Do You Consider Yourself A Feminist?
In brief: In 2018, Sarah claims that her account's concept (asking men on dating sites if they are feminists) belongs to her. She states that accounts utilizing similar concepts are stealing.
How original is it to ask "Do you consider yourself a feminist?" on dating sites?
2012
Tinder launches.
2013-14
Various Twitter users juxtapose Tinder and feminism.
2014
Jamie Primeau writes the article “Are Guys On Tinder Feminists? I Asked Men On Tinder How They Identify, and Here Are Their Answers". Bustle publishes it on September 2, 2014. The Huffington Post shares the article on September 9.
2014-15
Laura Nowak experiments with including feminism in her Tinder interactions. She documents her experiment on Instagram.
2015, February 5
Buzzfeed publishes an article, written by Rossalyn Warren, about Nowak’s experiment. The article includes details about how Instagram shut Nowak’s account down earlier that month.
2015, August 20
The Daily Mail publishes an article about Laura Nowak and her account.
2015, August 24
The Huffington Post publishes “What Happened When This Woman Included ‘Feminist’ On Her Tinder Profile” about Laura Nowak.
2015, August 25
Elite Daily publishes “Woman With ‘Feminist’ In Tinder Bio Completely Destroys Sexist Men”. This article states Nowak’s account @feminist_tinder had 28k followers.
2015, August 26
BUST publishes “What Happens When You Say You're A Feminist On Tinder?” about Laura Nowak.
2015, Unknown
Sarah creates her first Instagram account which she uses to post her Tinder experiences. The podcast Don't Waste Your Pretty, published April 12, 2017, records Sarah saying she created her account “about 2 years ago”. In the same podcast, Sarah says this account had about 500 followers, “all local”, when Instagram deleted it. She did not try to get her account back. She began her second account sometime after that.
2017, February—
March
Sarah discusses an issue regarding @mr_justbe. The following two pictures depict (a) a Facebook conversation between Sarah and Bianca (@whydidyouswiprightho), who released this screenshot, and (b) a caption Sarah posted on her Instagram.
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2018, March
Sarah encourages her followers to report the Instagram account @areyouafeminist_ . The following picture is from an account that followed Sarah.
2018, March
One of Sarah's followers alerts her to the following article (the url currently leads to an error page). Purportedly, the article is about the Instagram account @AreYouAFeminist_ . The following pictures show Sarah's reaction.
Follower's message:
Sarah's reaction post:
2018, March
Sarah posts the following caption on her page.