Everyone sucks here.
Both Tea, the leak, and this meme are a result of an unholy amalgam of toxic masculinity, toxic femininity and toxic dating culture.
Do I even wanna know what the Tea App is?
I assume it comes from “spilling the tea”, so I guess it’s basically a drama/gossip collection.
Like the other comment said.
This is a meme because they just got Hacked
The usual corpo fuckery, including
Some included images of women holding photo identification for verification purposes, which Tea’s own privacy policy promises are “deleted immediately” after authentication.
classic
(That’s fucked up)
I’m sure they’ll be held fully accountable and all those photos will be deleted from the internet…
Tea is marketed as a “dating safety tool” for women, and it pledges to donate ten percent of its revenue to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. …
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The app enables the photos to be run through a reverse image search, enabling them to run a basic background check, check against public sex offender databases, and check for photos that might get flagged as being used in “catfishing” — misrepresenting one’s identity online.
The app also features a “Tea Party Group Chat,” which allows users to directly share information about men, and has a rating function, which allows users to share their experiences with Yelp-style reviews, awarding men a “green flag” or a “red flag.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/us/tea-app-dating-privacy-cec
I wonder what would society think about app for men where we share pics and rate/review unsuspecting women?
are men concerned for their safety dating women? Has one in three men experienced sexual or physical violence at the hands of their female partners?
While there’s no denying that women have it worst both in numbers and in gravity. One in nine isn’t anything to scuff at either. People are shitty.
one in three is only sexual and physical violence from an intimate partner, your one in nine stat includes sexual harassment, the stat is even higher for women if you include sexual harassment:
https://interactive.unwomen.org/multimedia/infographic/violenceagainstwomen/en/index.html
it’s not clear to me the sexual violence one in nine men experience are primarily caused by women, either - LGBT+ men such as trans men are at much higher risk of domestic and sexual violence …
Come on. A lot of men being shitty doesn’t justify violating the privacy of every man you’re interested in. If you made this argument about ethnic or religious groups with higher-than-average crime rates, you’d rightly be panned for it. I’m a woman and I think this is awful.
agreed, the app is not defensible, but a lot of men are enjoying and justifying the doxxing of the women users of the app as justice served, and I think that’s abhorrent
Take the factor that men are less likely to report it and multiply that by the one in nine. Chances are it’s actually higher, just stigmatized for reporting.
cringe
