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How I Built This with Guy Raz

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Dating Aps - Are They Built for Women?

Men are raised from very early age to be the gogetter in a heterosexual relationship. Women, on the flip side, are trained to play hard to get. Here you're telling men o be overtly aggressive, and here you're telling women to be the inverse of that. And so what you do when you do that is set both up for failure. You set the men up to be constantly rejected, and you set the women up to be at risk of of aggression and abuse. Now add another element, which is a profile riht, a digital a shield where you can hide behind a user name or profile photo, and you don't have to be accountable. Soa.

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