Amanda Duncil | On 23, Oct 2013

There’s a gag-inducing video that went viral several weeks ago featuring a tackily dressed male dispensing some typical compliments to a random attractive woman a la street harassment style. She casually dismisses him without ever acknowledging him—the tried and true avoidance technique employed thousands of women daily who are subjected to this sort of deplorable treatment on a regular basis— and he shrugs off the rejection while sliding into his expensive car. Immediately the woman’s attitude changes and she appears interested in him, just in time for him to shut her down and drive away victorious.

I had to call bullshit (quite loudly), because this has to be staged, right? The poor girl was being heckled by some rando in a loud shirt, but starts salivating when she spots a fancy car?

I guess I’m much more jaded than initially believed.

Allow me to introduce Carrot, a revolutionary* new dating app that avoids all that silly matchmaking and “true love” nonsense and goes right to the core of modern dating: man wants woman, man sparks romance by offering a ritual tribute of a thoughtless, expensive gift, woman obliges man with a date. Talk about taking obligatory gift-sex to another level.

Carrot is aptly named because women are ostensibly much like large, load-bearing beasts of burden with regards to affectionate courtship stimuli. I can only suppose the creators saw a striking resemblance between the plight of women existing under the salacious male gaze and creatures that are admired for their strong physique and favorable grooming. By logical fallacy, it must have been reasoned that both require same nominal pleasantries and just a smidge of flagrant bribery in order to be wooed.

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http://feminspire.com/carrot-a-new-dating-app-that-thinks-women-are-donkeys/