ABSTRACT

The Bye Felipe site is for women because they are disproportionately targeted and harassed online, and in real life, because of their gender. Bye Felipe has acted like an immortalized record of catcalling, which links the harassment women see on the street to the same types of harassment they see in their own living rooms, when they are simply online. Widespread online harassment is obvious to most women who have ever swiped right on Tinder, and to most anyone who has taken a women's studies course. Online straight dating generally tends to be very different for men than it is for women. It seems that most people would rather flip through potential mates from their couches using their phone rather than actually go to a bookstore and bump into an attractive stranger on the off chance that they are single and want to go on a date.