Apparently, wokefishing is what happens when men on dating apps pretend that they’re “woke” in order to entice potential partners.
If you’ve heard of catfishing and Blackfishing, get ready for another wild phenomenon: wokefishing. The term was coined by Serena Smith in a Vice article about people who had been with their partners until finding out they held problematic beliefs...to say the very least.
Smith writes “A wokefish may at first present themselves as a protest-attending, sex-positive, anti-racist, intersectional feminist who drinks ethically sourced oat milk and has read the back catalogue of Audre Lorde, twice. But in reality, they don’t give a shit.” It’s kind of similar to performative activism and virtue signaling but people are searching for dates or hookups instead of clout. I’m sure a lot of us have been wokefished in one way or another.
Either way, pretending to be progressive on dating apps is something that’s become increasingly popular in the wake of the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests. Whether you like it or not, your politics impact your dating life, and leftists don’t want to deal with Ben Shapiro stans and conservative talking points. We attend family get-togethers for that.
Smith includes a story about a guy who put up a progressive front and openly discussed racism in the UK in addition to criticizing the monarchy. But after the honeymoon phase was over in the relationship, he would laugh at racial slurs. There was also Hannah, who was in a relationship for six months thinking she shared the same views as her partner. The guy she dated critiqued how “white” their educational curriculum was and talked about how he wished his hometown was more diverse. However, he later introduced Hannah to his friends as his “dirty Arab girlfriend” and later confessed to being apart of Nazi groups. Yes, you read that correctly.
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