The Right Stuff: the new conservative dating app which has unsurprisingly, failed to attract women

By Lisa Portolan, PhD student, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

The Right Stuff is a new conservative dating app, recently launched in the US. Not yet available in Australia, the app was apparently created “for conservatives to connect in authentic and meaningful ways.”

It offers to bring people together with shared values and similar passions, ensuring users “view profiles without pronouns” and are able to “connect with people who aren’t offended by everything”.

As you might anticipate, the app has drawn immediate, and controversial attention,…

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