The term "millennials" has become an expletive used to describe a person roughly 18 to 28 years old. "Millennials" instantly connotes a crowd of unemployed hooligans who spend their days laying on piles of daddy's money making cat memes with iPhones surgically attached to their bodies. We're entitled little shits with an inflated sense of self who refuse to accept anything less than designer despite our $28K-per-year-before-taxes income. Oh, and our personal lives are fucked.
If you haven't read the NY Times in the past week, then you might not know about a little app that's having a major moment. Lulu. As a woman, it connects with your Facebook and displays all of your male friends accompanied by a rating that was submitted by women who've dated them. If you know me, you know that I'm often found hanging WANTED fliers on telephone poles looking for the elusive Chivalry or on a soapbox spouting about the modern man's misogynistic deals with the devil. Young women have somehow lost the power that accompanies the dating game- despite having the curves and the hair and the hole - we are often still the ones waiting around for our phone to light up with name we're "dating". And often times we really are just dating a name on a screen - our relationship defined, yes by our time together, but also largely by the thread of characters that allows us to stay connected wherever, whenever.
According to a recent article on Forbes covering the advent of Lulu, such an app means that we must have more shallow relationships and apparently we're also lonelier. Maybe this is true - the popularity of other relationship-based apps like OkCupid and Tindr perpetuates the on-to-the-next-best-thing mentality. With these dating apps, I've personally witnessed and experienced a vast difference in the reasoning behind use between men and women. Women crave an emotional connection; men crave a physical one - and because of this, women will always lose. Maybe older generations have a hard time wrapping their minds around the concept of relationships in 2013, but whether it's "acceptable" or not, it is what it is - which is why Lulu is the outlet women have been waiting for.
It's not, as Forbes describes it, a revenge mechanism - it's simply a balance of power. Let men abuse dating apps and let them sext multiple women at once - but we're not sitting silent anymore. Men claim to feel violated, but it's actually just an attempt to justify their fear of being found out.
Sorry we're not sorry about your 6.2 rating. Play nice, sweetheart! We're all watching.
