Height Shaming or Fraud Protection?
So the other day I’m scrolling on Tinder and one of the various ads that pop up saying Tinder might enact some height verification if men (and let’s keep it real it’s just men) keep lying about how tall they are. The ad then leads to a passive aggressive article warning short men if they keep lying about being at least 6 feet tall the Tinder Team will expose them by releasing this “scary” height verification technology they’ve claimed to have had in their back pocket for some time now.
How Does It Work?
If implemented, Tinder will ask users (men) to take a full body picture of them standing up next to a wall or some sort. The technology within the app will then take that picture and hold it up to a building that will show and calculate the height of the man. If he is actually the height that he claims to be in his bio there will be a height verification badge that can be seen by users who come across his profile.
Sounds like a good idea, huh? So what could be the problem? Well they’d never ask women to verify their weight or some other shallow shit men tend to care about when it comes to women. Tinder devs seem to be open and unashamed about creating an atmosphere that is shallow and sexually biased. Within the article they predicted about 80% of their male base would leave the app if or when height verification becomes a mandatory thing. Not sure if that’s a stat they should be proud of unless they plan on making the app for women after that 80% male user decrease.
On the flip side, Tinder’s development team wouldn’t have to come up with ideas like this if a large number of users weren’t reporting profiles of men who lied about being 6 feet or taller. But when you think about it, those men wouldn’t feel ashamed of revealing their real height if men weren’t body shamed because of their height.
At The End of The Day.
As much as I hate Tinder I can’t hate on them for wanting men to be authentic. I think people should know by now what they are getting into before signing up for Tinder. No matter where you are experiences between men and women seem to be synonymous. I’m not defending the double-standards of body shaming. I wrote a piece about my thoughts on it here “Height Shaming Short Men Is The Same As Body Shaming Big Women.” by Ernest Raw. https://link.medium.com/daTs0jNHSV.
Tinder is fraud protection. Lying about your height is fraudulent activity. No it isn’t as fraudulent as stealing someone’s social security number and living as them, but it’s still living a lie. Like catfishing but you are who you portray 50% of the time. Catfishing is when someone is 0% of who they are pretending to be online.
Either way, men if this potential game changer Tinder plans on doing comes to light and you have a problem with it just leave the app. There are plenty of other swiping apps out there. I’d say “dating” apps, but don’t nobody use these apps to date. It’s to fuck, pretend to want to fuck (lead on) and to boost ego’s. At the end of the day, stop lying because there are some real down to earth women who don’t give a crap about you not being at least 6ft and care about other shit more than that. You just need to leg go of your own shallowness and then you’ll attract those women. I’m not saying don’t have a preference. I’m saying be fair. And yes I can tell women to stop height shaming, but I already did that here “Height Shaming Short Men Is The Same As Body Shaming Big Women.” by Ernest Raw. https://link.medium.com/daTs0jNHSV
