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Does it really empower women to expect them to make the first move?

  • Written by Riki Thompson, Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Washington
Does it really empower women to expect them to make the first move?Bumble seeks to challenge what the company calls 'the antiquated rules of dating.'Daily Herald Archive/National Science & Media Museum/SSPL via Getty Images

Heterosexual dating conventions have long held that men make the first move: first to flirt, first to ask out on a date, first to propose.

What if the roles were reversed?

That’s what...

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