New dating app to flirt with “alpha males”: how it works

The Right Stuff , a conservative-leaning dating app, launched last Friday to  unite people who say they share the same Republican values ​​and enable women to find what their users consider “ alpha ” men.

Behind The right stuff (link to the website) is among others  John McEntee , who began as a volunteer in  Donald Trump  ‘s presidential campaign and became a personal assistant to the former Republican president (2017-2021) when he came to power.

The financial support of the creator of  PayPal ,  Peter Thiel , a Republican and openly gay, helped to carry out a controversial product since its presentation in the summer, when the “app” made it clear that users would not need to mention the pronouns with which they identify themselves because there are only two possible options: “men and women”.

Its official launch last Friday shows in its ad women who aspire to find conservative men, who want to have children, independent, “masculine”, who “really” love their families and for whom faith is important.

“From my own experience, the conservatives are more educated. (…) They understand their role as a man in the relationship”, say the girls shown in the promotional video, for whom someone being “Democratic” seems to be their main red line in order to consider a relationship.

“The right stuff” is  free  for all users,  it can only be accessed through an invitation and women also have free access to “premium” services if they invite two friends .

It began to take shape when McEntee, as a young man in  Washington  , was aware of his difficulties meeting conservative girls in a largely progressive city, as he admitted last week in Newsweek magazine.

It is not, however, the only dating app to try its luck with the conservative public.

Donald Daters, Conservatives Only, Righter or Patrio,  designed for “conservative and patriotic” people, are examples of the competition that has arisen against the more general ones, such as  Tinder  or  Bumble .