Lol, I wanted to get actual ages for these images. Natalie Portman was 19, and Google image search thinks that the dude is a Michael Myers (Halloween) mask.
That's Prince Philip leaving the hospital at 98. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rwSAw4AXaTE
That's the one I knew was Philip! I didn't know we had two of that ghoul
Which was the style at the time. Give me 3 clicks we'd say, because in those days the remote would click.
But everytime anyone has sex, one of them will be going to jail
We can do some wacky relativity hijinx by having people take turns flying at relativistic speeds so the other party ages faster.
"Why your honor, how could I be younger than my partner when I am clearly 55 and they are a mere 23."
And then they charge the other person, have them age up and then they can't book ya for double jeopardy.
It's the perfect plan
Not if you beat the system by having sex with somebody exactly the same age as you and both got to jail
Births are recorded to the minute. Roughly 538 babies are born every minute. Dating sites consist of each user only being able to view from this list. The list only gets smaller over time. But it is the only way for two people to not be involved with someone younger.
Nathan Bronze has a forever copyright on the number and NATO enforces this harshly. Russia has developed technology to access the site bypassing the paywall because due to local laws same-sex relationships are illegal so their site is 269 reflecting half of the Bronze number. Worldwide people giggle softly to themselves as the only libre options for relations are “to sixty nine”.
Not as old as Tom Bombadil who is older than the trees and the forests.
But this man is 63. Flip the numbers.
Oldest and fatherless, well except for Shelob. We have no idea what's going on there she just showed up and claims to have always existed.
Shelob is Ungoliant's kid, and Ungoliant is all the Vala going "What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck we did not sing that in to existence what the fuck?!?!?!"
I just read like forty pages of the LotR wiki so I could pull out this fact at parties and people would think I'm cool.
Morgoth making an alliance with the personification of hunger, fucking around: "haha yes! Yes!"
Morgoth getting eaten by said spider two hours later, screaming for his Balrogs to come earn their keep, finding out: "haha this sucks"
The killing of the Two Trees would make an awesome movie, all by itself.
You'd have to get a humdinger of an actor to play Morgoth, like Heath Ledger in Joker, and some good CGI for Shelob, but it would be the most bad-ass evil move ever. Lots of inspiring heavy metal music. Gentle people would be leaving the movie in tears.
I love that there's shit beyond the supposed creators of the world in LOTR. Cthulu ass nightmares deep beneath the earth, with all these pretty well to do God's either ignorant or afraid or both of them.
https://youtu.be/rZkUlv1VVnQ
If you are curious!
this is unironically how the Metal Gear Solid universe views male aging though lmao
Ugh Otacon I'm trying to sneak by but all the ladies are chasing after me because of my silver fox look!
same, except i think it rocks
can't wait to look like a stern old bitch at 35
for men in their 30s, gray should be like finding 4 leaf clovers. This man has gray hair like he's 50+
also the medical condition where all your hairs turn gray when you're young and your hair is otherwise still healthy looks really fucking cool
Everybody hated this.
Seriously though once you hit 30 you're a double adult and you can do whatever (whoever) the fuck you want and anyone who obsesses about it is a weirdo.
I've been poly for years so I date on and off constantly and I've found that even as I age, my age floor stays around 25/26. Initially I found anyone younger than that to just be too immature and these days I find anyone younger than that to literally look too young to be attractive to me. 25+ really does seem to be the age of being an actual adult
Vocel Vanguard remains on undefeated. No need for yet another discourse if you don’t date.
wtf why no emote in spoiler tags now
The last time I went through a bunch of effort to meet people I was having fun talking to someone, set up a date and then got slow ghosted the day of. First it was "oh I'm waiting for a package idk exactly when we can go" and then I was like "aight its been like 8 hrs what's up" (not literally those words), and got no reply, then later a notification that they messaged me, that when I clicked on just disappeared and they were gone from my app, so I assume they blocked me but I don't even get the satisfaction of knowing what they said. Love that.
Why is the man the older one in the overwhelming majority of age gaps?
Socialization of men in the imperial core is centered on predation and objectification of young women as embodiments of innocence and fragility.
Not really, age gaps are larger outside of the imperial core, with men still being the older partner.
If it is a problem, it's a global societal one.
For real. I've seen 40 year old men with teenagers in Guatemala. That shit's disturbing.
"He's not the vector of exploitation, society made him do it"
Right.
society didn't make them do it, but it did train them to believe that it's acceptable
both the men in question and society as a whole share in the blame
I don't see why anyone needs to be blamed, if this is what everyone wants. To be clear, I'm taking about small age gaps in relationships, around a few years or so. Not the large age gaps. It's something that is prevalent in every society accross the globe, that the man is the older partner and the woman is younger. Maybe it's something to do with evolution or the formation of societies and socialisation, I don't know I'm no expert. All I know is that as a man, if you try to date women older than you, even if it's just a gap of a few years, you're in for a tough time in general.
I'm taking about small age gaps in relationships
i wasn't, but i understand that was not explicit.
It's something that is prevalent in every society accross the globe
yes, but so is patriarchy. the sample pool is a little bit tainted. men have been taught that they own women since i honestly don't even know when, the advent of agriculture? the birth of christianity? who fucking knows, but the point is that something being normalized doesn't make it necessarily natural.
I don't know I'm no expert
now this? this i feel. i don't know shit either.
luckily we're not setting the laws that dictate age gaps in relationships. this is just conversation.if you try to date women older than you [...]
ngl this was not my experience in the slightest when i was a boy but i acknowledge that's purely anecdotal and probably its own set of issues. i will say though that yes, of course you're going to receive more societal pushback and all around have a harder time than a 50 year old dad looking for an 18 year old girl to fuck. it's not normalized for men (or masculine people in general,) to desire women older than they are, even if it's a completely normal age gap (whatever that means to you, but let's say something widely regarded as otherwise inoffensive like 3-5 years).
the advent of agriculture? the birth of christianity
it was agriculture at least the Romans literally had sexual assault classified legally as a property damage crime against the woman's husband or father and that was pre-Christianity. If anything Abrahamic religion made Europe better in that regard
Well do you think male biology makes them monsters? Individual choices? Careful, that sounds like conservative speak.
I think that people participate consciously in social trends, not unconsciously.
There have been people I've been attracted to but have not even flirted with because they were 19 or 20, and it's important for their social development and balance to have someone to date who's close to them in age (and a mumber of other things).
There was someone I was reluctant to get involved with because they were 7 years older than me, but that was balanced out by other factors like emotional stability.
When men are dating women much younger than themselves, it means there are fewer women for men of that age to date, and it's a sort of domino effect where you end up with very young men and very old women being the most alone.
Age gaps are a very close proxy for patriarchy. Less than 4 years and you can write it off as "maybe boys mature a bit slower. Biology defines a range of possibility and a few proclivities, and the shape of society does most of the guiding. But what is culture if not the sum total of our personal selections? For a very long time, children have grown up with peer groups mostly just a few years in each direction. I think people know when something crosses outside that dynamic, and I think people know that a relationship like that is more transactional than loving.
I think a lot of people are a lot less conscious of the prevailing social and material forces of history that ultimately guide their actions than you give them credit for. I don't think people consciously think about a lot of the social trends they're participating in.
Age gaps are a very close proxy for patriarchy.
So I agree with that. I would argue that that's what I'm saying in general.
But what is culture if not the sum total of our personal selections?
I don't think that's a good materialist accounting of how culture works, is shaped, moves.
I think people know when something crosses outside that dynamic, and I think people know that a relationship like that is more transactional than loving.
My original point was essentially that patriarchal society shapes the socialization of men to view women as objects/fragile. That was to answer your question about age gaps. So I don't see why you made a snarky comment when it seems that you largely agree with me on this. I'm not defending any particular man as being unable to not be the vector of exploitation. I recognize that they are. But that doesn't really answer a question about why that's a trend that we can observe. Not to a materialist like most of the people here anyway. Maybe a liberal could be satisfied fully by writing off the actions of men as an aggregate onto individual cases of them being vectors of exploitation, which I understand to be something that is so pervasive, you'll see people that are otherwise progressive engage wholeheartedly in a misogyny deeply rooted in our violent patriachal cultural. But I don't think you're trying to "be a liberal" about it or whatever.
Maybe the best way to express my position is that I'm against the normalization of it.
well...yeah. i am as well. i don't think i was really arguing that we should normalize it. it is normalized i suppose, but that's genuinely part of the reason i don't like going outside. men being men under patriarchy is a gross thing to look at.
Because it's what both men and women want in heterosexual normative relationships. Any man that has tried to seriously date women older than him knows that.
For the exact reasons as to why that is, I don't know exactly, I'm not an expert in human behaviour and societal norms. One could guess that women value the experience, maturity and status of a man a few years older than them, they are usually further along with their journey though life. Men could value youth and perceived innocence of someone younger than them. But it's something that's prevalent in pretty much every society accross the globe, so it's something to do with general human behaviour.
I talking about small age gaps of around a few years here, not the large ones.
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A lot of people online cant help themselves on this subject. Its consistent across every website. I dont get it.
um excuse me sir but I will have you know that I look like a spritely boy-prince and will not accept this slander (finna look like current Chomsky when I hit mid-30s tho can't cap)
Quit nicotine, don’t drink as much, moisturize your face, wear sunscreen. That will give you your best face for the longest.
This is all good advice and I fortunately don't smoke cigs but I'm afraid my Twink Death Arc is not stoppable, don't ask me how I know I just feel it in my bones.
Oh, yeah, twink death is unstoppable, but you can delay the end of The Last Crusade scene a while longer.
wtf I came into an 85 comment thread for some Discourse!! Wheres the spit and bile? Wheres the pointless arguing??Everyone here is just agreeing about it being fine!
One, two, Philipp comes for you
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