Why Is She on Tinder If She Needs a Job?

"She can go on, what, Tinder? Hinge? Pinterest? Whatever. Wherever the sloop machines aggregate. And she can lay out her wares and say, pull the lever, guys. Maybe you'll get something. Not really."

Brian and Alison read another Luke Olinga piece, this one building a case about modern courtship out of a four-line joke that travelled from Turkey to China, Japan and Europe.

Also: why her behaviour forecloses his own claim that she's living in precarity; the man who Venmos her the money unasked, and why he's toxically masculine anyway for possibly feeling good about it; the dating bar moving from the zeroth percentile of income, to the twentieth in the nineties, to where it sits now; and a heckler who turns up to tell them they're pathetic, from inside the stream he's watching.

"Why is she dating, then? Why is she dating if she's hungry? Why isn't she getting a job? She's dating because she wants to get married? Then what's the problem? Why is she leading with all the stuff she should get once she's put a ring on it?"

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