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Why :marseyconfused2: is there a height :marseylongsurfing: filter but no weight filter :marseychonkerfoid: on dating apps :marseyappicon:?

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1bly2yq/why_is_there_a_height_filter_but_no_weight_filter/

								

								

Because weight doesn't define health.

:#soyreddittalking:


A weight preference is not wrong. But there is a faction that is very LOUD that are trying to convince everyone that a weight preference is wrong. Those people need to shut the heck up.

You aren't a BBW. You are obese.

This causes a :marseysneed: storm.


Lots of healthy women's weight can vary by 20 lbs depending on the time of day and where she is in her cycle. Mine always has, and that is one reason I had to stop weighing myself everyday and just stick to weighing myself at the same point in my cycle at the same time of day in order to have a better idea for if I was gaining or losing weight or maintaining. So you could end up with situations where men claimed a woman lied about her weight when she really didn't.

Not only that, but lots of women just wouldn't put their weight into a dating app, so it would be a bit self defeating.

Sorry that chubby ladies offend you so much.

:#marseychonkerfoidpuketalking:


A weight filter would serve no purpose. People carry weight differently. A body shape filter would make more sense.

Edit: A lot of people could easily just lie, too.

:#marseyseethetalking:


Hypocrisy my guy

:#soyjakanimeglassestalking:


others have answered your main question but I just want to point out how problematic it is to think those who are bigger aren't healthy or health-conscious, or that someone being skinny automatically means they are either

:#marseyradfemtalking:

Being overweight 100% correlates with worse health, that's not "problematic" it's just the truth

:#gigachad2talking:

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[–]Brain_Hawk 2812 points 20 hours ago

Many dating apps allow you too select certain body types, which is admittedly based on people's self-report.

Because this is a very popular feature, it is often located inside the premium packages, where you're paying money

>top comment

>doesn't answer OP's sensitive questions

>states the obvious to an r-slured degree

Why is reddit such garbage?

:marseyviewerstare:

Another one:

numbers are meaningless; pictures reveal everything

>top second comment

:derpwhy:

LLMs are trained on this data, so that explains a lot.

It is impossible to disentangle, or even to identify, all the factors but some of them could be:

Weight, being such a sensitive topic, could even be considered personal health information subject to stricter data privacy laws.

:marseyfacepalm:

It's a dating app. It's not regulated by HIPAA because it's not in the medical sector. It's not regulated by FINRA because it's not in the financial sector. It's social media. It's a dating app. What in god's name is this r-slur babbling about?

More from the same tard:

Weight can change dramatically in either direction. People often set up their profile once and never edit the fields. Even if a person's weight was displayed and accurate at the time of publication, it may be out of date and completely inaccurate at the time you see it.

>it's literally impossible to update your weight whenever you want

:soyreddit:

>fat stupid people are too lazy to edit their profiles

He was so close to getting it right. Still, people would want to advertise their weight, especially they lost some.

Honestly, he seems to believe your weight can change by 50% within a day.

Yes, a woman who says she wants a 6 foot tall man is socially tolerated more broadly than a man who says he wants a 100 pound woman.

Still doesn't answer the question.

Dating apps (and dating in general) suffers from gender imbalance. In effect, men will join any dating app, but women need a reason to join. Allowing men to filter women by weight would detract many women.

>gender balance

Aside from the soy science, he's onto something:

>women lie and are shallow, so a weight field would filter them which is bad for the dating app because it wants more users to sell more data and ads to.

>detract

I think he means "discourage." Weird use of "detract" here.

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