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I see what you are trying to say. But surely this is sexist in the same way as only looking for girls at a bar is sexist. I.E. Not sexist at all. Especially considering the app has a male search setting, but is off by default.

I agree that this app is horrifying, and creepy as all hell. But I would love to be enlightened as to its sexist nature.

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I was mostly commenting on the old adage that in business you want to offend the least amount of customers to increase your market share e.g. the reason why mainstream news is so bland is that it helps to sell advertisements.

I was leaning towards calling it sexist because it by default chooses one gender over the other and has in its name a specific judgement on gender. "Girls around me" It could have been like Sonar and chosen the "networking" approach and named itself "People around me" and by default shown both men and women.

Perhaps they are like the Fox News of apps and are trying to target a very specific segment of the market i.e. creeps?

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