From The Tea App To Princess Treatment: How The Right Wing Agenda Is Poisoning The Dating Pool
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Should you quiz your man on if he's doing princess treatment or the bare minimum? Are you allowed to look waiters in the eye or would that ruin you and your husband's night? Have you tried to check if your Hinge date is a creep and ended up getting doxxed by 4chan? If you're single and looking to mingle, these extreme situations - or, extreme online recommendations of how to act - are getting more and more commonplace.
In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina discuss how the right wing agenda is poisoning the dating pool, whether the widening politics of gen z men and women are affecting romance and why uploading your ID online is the opposite of a step towards a safe internet experience.
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