Your Survival Guide to Dating Apps

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper

Comedy

4.4 • 164.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dating apps are here to stay - and when you ask anybody about their experience with the apps, the consensus is that dating apps are a soul sucking experience. Esther Perel joins Call Her Daddy to discuss why dating apps leave us feeling bad about ourselves and how we can add some humanity back into the process. Esther speaks about managing feelings of rejection, creating unrealistic standards, and why first dates often feel like a job interview. She gives advice on how to change our mindset and behavior on the apps so that we can add some excitement and intimacy back into the dating experience. Esther also addresses the pressures associated with age and dating so that one’s own fears don’t lead to panic or settling. Alex and Esther play Esther’s game - Where Should We Begin - and discuss their own experiences with love, heartbreak and adolescence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is up daddy gang? It is your founding father Alex Cooper with call her daddy.
0:09.6	Hello madam. We're back we're back. We're back. I was just saying it's like the cousin who comes for
0:17.0	her annual visit. But it's the best cousin. It's not the annoying cousin. It's not the drunk cousin.
0:24.0	You know, it's the one you look forward to.
0:26.0	Absolutely. Esther, why don't we just get into it, right?
0:30.0	Esther Perrell, welcome back to call her daddy.
0:33.6	It's a pleasure to be back.
0:35.8	I'm so happy you're here.
0:37.4	Esther, I wanted to have you back on the show today
0:40.2	to discuss the reality we live in now when it comes to dating. The apps are
0:46.3	here to stay when you ask anybody about their experience with dating apps. The
0:50.6	majority consensus is that dating apps are a soul sucking experience
0:56.7	but they're necessary to meet people. Why does the dating app experience leave us feeling so bad about ourselves?
1:06.0	Because when you date on an app, you are immersed in what Eva Elu's beautifully calls emotional capitalism.
1:17.0	You have to basically cultivate your seduction capital.
1:22.0	You have to make yourself become a commodity that is desirable
1:26.7	and you are constantly evaluating yourself and evaluating other people. If you don't like it, if there's an item that doesn't sit well with you,
1:37.0	you just go into an immediate ick and you ghost, and that leaves people feeling like you can just be plopped and dropped.
1:48.0	And it is a terrible feeling for a human being to be kind of, you know, just, it's a kind of a swallow and spit. Yeah, I like how you compared it to like, it's like a commercial commodity.
2:16.7	Like you're having to look at yourself like you're like a sales person, like you're selling yourself and
2:22.2	oh does this picture even though it doesn't look
2:24.1	like me will this gain attention and etc so it's it's definitely like a difficult
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