Bumble pickleball advert. COVID masks.
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Bumble pickleball advert. COVID masks.
Charley Gallay/Getty Pictures; Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Pictures
This week, the relationship app Bumble couldn’t keep out of the information. First, the corporate launched an anti-celibacy promoting marketing campaign mocking abstinence and suggesting girls should not surrender on relationship apps. Then, at a tech summit, Bumble’s founder recommended synthetic intelligence is perhaps the way forward for relationship. Each efforts had been met with backlash, and through a time when everybody appears irritated with relationship – the place can folks flip? Shani Silver, creator of the Cheaper Than Remedy substack, and KCRW’s Myisha Battle, relationship coach and host of How’s Your Intercourse Life? be part of the present to make sense of the mess.
Then, it has been 4 years for the reason that begin of the COVID pandemic. A lot has modified – particularly attitudes in the direction of public well being. Brittany talks to, Dr. Keisha S. Ray, a bioethicist, to listen to how public well being clashed with American tradition – how we’re speculated to reside amongst folks with completely different danger tolerance – and what all this implies for the following pandemic.
This episode was produced by Barton Girdwood and Liam McBain. It was edited by Jessica Placzek. Engineering assist got here from Becky Brown. Our government producer is Veralyn Williams. Our VP of programming is Yolanda Sangweni.
