It's a useful app, as it helps men avoid the type of women who'd use such an app.
So much for the "anonymous" app.
This is the scary reality of an app like this, especially if it continued to go more mainstream.
However there is something to be said about the crowd you find yourself with. If you assume this app to be necessary, I would assume your social standards are not high enough.
What's the bar they cannot clear?
And you perhaps watch too much Netflix. Most friend groups do not include a psychopath. And if you date solely based on the recommendations of those friend groups, you can avoid 99% of bad things.
Doubtful, I'm not big on such things.
I have, however, scoured decades of court documents and police records (the joys of freelance IT work) and stand by the observation that the absolute worst people can be found everywhere .. including unseen within the most milquetoast seeming circles until that day when acquaintances voxpop "they seemed like such a nice person" statements.
That's drawn from real life, not Netflix.
Sex pests can easily be professors, judges, police, priests, child physiologists, good Christians, devout Muslims, upstanding Jews, you name it.
If you don't see how this is distorting your view on reality worse than consuming lots of murder porn documentaries on Netflix, then I don't know what to tell you.
> "they seemed like such a nice person" statements.
You're misusing that phrase. It's typically uttered by neighbors or coworkers that didn't actually know somebody. Hence the "seemed like".
If you're actually close friends with somebody, there is very little chance to hide something like psychopathy.
Just as Parieto indicates that the bulk of male sexual assaults are done by a few, also indicates that the bulk of female assaults and claims of sexual assault are also done by a few.
Apps like Tea only paint all men as abusive thugs. If this were done, say to black people, this app would have been shut down and a lawsuit in federal court filed. But men are OK to harass, libel, and demean.
Good on anonymous for exposing this obvious double standard. And I hope they get sued by everyone.