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[–]Realwoman 31 insightful - 1 fun31 insightful - 0 fun32 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

What is giggle

[–]malleus_maleficarum 95 insightful - 9 fun95 insightful - 8 fun96 insightful - 9 fun -  (4 children)

It's a social networking app that uses facial recognition to weed men out during the automated account set up.

So, here's my recollection of what went down. Anyone else can chime in:

Sall tried to debut it to r/gendercritical.

She received a lot of feedback that the app was: a) not women-only because she was letting trans women in on purpose, b) the term "girl" was viewed as degrading or condescending by a lot of adult women, c) the word "Giggle" was offputting to women who fight to be taken seriously and d) so, so pink, which is reminiscent of gender stereotypes and the pink tax. Also e) facial recognition is creepy.

She told us TWAW and blew off our feedback.

Then she came back months later and basically said we'd been right and trans activists were bombarding her with threats.

...and now this. Make of it what you will.

[–]MarkTwainiac 49 insightful - 2 fun49 insightful - 1 fun50 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Thank you for this. Also, when Sall came back to GC, she still took the position that she was far superior to the rest of us cuz, she explained, she doesn't hate anyone and just wants to be fair and kind and not see anyone mistreated. Implying that we're all a bunch of unkind, unfair haters who want to mistreat trans people.

Re the name "Giggle" and calling women "girls," she told me she wanted it to be a site that's all about being fun, flirty and feminine.

[–]malleus_maleficarum 36 insightful - 1 fun36 insightful - 0 fun37 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

all about being fun, flirty and feminine.

This makes me wonder if she had a bunch of male financial backers pulling strings.

[–][deleted] 32 insightful - 1 fun32 insightful - 0 fun33 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

all about being fun, flirty and feminine.

This makes me wonder if she had a bunch of male financial backers pulling strings.

Seconded. Sounds like such a male way to describe women or maybe women on dating sites trying to appeal to men describe themselves this way.

[–][deleted] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fun, flirty and feminine sounds like that “skirt club” looooool LAAAME