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"Maybe this makes me naive, but I was pretty surprised to discover that under the protective veil of the Internet, sleazy pick-up lines that in the past were really only acceptable to utter to well, maybe to paid sex workers, but more or less never, had become somehow acceptable to utter to real, live human beings," Gensler told PolicyMic.
"Yes, I chose by my own free will to download this app. Yes, I was fully aware that said app was for meeting, hooking up and possibly dating … and I don’t think that there is anything wrong with any of that. That does not mean that I signed up for men online to send rude, crude, sexist, objectifying messages to me (and keep in mind these were just their lines!)."
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