‘No Blacks’ Is Not a Sexual Preference. It's Racism.

[Marr]

3. I expect they'd show something similar. I read an article recently about online dating apps

and rejection rates of various groups (young, old, a variety of racial/ethnic types, etc.). Some had markedly wider acceptance, among not only their own specific group, but others. Other groups had notably higher rejection rates. IIRC, black women and asian men got the worst of it. White men and asian women got the widest selection of positive receptions.

It's an interesting topic, and while I definitely think it's racism, it's one that's also oddly hard to condemn people for. I mean, it would be awfully hard to call say, a black woman, a racist for not wanting to date white men. I've also known lots of women who wouldn't date men of certain ethnicities (specifically, the ones I knew had refused men from Mexico, and parts of the Middle East) because of the tendencies for certain attitudes towards women that they'd noted in the past from men hailing from those places.

And while generalizing such attitudes certainly seems unfair to me, we're talking about a setting where the pool is for all intents and purposes infinite, so they figured they weren't losing anything by cutting out whole swaths of the population in that way.