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Prof slams OkCupid for privileging ‘white, heterosexual’ men
Campus Reform ^ | October 1, 2017 | Toni Airaksinen

Posted on 12/02/2017 7:48:55 AM PST by C19fan

A Trinity College professor recently criticized the popular dating site OKCupid for marginalizing LBGTQ people, a claim that company officials vehemently dispute. In an article for the Journal of Feminist Geography, professor Jen Jack Gieseking—who “identifies as a woman” but uses “he/him/his pronouns”—bemoans the difficulty that gay and transgender people encounter when trying to find other LGBTQ people on the site.

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To: Leaning Right
And here it is: If you don’t like that site, go to some other site.

And if there isn't one....but together a business plan and pitch it to investors. Trust me, if it's a profitable venture, somebody will invest in it. That's the beauty of Capitalism.

21 posted on 12/02/2017 8:18:18 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: blam
bear spray should work
22 posted on 12/02/2017 8:22:16 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

Jen Jack is a biological male, who “identifies” as a woman, who wants OKCupid to allow him to approach straight men (or maybe women) on the site for date requests.


23 posted on 12/02/2017 8:30:37 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: C19fan

There need to be venues that are only for straight men and straight women whose identification is in accordance with their genetics.


24 posted on 12/02/2017 8:37:02 AM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: C19fan

I have a terrible time deciding whether somebody, in an article or a posting, who is “trans” and calls themselves he or she..... whether they are male or female. If you were a dating woman and responded to a he and discovered that he is a she, you’d be justifiable upset. The same is true for a dating man.

The issue is this. A trans person is looking for another trans person, but they want that other person to be heterosexual and to accept them as...well, the “correct” sex. That is not going to happen. Period. Ever. Heterosexual people are, by definition, looking for other heterosexual people. Why would they accept something that may look like the real thing, even be “modified” but is not the real thing? Heterosexuals are likely looking for a mate they can have children with. Not something that more-or-less looks like the real thing.


25 posted on 12/02/2017 8:38:11 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: C19fan
In an article for the Journal of Feminist Geography, professor Jen Jack Gieseking—who “identifies as a woman” but uses “he/him/his pronouns”—bemoans the difficulty that gay and transgender people encounter when trying to find other LGBTQ people on the site [OKCupid.com].

An entire internet full of multiple sites for everything including dating, but the world has to stop because one particular site, OkCupid, does not work the way a gay person insists it should. Is there some rule of being gay that you are limited to one establishment per item and cannot go elsewhere whether it's buying a cake or looking for a date? They may use the rainbow as their symbol to denote all things, but when it comes to obtaining something from a provider, the rainbow is monochrome and parks over a single spot.

26 posted on 12/02/2017 8:40:59 AM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: Eddie01

Urban culture is based on the glorification of degeneracy, and it has actively poisoned European American culture, as evidenced by European American performers making urban culture the core of what they produce.


27 posted on 12/02/2017 8:42:11 AM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: Eddie01

Post Malone - Rockstar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UceaB4D0jpo


28 posted on 12/02/2017 8:42:16 AM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Gen.Blather

If it’s ok for people to only be attracted to their own gender, then it’s ok for people to only be atttracted to “born opposite” genders. They can’t have it both ways. They’ve screamed how it’s perfectly fine to love whom you want, and if that’s a real man with an actual penis (or vice verse) then how can you fault someone?


29 posted on 12/02/2017 8:47:43 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: C19fan

These professors are insane.


30 posted on 12/02/2017 8:57:38 AM PST by Crucial
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To: C19fan

A guy claiming to be a gay woman..God must be shaking his head..


31 posted on 12/02/2017 9:09:05 AM PST by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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To: Eddie01

This guy actually started out playing metal. But that didn’t work out too well, so he decided to take the easy, “No talent necessary” route to fame: hip hop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Malone


32 posted on 12/02/2017 9:18:38 AM PST by hout8475
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To: C19fan

Go to hell fascist b!tch. I will use the following pronouns when speaking ABOUT you: idiot, fool, jerk, stupid, bananas, nuts, insane. And you don’t get to tell a business what to do.


33 posted on 12/02/2017 9:19:50 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: C19fan

Don’t like the website?

Go to somewhere else that caters to your perversions. There’s plenty of them out there.

This SHIT is really getting old.

If these homosexuals keep pushing their luck, it will run out.

But people who can’t maintain their self control, like homosexuals, just can’t grasp the fact that they have pushed things too far.


34 posted on 12/02/2017 9:26:46 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: hout8475

Tattoo of JFK . . . ROFLOL

This no talent was born in 1995!!

Just another braindead skull full of mush that was taught standard NY liberal values


35 posted on 12/02/2017 9:27:30 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Gen.Blather
"I have a terrible time deciding whether somebody, in an article or a posting, who is “trans” and calls themselves he or she..... whether they are male or female."

Easy fix. Whenever you see the term "trans" or "transsexual", replace it with the word "fake". Thus, a transsexual female is a "fake" female...which makes them a male.

36 posted on 12/02/2017 9:27:40 AM PST by 10mm
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To: C19fan

Oh for the pen and prose of Johnathan Swift, to properly illustrate the foibles of THIS DAY! To make a ‘modest proposal’ on the treatment of such Academics as this AND their ‘journals’!


37 posted on 12/02/2017 9:28:17 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: C19fan

Go to Hillsdale!


38 posted on 12/02/2017 9:33:06 AM PST by onedoug
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To: SauronOfMordor

O.K.Cupid did it all right by me. I found a number of really wonderful men who were not “right” for me primarily because they were not “right” enough. It is hard being a social and economic conservative and a Buddhist. It is not inconsistent, however. I found a wonderful man. He may have found me. While not a match made in heaven, certainly I had other choices on OKCupid had I decided to do so.


39 posted on 12/02/2017 9:42:15 AM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: Architect of Avalon

The idea of the author is that no such sites should exist. Heteronormative and exclusionary, if i have the lingo right.


40 posted on 12/02/2017 9:51:04 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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