Tillmann Prüfer is a member of the editor-in-chief of “Zeit-Magazin”.
I read that there is now a rights dating site in the US. It’s called “The Right Stuff” and was founded by men who were bothered that they couldn’t find the right woman on the usual dating platforms.
This has convinced them that apps like Tinder, Bumple or OK Cupid are leftist and that staunch conservatives generally have a hard time there. I read in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” that the new, right-wing dating platform finally has the female profiles that right-wing men want.
A “red flag”, let one lady know, are “democrats”. I wonder how all these people must have fared before. If they had very promising dates, maybe even a little bit in love, until they realized that they were dealing with a Democrat.
What does that look like? At some point in a very romantic situation, do you ask yourself what the other person actually chose? And what do you do when this “red flag” has been hoisted? Do you invent a bad reason for cutting off contact?
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A difficult matter. At what point should one address political preferences? Certainly not too late, just imagine something like that only coming out after the conception of the first child. And then you have to decide whether you want to bring up your offspring on the left or on the right, or at all.
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That would lead to an avoidable fight. Instead, the framework conditions for a common path through life should be defined at an early stage. In any case, one of these is now lined with more red flags than there used to be red roses.
It is a popular pastime on the internet to exchange views on what the respective “red flags” are, i.e. the ultimate warning signals against wrong partners. For example, if the dating partner can recite the four houses of Hogwarts Magic School from Harry Potter (the literal red flag would be Gryffindor, by the way). For others, it’s people who see Pulp Fiction as a great movie.
All of this seems to point to a representative with a certain, often typically male, self-image. I have no idea how meaningful “red flags” are. They seem to be necessary filters to prevent disappointment. The difficult thing is: Even if you have overcome all the flags, love still has to come at the end.
It may be that, out of sheer pragmatism, men shorten this complicated path by revealing early on that they would like to vote for Trump. But I’m afraid they then forget that there is one type of man that almost all women, whether left or right, do not like very much: anyone who explains to a woman in the first conversation how he would organize the world politically. Then rather those who organize the world according to magic schools.
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