“Bumble CEO, on Banning Gun Photos” (TIME):
We were founded with safety at the helm of everything we do…
this is a matter of safety
We want women … to feel safe and feel secure
I received personal emails from so many women just saying, “Thank you, I feel safer.”
This confused one of my gun nut friends: “Don’t the women want to see men with gun photos so they know who is scary and whom to avoid dating?” The CEO deals with this in the article, but doesn’t explain her logic:
But to be candid with you, we did have some women reach out and ask: “Well how do I know that someone is a gun owner now?” And once we walked them through our logic, they actually really understood and appreciated where we were coming from. Being able to ask what someone’s beliefs are is not as hard as the consequences of someone casually showing a gun, which might send the wrong message to someone who might go and misuse a gun.
Readers: What do you think? Will women actually be “safer” on Bumble if they never see pictures that include guns, but just find out about an arsenal when they’re on their date’s sofa, feel a lump between the cushions, and pull out a pistol? (This actually happened to me, though I wasn’t dating the gun enthusiastic!)
[Separately, in downtown Seattle the company put up a massive billboard reading “Be the CEO your parents always wanted you to marry. (then find someone you actually like)”
Assuming that the “someone you actually like” is lower income than the female CEO, this is questionable marital advice under Washington family law. The aging high-income female CEO is exposed to the full force of the gender-neutral alimony statute in the event that the husband that she actually liked decides that he would prefer to have sex with 25-year-olds. Her savings from the marriage and earnings going forward will fund his escapades with younger mates. (see Massachusetts Prenuptial Agreements for how one of these scenarios played out)]
> doesn’t explain her logic … will women actually be “safer”
Even a simple caveman knows that logic isn’t as important as feelings to women (or those who indentify as women?). Banning gun pictures won’t actually be safer for women, but some might feel safer.
According to Bumble women are the new children! keep them safe!
All of the single women here live in downtrodden neighborhoods that no sane person would enter without a gun. The price of sex was to fully expect your car to disappear. Most of the women in the bay area live in none other than Oakland. Would have felt safer if they did have an arsenal.
“At the time, my main objection to the women’s movement was what seems to be an overall rejection of ALL our traditions and values, but since then I’ve seen first hand how women’s equality has been beneficial to both women AND men.”
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Peter Bagge is one cartoonist who writes about the mess of modern relationships with painful candour to hilarious effect. The Bradleys captured the dysfunctional American family of the 1980’s in all its grotesque confused glory.
Phil: Was the gun loaded?
Rick: Loaded? I don’t know. I’m not a schoolteacher so there was no test-firing! (The same friend now has three kids so all (well, at least most) of the guns are in a Hollywood-style dungeon room.)
Does this apply only to people who identify as women in America? What about people who identify as women in Israel? Or South Africa?