[brucephillips]

I'm a bumble user. They sent this post as an email to their user base. I don't understand what they're trying to accomplish by airing their dirty laundry publicly. Users don't care if you're in an IP battle.

Also, I could have done without the sexist implication that bullying is a masculine characteristic.

[jamilbk]

I thought the same thing. Why bring gender into this? Bullying should be discouraged in all walks of life, whether the victims and perpetrators are male or female.

Interestingly, all of my female friends who use Bumble are actually annoyed that they must act first to open the dialog with their matches. They don't seem to notice or care that the feature is placed there to empower women, nor do they know or care about Bumble's feminist origins. They use it because it has more attractive males than Tinder.

[Kalium]

What's really funny to me is that I've had to explain to more than one female friend that there's a reason no guys start conversations with them on Bumble.

[BadassFractal]

100% consistent with my anecdata as well. My girl friends who use it are all annoyed they have to say something first and mostly default to "hi", which is essentially passing the ball to the guy, who's expected to get creative (assuming similar dating market values).

[brucephillips]

Interesting. I suppose that's not too surprising, though. As a man, my biggest gripe with tinder is how much work it is.

[rajacombinator]

A lot of their marketing decisions seem to be personal branding/vanity spending for the founders. (Paying money to be in music videos, sponsoring the Clippers ...) This statement probably falls into that category also, but maybe appeals to some of their users at the margin. Or they might be delusional enough to think these things matter, it’s easy to drink your own koolaid.

[dbg31415]

Spot on.