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Devastating WSJ piece on "men" in India:

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Date: June 24th, 2018 10:49 PM
Author: Wild karate windowlicker

Tinder Is Big In India—At Least With Men

Online dating apps try to woo female users in one of the world’s largest untapped markets; ‘not for average-looking guys’

By Georgia Wells in San Francisco and Eric Bellman in New Delhi

June 24, 2018 3:47 p.m. ET

NEW DELHI—Indian men are flocking to Tinder. Now the swipe-based dating app just needs to woo women.

Tinder’s parent company, Match Group Inc., 2½ years ago opened an office in India, considered one of the last large untapped markets for online dating.

Yet like a handful of local dating apps in this traditionally conservative country, Tinder’s biggest challenge appears to be getting enough women to sign on.

In many parts of India, arranged marriages—as opposed to what Indians call “love marriages”—remain the norm, and dating in any form still carries a stigma, particularly for women.

Indian women who have dabbled with dating apps complain they get overwhelmed by all the attention that comes with the surplus of men.

“The barrage of messages that hits your inbox is like a swarm of locusts,” said Anushree Majumdar, age 33, in Mumbai. She uses dating apps only occasionally, she said, and can understand why women are intimidated by them.

The dating app TrulyMadly, which says women make up roughly 20% of its users, is trying to introduce women in India to the concept of “boy browsing” through a YouTube video. Another competitor, Woo, allows women on its app free but charges men, and lets women use initials rather than full names.

“We want women to feel pampered,” said Woo Chief Executive Sumesh Menon, adding that about one-fifth of Woo users are women.

Woo recently co-hosted a singles event in New Delhi with POPxo, a popular women’s lifestyle website—and got a crowd of about 75% men.

At the event, men competed to see who could do the most push-ups and come up with the best pickup lines. The winner: “You have nice eyes.” Another contestant tried a valiant attempt to woo a woman named Konika.

“My grandmother was right,” he exclaimed. “She said that I would marry someone with a name starting in K.”

Konika just shook her head and said “No.”

Woo is also sponsoring a Web series that includes a scene where a woman explains to her friend that dating apps aren’t all bad.

Abhineeta Raghunath, 26, would agree. She signed up for Tinder when she moved to Hyderabad to pursue a master’s degree a few years ago.

“I wanted to hang out with people who weren’t on campus,” said Ms. Raghunath, who estimates she met about 100 people through Tinder. “Everybody is a surprise.”

Tinder doesn’t disclose a gender breakdown, but among the app’s members in India, men far outnumber women, according to a person familiar with the matter.

“Girls get hundreds of matches so it’s hard to stand out,” said 26-year-old Abhishek Madhavan, who went to great lengths to try to distinguish himself.

On his profile, he left notes instead of the typical mug shot to try to attract attention. “Tinder is not for average-looking guys because there are hundreds of dudes just like you,” he said.

Tinder has made urban Indian women the focus of its marketing, running Bollywood-inspired ads, including one with actress Alia Bhatt in which she talks about dating and love, then swipes through profiles on Tinder and concludes she will “go with the flow, one step at a time.”

Another ad, which showed a mother approving of Tinder, was mocked by some Indians as an unrealistic portrayal of cultural attitudes. Tinder has said the ad targeted a subset of the population.

Mr. Menon, the CEO of Woo, said parents have requested he create profiles for their daughters on the company’s dating app. He tells them that’s the daughter’s call.

Some women say they’ve avoided dating apps because of fears they will be judged by friends and family, concerns about safety, and potentially awkward encounters. One woman saw her family driver on an app which made her uncomfortable because it meant he likely saw her on it as well.

Around India, millions of educated young people are leaving their hometowns to pursue jobs in cities, becoming financially independent and buying smartphones. The number of people in India using smartphones in 2018 is expected to grow by close to 16%—the highest growth rate in the world, according to research firm eMarketer.

“In India, any place where there is a high density of educated, smartphone-carrying people, those people are more open to forgo arranged marriage. This is where we focus our efforts,” said Mandy Ginsberg, CEO of Match Group.

Tinder and other dating sites are betting that these urban professionals will make dating more mainstream.

“I think there are enough guys that are open to the idea of dating in India,” said Gourav Rakshit, chief executive of Shaadi.com. “The sociological change will be when girls feel comfortable.”

Shaadi, an online matchmaker that Mr. Rakshit says operates in the “happily ever after” space for serious relationships, runs a small dating business that he plans to expand if dating goes mainstream.

Tinder offers its app in four Indian languages. Besides gaming, it earned the most revenue of apps in India via Google Play, the app store for most Android phones, for the year that ended in April, according to research firm App Annie.

If the online dating sites don’t take off among women, men in India could get turned off.

Abhimanyu Chaturvedi, 28, from New Delhi, spent an hour each day carefully picking potential partners on Tinder. He paid for a premium membership that gave him access to more profiles.

In nine months, he matched with three women. Two of them unmatched within seconds, he said, preventing him from sending them messages, and the third never responded. He tried changing his bio a dozen times and displaying different photos, before taking a break.

“Sometimes I try to laugh it off,” said Mr. Chaturvedi. “I like to joke that maybe I have horns.” He may give it another try. “If it doesn’t work then I guess it is my bad luck. I will go for an arranged marriage then.”

—Corinne Abrams contributed to this article.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-has-lots-of-single-women-but-good-luck-finding-them-on-tinder-1529869656

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009581&forum_id=2#36303951)



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Date: June 24th, 2018 10:58 PM
Author: dashing lettuce

“I wanted to hang out with people who weren’t on campus,” said Ms. Raghunath, who estimates she met about 100 people through Tinder.

lol tinder slut slurping on white cock

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009581&forum_id=2#36303988)



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Date: June 24th, 2018 11:15 PM
Author: Wild karate windowlicker



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Date: June 25th, 2018 1:07 AM
Author: Anal Wonderful People Who Are Hurt Stead

“The barrage of messages that hits your inbox is like a swarm of locusts,” said Anushree Majumdar, age 33, in Mumbai.

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Date: June 24th, 2018 11:18 PM
Author: fluffy zombie-like son of senegal

“In nine months, he matched with three women. Two of them unmatched within seconds, he said, preventing him from sending them messages, and the third never responded.”

jfc

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Date: June 24th, 2018 11:39 PM
Author: Wild karate windowlicker



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Date: June 24th, 2018 11:43 PM
Author: aquamarine candlestick maker

dating in india must be lulzy as fuck.cant blame tommy for forsaking his own blood and soil

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009581&forum_id=2#36304193)



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Date: June 24th, 2018 11:53 PM
Author: glittery buff national security agency

The bigger story here is that a foreign tech invader is trying to undermine conservative Indian marriage culture. And the article focuses on all the unique cultural hurdles these great dating apps face. They should be driven out with pitchforks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009581&forum_id=2#36304239)



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Date: June 24th, 2018 11:58 PM
Author: aquamarine candlestick maker

(mad as fuck indian underclass bro)

forgot what they call the underclass in india

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4009581&forum_id=2#36304263)



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Date: June 25th, 2018 12:00 AM
Author: dashing lettuce

dem untouchables

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Date: June 25th, 2018 12:01 AM
Author: aquamarine candlestick maker

yeah but there was a specific hindi word for them. even learned it in world history class but forgot it. its "pariah" or something like that IIRC

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Date: June 25th, 2018 1:02 AM
Author: talented set

dalits

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