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Effective prostitute promotes dating app that covers ‘date preparation costs’ paid by the man
The criticism of dating, and relationships in general, has long been that, stripped of all its romantic pretense, it boils down to de facto prostitution — i.e., trading sex for money.
Obviously, the world is a complicated place, and there are gradations to consider.
Is the trophy wife, for instance, a prostitute in the literal sense of the word?
That’s more of a philosophical question than a practical one, in that there’s usually not a direct, explicitly stated transaction of “sex for X amount of money.”
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Women want financial/resource security, and men want sex. These things are deeply ingrained biological imperatives, and arrangements in which each party brings what they can offer to the table — in the nuclear ideal, for the purposes of creating a family — don’t necessarily amount to prostitution.
But this dating app scheme, devised by TikTok star Amanda “Mandy” Michelle, makes the whole arrangement a little more explicit.
After I said I would require a deposit to take me on a date to cover my date preparation costs, I’m now working with an app developer to make this a reality… We are building the app… The woman can set the deposit rate and the man can pay for her date preparation costs. So, as a woman you’re going to walk into the date already so happy, and that’s going to lead to a better date and a better connection. And that gives the man a better chance of succeeding in courting you.
De facto prostitute demands men on dating apps front money for "date preparation costs," designs app based on financial exchange pic.twitter.com/y4DadPcJcW
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) February 23, 2026
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Future single mother gets an early start in man-hating
What looks to be a teenage girl performance artist in a genre of online content called “makeup tutorials” — ostensibly meant as guides to applying cosmetics but in practice just venues for women/girls to treat the audiences to vapid observations about life — explains that suitors asking her “dumb**s questions” like “how was your day?” have “too much audacity.”
Instead of attempting to engage in small talk, they should spend their time “going to war,” “chopping her wood for her,” or “getting her a Starbucks Refresher” (whatever that means).
Another casualty of modern feminism
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) February 23, 2026
Sad! pic.twitter.com/YXog2wb7Xf
As far as the actual message is concerned, though, no matter how nauseatingly entitled the messenger might be, she actually has a good point that the young men of the land ought to take to heart: asking narcissistic women/girls who have been trained to hate men banal questions like “how are you doing?” in an attempt to ingratiate yourself to them is an exercise in futility, and will only make serve to make them hate you more.
At the end of the day, the only way to win the game is not to play. There is no fixing this person; trying to turn her into a decent human being by treating her well is a fool’s errand; this way lies madness; run.
If an adolescent male in America solicited me for dating advice, my knee-jerk response would be that women outside of the United States and the West more broadly, who have not grown up on girlboss pop culture, are way nicer.
Which is not to say there aren’t great partners to be found in America or the West at large — just that the quantity seems to be inversely proportional to the amount of feminist propaganda they are subjected to over time.
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Just something to consider.
People can get mad at me for being unpatriotic or whatever. But I can’t be blamed for relaying the truth, as any expat who has lived outside of the West can confirm.
