• CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Do I even wanna know what the Tea App is?

    I assume it comes from “spilling the tea”, so I guess it’s basically a drama/gossip collection.

    • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Tea is marketed as a “dating safety tool” for women, and it pledges to donate ten percent of its revenue to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. …

      The app enables the photos to be run through a reverse image search, enabling them to run a basic background check, check against public sex offender databases, and check for photos that might get flagged as being used in “catfishing” — misrepresenting one’s identity online.

      The app also features a “Tea Party Group Chat,” which allows users to directly share information about men, and has a rating function, which allows users to share their experiences with Yelp-style reviews, awarding men a “green flag” or a “red flag.”

      https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/us/tea-app-dating-privacy-cec

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        2 months ago

        I wonder what would society think about app for men where we share pics and rate/review unsuspecting women?

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              one in three is only sexual and physical violence from an intimate partner, your one in nine stat includes sexual harassment, the stat is even higher for women if you include sexual harassment:

              https://interactive.unwomen.org/multimedia/infographic/violenceagainstwomen/en/index.html

              it’s not clear to me the sexual violence one in nine men experience are primarily caused by women, either - LGBT+ men such as trans men are at much higher risk of domestic and sexual violence …

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                2 months ago

                Take the factor that men are less likely to report it and multiply that by the one in nine. Chances are it’s actually higher, just stigmatized for reporting.

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                  True. I personally know two men who have experienced long term physical and emotional abuse from a female partner and neither would ever report it. One still takes the blame for it, the other says it’s not as bad if a woman does it to a man and he knows he won’t be believed anyway.

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                2 months ago

                Come on. A lot of men being shitty doesn’t justify violating the privacy of every man you’re interested in. If you made this argument about ethnic or religious groups with higher-than-average crime rates, you’d rightly be panned for it. I’m a woman and I think this is awful.

    • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Like the other comment said.

      This is a meme because they just got Hacked

      The usual corpo fuckery, including

      Some included images of women holding photo identification for verification purposes, which Tea’s own privacy policy promises are “deleted immediately” after authentication.