Raven Smith on the problem with dating apps

This week, Olivia is joined by writer and author Raven Smith to discuss the difficulties of dating apps.Raven is a Vogue columnist and the bestselling author behind Trivial Pursuits, a memoir-meets-social commentary book that covers everything from the cultural capital of being tall to what you can tell about a person from the contents of their fridge.In the episode, Raven explains why he would never have met his husband in the dating app era.The two discuss how people curate a version of themselves on a dating app that can never possibly reflect who they truly are and how the saturation of users makes us less likely to settle for anyone.Raven also highlights the bizarre - and fundamentally racist - ethnicity filters on Grindr that have only just been abolished on the app in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.