I heard this phrase on the radio. Tinder Food Stamps. It’s a disparaging term directed mostly at women who use Tinder to meet men in whom they have no sexual interest. They are only meeting this person because he will buy them dinner. I’ve never seen Tinder, but I know what it is. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised if a percentage of women use Tinder or other personal ads services to get free food and nothing more, though it seems pretty deeply cynical. I wonder who widespread that practice is. I used personals ads a number of years ago and never got very far with it, but I do not remember feeling financially poorer for those meetups.
The person who mockingly described Tinder Food Stamps was a right wing conservative radio talk show host. I think his ultimate point was to say that millennials are too poor to buy their own food and that Obama is to blame. Or maybe it was mysogynistic. He implied not so subtly that it was only women that pull the free food scam.. and hell, that’s probably true. I don’t know.
This is why I listen to conservative talk radio, though, to spot the bullshit and the weaknesses in the points of view being expressed. You can’t fortify your own point of view on things by listening only to opinions with which you concur.
I think I unwittingly went down that trail while reading up on the philosophy of nonexistence. It’s a lot of bullshit but I’m not a deep enough philosophical thinker to articulate why, so I’ll go along with the consensus that stating “I DO NOT EXIST” is indefensible. I still connect with a lot of the thinking around nonexistence, though. Consciousness is just an atom-thin patina of substance on the surface of the void, the abyss, oblivion. Hah.
