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The Women’s Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh, an agency serving victims and survivors of domestic and dating violence, was disturbed by the article “Police: Men meet on Grindr, beat each other up in New Kensington” (Jan. 13, TribLIVE). It included misguided information, victim-blaming, homophobia and an offensive clickbait headline. To call such a horrific and traumatic incident a “fistfight” minimizes a dangerous assault.
The level of detail about the attack is lurid and unnecessary. You name the two people involved, which is public information but discouraged for safety reasons. And by focusing the headline and first paragraph on the fact the men met on Grindr, the article implies that hookup apps, not people who use violence, are to blame for violent acts like this.