Dating Apps

I was on the train the other day and saw someone on an app designed to get single people dates. Kinda like Grindr but for straight people (it wasn't ... Zoosk, the one that you see advertised everywhere, it was Singlesomething, I didn't recognize it) and the guy opened a picture of a girl, zoomed in on her body and moved the picture around, zoomed out, and moved on to the next picture. It kinda made me sad that a person who would download a singles app is still only focusing on looks. Not only that, I was right next to him, if he really wanted to meet girls he should just start talking to them!

Not that I don't accept that looks are important to both genders, I think I could never date a man who was obese (maybe that's partially about lifestyle, but also about sexual attraction), but the fact that he did not even look at her face made me a little sad. He could have maybe seen other pictures where her face was more prominent before this one, I don't know, but still, maybe we should be moving beyond the dating solely for looks and more into realizing that everyone has their flaws, and if her body doesn't look bad in the normal sized picture, zooming in won't make it any more clear. (That's also kinda creepy...)