A brazen test of the line between film and feature-length commercial, Swiped frames as a feminist triumph: one woman’s climb from marginalised tech worker to CEO of a dating app in Blackstone Inc’s vast portfolio of assets. Just, you know... don’t read anything under the “controversies” heading of Blackstone’s Wikipedia page.
For the most part, you can look at Rachel Lee Goldenberg’s biopic of Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd as a light, pleasant bit of empowerment. It’s serious about the entrenched, hydra-headed misogyny of the tech industry and its depiction of Wolfe Herd’s co-founding of Tinder – she resigned and, in 2014, filed a lawsuit against the company for sexual harassment (it was later settled out of court). Under the encouragement of Andrey Andreev, the co-founder of Russian dating app Badoo, she founded Bumble as an alternative dating app that placed control in women’s hands by having them initiate the conversation.
