Tea, especially for us Brits, is a delicious hot beverage, that’s all too easy to make wrong… but for others, it means ‘gossip’. And now, on top of this, it is the name of an app that has taken the online world by storm. It is a ‘womens dating safety tool’, which has already destroyed the lives of an unknown number of men, that pulls ever more at the already frayed fabric of society; and although, yes, this tea is certainly “piping hot”, it will only have a chilling effect on romantic risk taking, and the broader social contract between the sexes. Tea is a women-only app, with a million users, and a waiting list of 13,000 more, that is blowing up across America. Those on it can anonymously upload photos of unsuspecting men; search by their name, phone number, and photos, to find their target, and then indulge in a bitter spite-fest of condemnation, where men (and even boys) are strung up in an digital kangaroo court, to be duly assigned red or green flags, having their alleged past histories, real or not, dredged up and splattered across it’s pages, with no concern for its accuracy. It’s become a black hole of due process, from which no man can seemingly escape; and although, originally, well intentioned, Tea has rapidly descended into what can only be described as a inc*l-like pity-party of resentful women, who drag men, smearing their reputation, body shame, bully, and insult, under the guise of ‘women’s safety’. But Tea, unlike the inc*l forums they seem to mirror, is not shoved into the shadows of the online world, to be yelled at, scorned, vilified, and widely condemned... No... far from it. Tea, is now the number one lifestyle app in America, with 100,000 women joining in a single day this week. And so, let’s pull back the curtain to see and ask what’s really happening, within the man-shaming app that everybody is talking about… What do you think? ~ The Times https://tinyurl.com/bv6b6xkw Dazed https://tinyurl.com/43c6axy5 Ilustrations by Lil Squid Photography by Bruce Mars and Chad Madden #tea #theteaapp #dating

2025-07-25