How Grindr shapes young gay men's sexualities: From idealized bodies to violence

Oh please this journalist can fuck off.

As if the gay nightclubs in the 80s and 90s were any better.

Let him go write for Jezebel.

Malheureusement, I let my €3.99/month subscription to Le Monde lapse and can read only a few paragraphs before I hit le paywall.

Ummm

Male body dysmorphia wasn’t shaped or changed by Grindr

The seminal event was the 1980s and the intersection of several cultural phenomenon

1. AIDS

2. The 80s fitness craze (Jane Fonda, Let’s Get Physical, etc)

3. Extremely muscular action movie stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone

4. The millennial generation being the first generation to be actively targeted as consumers as children, with cartoons like He-Man and it’s associated merchandise showing ludicrously proportioned muscular bodies

This translated into the rise of gay-targeted advertising in the 1990s, where hypermasculine muscled bodies became the predominant signifier of gay desirability for an entire generation

The journalist is probably a zoomer and unaware culture existed before the year 2000

Full article.

She does look like a Zoomer, r3.

This is a female journalist and a female perspective of Grindr. She’s feminizing gay shit.

What's she even doing on Grindr, lol.

Research

Grindr started in2009 not 2010.

I joined Grindr in January 2012 on a Friday afternoon at work. Within an hour, I was at some guy's hotel room in Midtown Manhattan. Those were the days. Nowadays you chat for months with some guy down the street and never meet. SMH