Jamilah Lemieux writes about changing her race and being presented with a different pool of men. It left her wondering: Does the algorithm present white women with the “best” options, or are these men are just searching for white women?
Do you know how humbling it is to get to the very end of the men on a dating app? When you have literally swiped through them all and have to start over, looking at the same guys you passed on, waiting for new ones to join? This happens regularly on Hinge because I only look at the Black guys. I’ve been swiping past some of these men for. Like, “John, 38, no job in bio” and I have rejected each other since the Trump administration.
Now I’m left wondering if this new crop of men popped up because the app’s algorithm codes white women as more desirable, and thus presents them with the “best” options, or if these men are just searching for white women. Neither would surprise me. It’sto marry a well-educated man than white women are. Perhaps Hinge doesn’t think that the most popular guys on there would want us.
Ashleigh, an acquaintance of mine who lives in New York City, decided to give it a try too. She’s a 34-year-old Black sex coach who’s been off and on Hinge for six years. Her settings allow her to view people of all genders and all races, and she uses the free version, which limits how many people you can swipe on per day.
She too is seeing men who generally would not come up in her feed, also with better jobs and education, some of whom live in fancy parts of town. “There are a lot more travel photos,” she laughs. While she’s enjoyed the conversations she’s had with guys so far, there’s only one she’s currently considering a date with, a 36-year-old day trader.
Alanna, a 24-year-old Black woman also based in L.A., changed her race to white on the app after seeing me post on X about my own experiment. Originally from Detroit, she too was startled by the bleak dating landscape faced by Black women in our city; she relocated here shortly after graduating college and hasn’t been on any dates since.
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