Feb 07
Interview 2
Questions:
- Have you recently felt unsafe when meeting a person for a date you did not know?
- Can you tell me how this experience affected you?
- Has this experience changed the way you date?
- Are you currently using apps/online dating and why?
Interviewee:
03/01/2021 @ 7:30 pm via Zoom
- He felt a lot of negative emotions that amounted to anger.
- He values privacy and being a good person. He believes in treating others with kindness. He lives by treating others like you would want someone to treat your family members.
- He is trying to find a wife.
- He didn’t think he had to worry about his own safety since he is a man. He feels like people only focus on women, but men face issues too. He doesn’t have a solution many solutions. He does ask anyone he goes on a date with to check in with someone if the date gave his info to someone else.
- He asks his parents, friends, and brothers for advice.
- He explained that he felt safe during the date, however, once the date ended his date did not check in with her friend resulting in him being threatened. He feels that being a muscular black man people tend to fear him and react too soon. He also feels that he is afraid of the police every being involved with the current climate with BLM and the police. He genuinely wants to get married and doesn’t have many other options to meet people since he feels prejudged when meeting women in person. He wants the women he dates to feel safe, but he also worries about the women giving his info to others.
