Study suggests Dating Apps can stop "Sexual Racism" because people shouldn't be allowed to date who they like?

[Mihle]

Lots of what further right wingers say about people from other parts of the world and say it's because of their "race" is in fact not.

 

Is it because of the place they grew up, their parents, the media, the society around where they lived most of their life? Yes. Is it because their "race"? Hell no.

[mynameisjuan]

33 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

What these platforms are saying is, “hey, there are other people out there. Maybe some of them are hot too!”

This is what almost every dating app does. When you sign up you pick you sex and pick which sex you prefer and it just throws you in. 

 

See now in my area I see mostly white people in tinder, but its not because its racist or forcing same race down my throat. The population in my town is literally like 93% Caucasian. But then I go back to where I used to live and its like 50/50 on tinder. 

 

Again these are fake problems just to cause drama and introduce more racist views. 

[Syntaxvgm]

57 minutes ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

Sure you can. Just because you don't find the physical attributes of a race attractive doesn't mean you hate them. If you don't prefer people of a certain race your probably not going to find any of them attractive.

Not what I'm saying. In polite conversation, sure. But if some girl hits on you and your response is I DONT LIKE BLACK WOMEN miiight be a little shitty. I usually don't ever tell people my preferences publicly. Black women- mostly no but I have before, and some are attractive to me. No blondes mostly. Black men make me wish I was gay. 
In a case that I turned down any of the three only the last case would I let my sexual preference be known. 

[Syntaxvgm]

1 hour ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

This isn't actually true though. People lie like crazy about their sexual habits. So what peoples sexual preferences actually are... yes are what they are. But that's not what we see every day or in dating sites. We see what they are willing to put forth which is very disproportionately reflective of what they believe society accepts instead of what they themselves accept.

 

Example. Studies of porn sites data indicates about 5% of men in the US (invariant of state) watch a significant about of gay porn, even as each state population's 'gay male rate' correlates very strongly with how open and accepting they are.

 

Another one is that a rather decent proportion of healthy/fit men find 'overweight' women attractive based on their porn preferences.

 

A more potentially controversial one is that women world wide (at a rate invariant by country) search for violent porn at a rate numerous times higher than men. And as this rate doesnt seem to vary with the levels of violence towards women country by country... well biology is a bitch.

 

 

Anyways... all this is just saying that if you took a system and encoded it to make a feedback loop based on the shallow feedback that humans often pretend to believe, the computer algorithms quickly learn human biases and a significant proportion of the matching pool would be excluded regardless of actual compatibility.

 

This document isnt saying, if you are white, exclude white etc. Its saying that a set minimum level of forced diversity in options is (could be) good for people to actually find what they like rather than just what they say they like.

 

 

Oh and by including more of those people you might not like, human psychology causes you to view people on the edge of acceptability more favorably, so it helps dating sites in finding more matches overall.

 

 

 

TL:DR Regardless of the framing in this article, for dating sites it isnt an SJW issue. It is a "computer deep learning is incredibly good at becoming exceptionally bigoted/racist" issue.

well I said later I'm ok with the idea of people being shown someone they wouldn't search for, and they may or may not find them attractive. Im not ok with someone being judged for the sexual preferences as long as they're not out and in your face on about "I DON'T LIKE BLACK WOMEN!!!". People will silently pick. 

[Ashleyyyy]

1 hour ago, cj09beira said:

btw that's already a thing 

it is? 

[cj09beira]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

it is? 

ya, a tranny made a video about that some time ago

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Sexual Racism what? that's just thier sexual preference, i remember a porn actress was bullied into suicide because she was asked to perform with a gay person and she refused and the entire twitter was triggered and caller her sexist.

[suicidalfranco]

1 hour ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

Sjw only care about diversity is skin not diversity if thought and that's why we'll have our God emperor Trump in 2020.

 

I kneel every morning to His supreme holyness, and pray that He may give us a thousand years of Trump Administration.

(please lord Trump pick me to become your loyal Space Marine)

[Monkey Dust]

It just doesn't sound like something that would work. And coupling up people where one, or both, have prejudices against the other partner doesn't sound like a recipe for a healthy relationship. 

 

Reluctance is possibly driven by interracial couples being depicted rarely in entertainment, outside of the nerdy white guy Asian woman trope. As well as stereotyped depictions of certain gender/race combos, people imagine there is far more difference between ethnicities than there actually is.

[matrix07012]

Biased SJW "study" number 653295. Nothing new

Also I believe this topic doesn't belong on a tech forum.

[Curufinwe_wins]

39 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

well I said later I'm ok with the idea of people being shown someone they wouldn't search for, and they may or may not find them attractive. Im not ok with someone being judged for the sexual preferences as long as they're not out and in your face on about "I DON'T LIKE BLACK WOMEN!!!". People will silently pick. 

Oh yeah. Totally agree there.

[bitsandpieces]

[Brooksie359]

3 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

Basically, the study suggests that Dating Apps should match people of different races and not allow users to be able to set filters. So in effect, the proposed changes would cause users to be matched with who the dating app thinks you should be matched with and not the people who you might be attracted to.

Yeah I assume that if an app started pairing a straight guy with other dudes they are going to be mad. Honestly this isn't all that diffrent. If someone isn't interested in dating certain people then don't try and force them.

[Brooksie359]

3 hours ago, WereCatf said:

Absolutely, but the argument in this "study" -- read "quackery" -- is that being attracted to only certain skin-colours is racism, which....is stupid as well. Not being attracted to everyone isn't racism, so this whole argument isn't really about racism, it's just about someone spouting bullshit and seeking attention.

If being attracted to only certain races is racist I guess you can call me sexist

[mynameisjuan]

7 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

If being attracted to only certain races is racist I guess you can call me sexist

You racist, sexist, gender assuming bastard! You make me sick. 

 

Good day sir...

[AlTech]

1 hour ago, mynameisjuan said:

This is what almost every dating app does. When you sign up you pick you sex and pick which sex you prefer and it just throws you in. 

That is a major oversimplification but essentially yes.

 

People choose what filters they want after the first 2 steps and then it'll try to match them.

[dtaflorida]

Ever see a really attractive person of a race you wouldn't normally consider and think you'd make an exception for that person? How about increasing the race filter granularity. 

 

Interested in [x race] if

1. level of physical attractiveness >= 1-10
2. level of intelligence >=1-10
3. level of wealth >=1-10
4. level of interests match >=1-10
5. etc

 

[mr moose]

The data is good, and should provide some reasonable insights into culture and place.  Too bad the writers have no fucking idea how to qualify and interpret that data.

 

 

 

 

[Taja]

This is ridiculous, BUT that being said, it is very true that people use the "its my preference" argument to mask their prejudices. Por example, I usually prefer brunettes and I dont like woman that are too strong, but that does not mean I would exclude every strong blonde. People are people, and most often than not you find yourself seeing the beauty on someone you would never imagine feeling attracted to.

 

This is personal however, and nobody can tell you how to live your life, but if you are a "nice guy" who only likes tall redheads, be aware that this is not as simple as personal preference, so dont act like it. On the other hand, NEVER feel like you "have" to be attracted to someone or if you arent that means you are racist - this is just insane and very dangerous.

[MadyTehWolfie]

3 hours ago, Deus Voltage said:

First of all, the claim that I just underlined is obviously silly (and I haven't seen others making it on the left). 

 

As to the last phrase, I'm guessing it's sarcasm (I hope), but I might be getting old.

You may want to get glasses friend your vision isn't that sharp then. Either that or you have no been to college yet.

[MoonSpot]

Ah, social engineering.  People love being manipulated into being someone else's type of right person.

Just waiting for the day the reavers emerge post 'Big brother' & 'The Man' mind frackery.  Got my Zoey, Malcolm Reynolds and Jane action figures ready if shit goes sideways.

[Mr.Dingle]

Going outside is hard , let me download this app so i can get offended by unknown figures easier ...

 

 

[Nowak]

6 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

sexual preferences are something that just are what they are and you can't help that. 

Isn't this what the gay movement had to help people understand? 

Yup. I can't help that I'm only attracted to other men.

[yian88]

Get lost SJW article and fascist ideology, there is no sexual racism. SJW race baiting everywhere nowadays.

SJW be like "Oh you are using your right hand predominantly ? thats discrimination against people that only have one left arm." 

And drawing people into really stupid conversations of ghost chasing throwing people into extremes because of the stupidity of the topic.

Thats exactly what these sort of articles are doing, assuming there is sexual racism to begin with is idiotic.

Lets talk about discrimination against men, no women ever liked me on dating apps hence thats discriminatory/racist let me write a victim article and make some fake studies, maybe we should force women to date men even if they dont like em, how about that stupid narrative?

 

Is it also racist to choose a hair color on these apps? i only like dark hair so everyone else is discriminated against right? whats next? no age filter? i dont want to date your grandma, im such a racist,bigot...bla bla bla.

 

I hope this thread gets locked i doubt anything usefull comes out of it other than flaming...

[LAwLz]

3 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

 It’s not what’s happening in this case at all. The framing of the article is that people tend to stay in their bubble. Creating a platform that encourages exploration and experimentation is not “forcing diversity.” “Forcing diversity” would be only matching people from one race to people of another race. 

 

What these platforms are saying is, “hey, there are other people out there. Maybe some of them are hot too!”

 

And who is saying that? It looks like only you tbh. Trying to encourage people to expand their horizons is not the same as telling them who and who they cannot be with.  

 

The framing of your position is in poor taste imo. 

Trying to "make people broaden their horizons" in terms of what they find sexually attractive is a very, very touchy subject though.

Would you tell a homosexual man to try and date women? Or a lesbian woman to try and date men? If no, why not? Why is it less acceptable to try and "judge" a homosexual into being straight, than trying to nudge a person who prefers white people to picking a black person (or vice versa)?

 

At the end of the day, people should have complete freedom over who they want to date, and I don't think companies should try and intervene with that.

 

Labeling it as racism is just silly too. It's essentially like saying not having sex with an overweight and old white guy is body- and age shaming and you should feel bad for not sucking his dick.