Grindr to a Fault

  While we can celebrate the geosocial networking tool, Grindr for allowing us company on the lonely nights, we MUST celebrate the website, Douchebags of Grindr, for revealing what must of us have suspected for a long time: gay men can be pretty rude. If you're not familiar with Grindr, its a curious little app for the iphone, Blackberry and Android that uses your location as a starting point for interaction between gay men. It  is a kind of Craig'sList with chat and while allowed only one profile image, the exchange of images (one has to be certain!) can also occur. One is given a small space in which to spell out one's hopes, desires and an extremely short biography. And herein lies the problem and why we LOVE Douchebags of Grindr: people tend to reveal some of their racism, agism, and other physical demands in a way that, thankfully, Douchebags fully documents. And it is funny. Sad funny, but funny that people really don't mind making an ass of themselves publically, at least that is what Douchebags of Grindr allows us to witness.

Our hats are off to Douchebags for providing comic relief to the world of gay social networking where everything is serious businesss. Thanks to Sam Page for bringing to our attention.