent with the latter.

I have learned a lot about this in the zoo with my daughter. Adults become extremely uncomfortable and want to go away when the children find the human-like behavior of apes funny. To me it seems that our animal nature is too much for most people to psychologically accept.

That is why I completely avoid that discussion in general and here in particular.

Dating app popularity can be easily observed and we don't need to go into that discussion at all.

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Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by jollyllama on Monday October 30, 2023 @10:26AM (#38069847)

>I have learned a lot about this in the zoo with my daughter. Adults become extremely uncomfortable when the children find the human-like behavior of apes funny. Adults just want to go away.

Can you provide an example? I don't disagree, I just don't know if you're talking about bullying or what.

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Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by kukkeliskuu on Monday October 30, 2023 @11:23AM (#38070606)

I meant less about what they do, and more about how they do it. Dogs for example may bully, but it does not seem eerily human-like.

If you spend some time watching our closest ancestors, you start to see that they have lot of common gestures with humans. It is difficult to thoroughly explain this using just words.

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