Woman shares vile rant she received on dating app Bumble after asking bloke where he works
The dating app stepped in to defend Ashley by posting an open letter to the guy on how to speak to women
A DATING app has publicly shamed a bloke after he lost his cool and sent nasty messages to a female match when she innocently asked him where he worked.
Ashley Helmbreck, from the US, was using Bumble, which only allows women to start a chat with their matches, when she received a barrel of abusive messages from a user called Connor.
The conversation starts off normally with both parties asking how's it going.
But after Ashley responded "pretty slow at work, what do you do?" - it turned very ugly.
Connor replies: "Huh? Is that always the first question following your opener from you?"
Defending herself, Ashley explained that since she was describing her work it made sense to continue the flow of the conversation.
But then he completely loses it and accuses Ashley of "recklessly" bringing up work and "prying" into his career before getting to know him.
He then proceeds to call her an "entitled, gold digging wh*re", insults her career, salary and educational background, while at the same time celebrating his own.
He even managed to negatively bring Beyoncé into the vile discussion.
It came to the attention of the dating app, created by Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe, after her friend tweeted screenshots and .
Bubble, which branded the guy as a "small-minded misogynist", quickly stepped in to defend Ashley by posting an on how to speak to women.
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The wrote: "The made small talk, you felt personally attacked. She mentioned her work day and asked about yours; you assumed that she was prying into your financial status.
"We are going to venture a guess into the state of mind of Ashley here, given that we are all working women ourselves. Take a seat, because this concept may blow your mind. Women nowadays work. It’s happened over time, we know, but a vast majority of women from our generation have jobs.
"With that in mind — and knowing that Ashley simply mentioned work in the conversation — we can gather that she wasn’t hoping to figure out if your wallet was sizeable enough for her to move into your house and start cooking dinner for you after vacuuming your living room while you clock in a 9 to 5 work day.
"Instead, Ashley was (wait for it, Connor, because this is where things really get interesting), viewing herself as an equal. It might sound crazy, but people connect over the basic routines of life. You know… the weather, working out, grabbing a drink, eating, and working."
In the letter, the company announced that Connor has been blocked from using the app and created the hashtags #ImWithAshley and #LaterConnor, which many users have been using to support the woman on social media.
After sharing the letter on Facebook, .