The Corporate Takeover Of Dating
05/31/21 • 70 min
Nancy Jo Sales is a New York Times bestselling author and award winning journalist whose work you might know from The Bling Ring, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, or her documentary filme Swiped. Her newest book, Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno addresses a topic very close to this community: Big Dating and the corporate takeover of our search for love. It’s not just you—maybe the gamification of dating is actually that bad. This episode hits home, hard.
CW: This podcast episode includes a brief discussion of rape and sexual assault at the very beginning of the interview.
Nancy Jo Sales’ website
Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno
Books mentioned in the episode:
Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
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Nancy Jo Sales is a New York Times bestselling author and award winning journalist whose work you might know from The Bling Ring, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, or her documentary filme Swiped. Her newest book, Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno addresses a topic very close to this community: Big Dating and the corporate takeover of our search for love. It’s not just you—maybe the gamification of dating is actually that bad. This episode hits home, hard.
CW: This podcast episode includes a brief discussion of rape and sexual assault at the very beginning of the interview.
Nancy Jo Sales’ website
Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno
Books mentioned in the episode:
Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
Join the Patreon for A Single Serving Podcast to get full access to all weekly podcast episodes in 2021.
May Patreon Episodes
Words, Wine, & Walks, featuring Sara K Runnels
$100 Cashmere Onesie, featuring Melanie Notkin
Raw, featuring your host, Shani Silver & 3 Subtle Ways Single Women Are Bullied
Anti-Racism Resources For My White Friends & Readers
Podcast logo by Johanna Pendley
Podcast hosted on Buzzsprout
Transcript of podcast via Otter
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Welcome to a single serving podcast. I'm your host Shani Silver. And I want to change the narrative around being single, because so far, it's had pretty bad PR. What if we stopped seeing single life is wrong, and stop trying so hard to fix it by finding partnership at any cost. Relationships are amazing, and we deserve to have them. We just don't deserve to be miserable. In the meantime, if you're ready to stop hating single life, and to recognize
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