There is more to be said about "we built this in two hours" not cutting it as a full excuse. In two hours, three men figured out a new way to reinforce existing privileges for males as heterosexuals. I am calling shenanigans on their obliviousness.

Let's take that happy word "app" away from the equation: they wrote a program. They wrote code that did not simply say "create list x from list belonging to user data; if user A marks user B as state Bang, and user B marks user A as same state, notify each User and send ad for condoms."

Instead they added the gender check. They can claim all they want that it wasn't on purpose, but it bleedin' well was. You can almost guess that half an hour of the coding session was dedicated to three men saying back and forth: "I swear, two other fellow dudes, no homo."

It could be a toggle, but instead it was a wall put into the code. They can't claim they don't know about homosexuality, didn't think about it. They'll swear right now, they aren't thinkin' about peens, bro. They live in a state that just finished re-legalizing gay marriage: pro-gay is pro-capitalism, and writing an app is capitalist.

They may not like being called on their shenanigans. This is too bad: when you enter the public sphere with your creation, you have to accept the response. They may have only spent two coding hours in the closet, but we can all see their closet.