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In my comment I said:
And the whole reason why I commented was because I'd misunderstood your comment. I'd thought it was separate from the post itself, since you hadn't made it clear that the purpose of your comment was to say something like: "So despite the consequences it might have to the men featured in the app, it should still exist due to the benefit that it would bring to women". Without that, to me, it really just looked like you'd read the stories from the men and thought "women have it worse".
Since I'm now inside the discussion, I'm gonna give you my two cents.
I think that most people here weren't really mad at the app due to its purpose. They were mad because it's far from a perfect solution. Regardless of how much protection the app has, at these issues will exist:
Not to mention that, in this case, the creator was a man and the information protection was laughably bad.
In the future, apps like this one might become a must for women's self-protection, but that doesn't mean that the app's issues will just cease existing. Pointing them out along with personal experiences to back them up, and then weighing in the pros and cons is always going to be very important.
Might've made myself a bit unclear, here's a tl;dr
I thought you'd meant
But what I've realized what you'd meant is
And to finish, sorry that that happened to you. I hope you and the people you talked about stay safe.
I see, thanks for elaborating. And yeah, I'm not talking about the app itself because it's a little iffy given how people are drawn to gossip and revenge, but about the people in the comments giving their personal stories that sound traumatic but, like, not "make an app to avoid your potential killer" levels of traumatic.
What I think really needs to happen is we take a Ryder truck full of ANFO to the idea that sex must come from abject strangers found on the internet.
Dating apps are very obviously a failed experiment. If you use one, you deserve everything you get.