Woman Poses as Muslim on Tinder for Social Experiment, Gets Profile Blocked
A Canadian comedian, who calls herself simply Davison on Instagram, decided to do a little social experiment concerning people's views on Muslims. She used Tinder on her experiment and created two profiles: one of a Christian woman and the other a Muslim. She received a surprising result when her Muslim profile was blocked by Tinder.
Davison revealed the surprising result on her LOLPervs (Davison) YouTube page, where she usually conducts sexual social experiments called "sexperiments." She started by asking viewers if they would give these women a chance at a date in the video.
"In this week's sexperiment, it's Muslim versus Christian on Tinder: Davison created two identical Tinder profiles of a 27-year-old woman named Sara, with the same bio of 'faith' and same poses while dressing one in a Hijab and one in secular, modest clothing," read the description on the YouTube video.
The video description revealed that Davison's social experiment aims to see how many matches each women gets. However, the main focus was on the number of matches the woman dressed as a Muslim.
The Muslim Sara reportedly got more "Superlikes" than the Christian Sara. However, Davison was surprised to see later on that her Muslim Sara's profile was put "Under Review." Tinder eventually blocked the account after it was reported by several other users.
Davison noted on her video that she sent several emails to Tinder asking them to reactivate the Muslim Sara's profile. She also included a link to a Facebook page to prove that she is a real person. Davison expressed her concerns to the Tinder administrators that her profile was blocked because of her religion.
Davison expressed her doubts over the reasons why the profile was blocked. Few of the other Tinder users reportedly recognized her face from the two profiles she created. Others even asked her if she was doing a social experiment.
"I have no way of knowing if it's that users were angry because they saw I had two identical profiles, or if it had something to do with the fact that I was Muslim that I was banned, but I find it very interesting that until today, Tuesday, I have a fully functioning Christian Sara profile and a completely blocked Muslim profile," Davison said in her video.
She also noted how this situation is not uncommon among transgender users of Tinder. They are allegedly also banned from using the social dating site.
However, Davison's social experiment only received harsh comments from Maysoon Zayid, co-founder and co-executive producer of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival. She told The Daily Dot that Davison's experiment is "highly offensive" and also described her hijab as "cartoonish."
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