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Sometimes it’s hard to tell what part of a story should make us scratch our heads.
Readers of a certain age may be most surprised that a third of young people use dating apps and that, increasingly so do singles and divorcees in their 50s and 60s. The most surprising fact of this particular story may be that one dating app, Bumble, considers itself a “feminist” operation, requiring women to make the first move in any connection.
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But maybe the oddest dynamic is that people regularly set up fake accounts on these dating websites, posing as celebrities. Probably weirder is that real celebrities actually do use online dating apps. Martha Stewart reportedly posted her profile on Match.com.
Generation X readers might be most shocked to hear that actress Sharon Stone is now 61. And yes, she was on Bumble.
This struck the users of Bumble as unlikely, and they convinced the administrators that this was another fake profile. So, Stone, a sex symbol in 1990s films such as Basic Instinct, Total Recall, and Sliver, was kicked off Bumble.
Whether the complaints came from men believing she was too good to be true or from women not wanting to compete with a Hollywood actress is still unknown. But as of midday on Dec. 31, Stone was stating on Twitter that her account was still erased and not restored. Most of the replies to her complaint appeared to be men on Twitter offering to relieve her of her single status, absent the app.
One woman learning of this whole saga tweeted in exasperation that she was swearing off Bumble: “As if dating werent already hard enough, now I find out I got to compete with freggin sharon stone!”
