Bumble Fully Ends 'Women Message First' Rule After 66% of Women Said They'd Rather Men Make the First Move

Chupadedo · 2026-08-11T19:23:45+00:00

So now you're all traditional women??? LoL. Schrodingers feminists strike again.

ayhme · 2026-08-11T19:29:30+00:00

Bumble stock has lost 95%+ of value since IPO.

Pretend-Storm4566 · 2026-08-11T19:21:48+00:00

Oh, the poor dears. What's the matter, did some women get turned down? LMAO

Punder_man · 2026-08-11T19:21:37+00:00

And then watch as nothing changes at all..
Welcome to "Equality" ladies!

Francis_Dollar_Hide · 2026-08-11T19:28:38+00:00

"Men, you are once again useful to us, please make us money"

- Thanks, but no!

BradenAnderson · 2026-08-11T20:08:59+00:00

Wait a minute! Feminists are always saying how we need to move beyond traditional gender roles. What happened?

O_gr · 2026-08-11T19:17:47+00:00

Most didn't even message first. They just write "hi" and thats it.

Honestly dating apps are not something any self respecting person should use.

Current_Finding_4066 · 2026-08-11T19:28:56+00:00

Women dont want to make the first move, as that is hard.

Suspicious_Form6653 · 2026-08-11T19:49:34+00:00

This sort of things makes me struggle to believe that women are as invested romantically speaking as (their) men, let alone more invested. To be honest, I think women have lower tolerance to any effort-making, so they more quickly think they're doing much and/or more than their SO.

mikiencolor · 2026-08-11T19:25:41+00:00

What a joke. 🤦🤡

precariousopsec · 2026-08-11T22:22:01+00:00

honestly it was already men message first with the stupid hey and smiley face first messages.

Wolverine-Explores · 2026-08-11T19:43:01+00:00

But what about what men want? Was great when women messaged first. Easier to know who was actually interested instead of just matching and never talking.

Cactus2711 · 2026-08-11T20:11:44+00:00

Most opened with ‘heyy’

Women have zero game and then listen to ‘where the hell is my husband’ haha

BitesTheDust55 · 2026-08-12T00:10:02+00:00

Not surprised. They can't handle it. The onus being on men is a comfortable and convenient status for women. Anything else opens them up to a fraction of the humiliation and rejection that men experience, which is unacceptable to them.

CutiePie0023 · 2026-08-11T19:27:14+00:00

LOL. But wait I thought these women wanted “equality??” 😂😂😂

astrawberryandakiwi · 2026-08-11T19:39:54+00:00

And they changed the rules to where you can give low effort responses like “hi” or “hey” convenient right

youarockandnothing · 2026-08-11T19:54:23+00:00

Dating apps are a joke for men anyway. A harmless guy I know who barely dates got on Hinge, and within a couple months he got slandered by someone on one of those "are we dating the same guy" groups just because he stopped seeing her due to her obvious instability. Hell, I've known guys who never date anyone who one day got screenshots from a female friend showing that some local weirdo in one of those groups started asking for "tea" about him, without him even being on a dating app. At this point I wouldn't even be surprised if I got posted, even though I haven't dated in years, just because I'm known in my local community and I'm a single straight man.

Billmacia · 2026-08-11T20:01:37+00:00

So much about making efforts

Gullible-Treacle2361 · 2026-08-11T19:43:11+00:00

The whole point of the app is women message first..now they’re just another generic app where everyone “likes” each other and nothing happens. I’m not on dating apps anymore but hinge and FB dating were way better anyways (for me)

FlyingAvacado · 2026-08-11T19:49:10+00:00

So… what’s the differentiator for bumble vs. tinder? Sounds like people are just gonna uninstall and use the more famous ones?

ReclusiveNatured · 2026-08-11T19:45:35+00:00

No one will use your app

Tolkien_wasnt_racist · 2026-08-11T19:38:05+00:00

No one was texting me regardless

Potomacker · 2026-08-12T04:27:27+00:00

I've been slowly reaching the conclusion that women aren't clear about what they say that they want from the opposite sex

YouSuckAtGameLOL · 2026-08-12T04:58:50+00:00

Dating apps are trash ngl

_GrumpySam · 2026-08-11T20:37:48+00:00

Been saying this ever since it launched its a pathetic idea. Women don’t like making the first move. The grief i got for saying it too.

karl-tanner · 2026-08-12T02:04:59+00:00

Literally every woman would message "hi" back when I was on there. Pointless rule for a lazy population

Thebiglloydtree · 2026-08-12T07:01:00+00:00

Tbh the number of women that were on there back in the day, demanding "why match if you don't message" and not realising they had to, was too damn high.

antifeminist3 · 2026-08-13T00:30:44+00:00

It will become men messaging first. they are already changing the rules to be biased against men

"The app will detect low-effort openers, such as one-word messages, and prompt users to write something more thoughtful before sending."

They didn't have this rule when women messaged first. and many of the openers were 'hey!'

In addition, feminists falsely framed 'men initiating is a power move', and so they wanted to give women the power. Women recognize initiating give the other person the power to say yes/no. Power is in the hands of women in the traditional situation.

Porksta · 2026-08-12T02:29:42+00:00

This never made sense to me. If a girl was interested enough in you to match, why wouldn't they want you messaging them first?

griii2 · 2026-08-12T07:58:17+00:00

All these red-pill women must stop!

Captainsignificance · 2026-08-13T17:22:51+00:00

It boggles my mind how foolish people believe they can build a system that contradicts human nature. It fails every time.

Leadme67 · 2026-08-12T03:06:39+00:00

Yeah, no shit.

805falcon · 2026-08-12T16:12:16+00:00

It only took them how many years. PS the app is still garbage just like the rest of them

Happy_Philosopher608 · 2026-08-12T22:35:06+00:00

So they just nuked their USP??

Hosenkobold · 2026-08-12T09:00:28+00:00

I thought this was r/nottheonion.

West-Word-604 · 2026-08-12T14:56:47+00:00

these apps are profiting off people personal lives, creating algorithms to keep them on the app, and its disgusting.

howz-u-doin · 2026-08-13T13:23:17+00:00

Remember lads, saying no to a women is you being a misogynist and oppressing women as card carrying member of the patriarchy... true men say "yes" to a woman's ask... and when told "gimme!" a true man's answer is "how much?".

Now we just have to stop those simps that actually take the above as actual fact.

alecww3 · 2026-08-11T23:44:10+00:00

Just use a different app? Isn't that the whole point of bumble?

BuilderAcceptable442 · 2026-08-13T02:12:06+00:00

Do they say "non" patriarchy men in their requirement. If they do they just show their dissonance cognitive.

Vanriel · 2026-08-13T16:11:01+00:00

I read this earlier and laughed so much.

Mr_MorningStarX · 2026-08-14T09:07:45+00:00

They cry over pay the bill 50-50 on first date, then How can they make "first move" ? what w@men say and what they follow, both are different things...🤣🤣

OffTheRedSand · 2026-08-12T02:33:51+00:00

didn't a bunch of MRA sue the company because the "women message first" policy discriminated against male users?

now ya'll mad the company did what ya'll wanted

Kingvon3240 · 2026-08-11T19:44:03+00:00

A real man should only like other men😁

Mission_Falcon1225 · 2026-08-11T20:07:36+00:00

Dumb post this sub, just sounds incelly

Title	Bumble Fully Ends 'Women Message First' Rule After 66% of Women Said They'd Rather Men Make the First Move
Author	nrverma
Upvotes	1111
Comments	130
Date	August 11, 2026 7:12 PM UTC (5 days ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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