Tea: The App That Lets Women Rate Men Like Used Cars—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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'What it offers is a digital vigilante squad, accountable to no one. Screenshots are disabled. The screen reportedly blacks out if you try, and users are kept anonymous. Despite this built-in privacy feature for its petty users, the same courtesy is not extended to its potential victims of reputation destruction, gossip, manipulation, and social exclusion; all patterns of female antisocial behavior. Women on this app can "access a nationwide forum of posts" and "set alerts for a man's name” so they “never miss any tea about [their] potential date, ex, or partner.”

The app allows women to run background checks, reverse image search, and look up phone numbers, as well as advertise men as walking red or green flags. Chivalrous, funny, respectful, pays for the date, and calls back? Green flag. Toxic, jealous, dishonest, and dating multiple women? Red flag. Any anonymous scorned lover with a grudge and a WiFi connection can now upload photos of a man she wants to vet to the mob of other similarly petty, paranoid women, like a human carfax—a can of worms I can assure women they do not want to open.'