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Online dating can be tough for everyone, but women face a particularly difficult challenge: dealing with aggressive messages from men on a daily basis.
No one likes rejection, but some men on online dating sites like OKCupid and Tinder lack the grace to deal with women politely turning them down. Alexandra Tweten created the Instagram account Bye Felipe to highlight the insulting, ridiculous and sometimes outright threatening messages that women receive online.
UrbanDictionary.com defines 'Bye Felipe' as 'when a male says he's leaving and you could really give two shits that they are. Their name then becomes 'Felipe,' a random dude that nobody is sad to see go.'
The men make overtly sexual comments like 'what is your bra size?' and 'what do you like to do to a guy?' This isn't to say that women aren't open to casual sexual encounters on online dating sites, but such messages do not make the best conversation starters.
The women who send in their screenshots to Tweten's Instagram account say no - sometimes clearly, sometimes apologetically - to the men who message them, and then face verbal abuse and insults in return. Other times, women ignore the rude messages and are still attacked. There seems to be no safe way out of such situations.
Despite the often threatening nature of these messages, Bye Felipe has a biting sense of humor by calling out ridiculousness of the messages with witty comebacks.
Bye Felipe accepts submissions via email. You can find more information on Instagram.
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