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pseydtonne · 3860 days ago · link · · parent · post: Prepare To Be Even More Disappointed by 'Bang with Friends' | Motherboard
The program filters for gender if it only shows a user of one gender the friends with the opposite gender. To filter for any gender at all, they have to ask Facebook's API for gender data about users. It's easier not to ask at all and just offer all users. Instead it checks that gender of user does not equal gender of list presented. The computer doesn't maaaaaagically know "boys should want to see girls or it's icky": that's in the app's code. If they plan to add it later, that's only because non-bros made a stink. It doesn't matter if you don't want to see the evidence of breeder privilege. It's there. I spend enough of my life dealing with code to know it took them effort to get this non-toggle option.