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[–]malleus_maleficarum 95 insightful - 9 fun95 insightful - 8 fun96 insightful - 9 fun -  (3 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.

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    [–]malleus_maleficarum 35 insightful - 1 fun35 insightful - 0 fun36 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    It appears she's trying to do a 180 on the female-only stance in order to save her business.

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

    Exactly. How long until she turns coat again to make more money?