Why is there a double standard when it comes to age gaps in relationships?
Where men can date 10, 15 years younger and no one says anything but when a woman dates a man 5 years younger, it's seen as strange and wrong?
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SwickDinging
It's accepted because historically men have usually taken much younger wives. The same is not true the other way around. So people are more used to it.
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RoseIsabella
I think this is accurate, but it's always grossed me out whenever significantly older males were interested in me.
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farkelu
Pretty much. It's probably rooted in our natural instinct for the male to procreate with fertile young members of the species, as long as he is capable. Older females, who had already been mated and given birth, perhaps many times, were no longer fertile and of no interest to the male. Of course, eventually a slightly younger, stronger, and more virile male will challenge the older one, and often drive him out, where he is left alone or accompanied by an older female, and they die shortly after. It's called "nature".
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RoseIsabella
I dunno, I think it's just a stupid patriarchal double standard. I'm not a fan of dating when there is more than a ten year age gap. I've never dated, nor do I have any desire to date anyone who is significantly older than me. I've dated more than my share of younger guys, but I didn't really pursue them, they perused me.
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ChefJfay
I think people should be able to date whoever they want. I’m 31 my girlfriend is 13. To me age shouldn’t matter unless obviously it’s a very young child. You can’t help who you fall for and who falls for you. As long as both people in the relationship are happy and nothing is being forced people should just mind there own business.
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RoseIsabella
So what you're telling me is that you're a pedobear. Not cool... not cool, dude. I could put a bullet in a child molester's skull, and I wouldn't feel a thing except for the recoil of my weapon.
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ChefJfay
I didn’t say it was a sexual relationship at this time.I said we are dating there is absolutely nothing against the law in dating. We haven’t been intimate yet. I’m willing to wait until she is 16 which is the age of consent where I live. We’re both wiling to wait because we know we’ll have the rest of our lives for the intimacy aspect of our relationship.
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[Old Memory]
In some cultures women want to be with a man who has already established himself a little bit in his career and community. Establishment most commonly comes with age.
Also guys are morons when they are young. I know girls who say they can’t even trust a man under 30
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bigbudchonga
It's due to basic biology. Women are on a short biological clock, whereas a man's SMV peaks at something like forty.
People should be able to do whatever they want, but there's an innate biological/evolutionary reason that it's seen as odd. A 30-year-old man going out with/ marrying a 45-year-old woman will very likely fail to have children, and thus in a basic evolutionary sense fail to spread their genes.
Whereas as a 30-year-old woman partnering with a 45-year-old man will still be fertile, and find a partner who's established in his field, still fertile, and capable of providing.
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LornaMae
I've already said it around here but I've hit someone half my age and someone over twice my age. The former was shocking to some and the latter acceptable... so yeah, double standards!
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d0esnormalmatter
It's become normalized because of a biological difference in reproductive function.
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FromTheSouthWeirdMan
I dont see it as a big deal. I think it probably has more to do with a man being young and not wanting an uglier older woman. They want something fresh.
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EnglishLad
Older doesn't necessarily mean uglier. That's a sweeping generalisation.
Also, if you are only dating a woman based on how hot she is/how much you think she'd turn you on with your pork sword up her wireless receiver, then you're shallow, selfish and immature.
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Thicky69
You should fuck whoever you want to fuck ages just a number anybody see it definitely is just shallow or immature if you’re attracted to them and they treat you right then get your fuck on
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SsaucySam
Females develop faster than men. It only makes since then that female partners be younger. However, My Mother was 10 years older than my father. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.
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EnglishLad
No such double standards exist over here across the drink. Anyone can love who they want. It might come off as a bit weird if one of you is 64 and the other is 25, but that goes for both men coming onto women and women coming onto men.
To be honest I'd quite happily date a woman of 35 at 30, and I'm male. So what?
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LloydAsher
Because the majority of men of all the age groups find that the 20s is the most attractive age of females. Women are way more predictable with them generally perfer men that are older then them.
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Sad18yo
In my experience it actually seems to be the other way around. Not to mention, women who date younger men get a cool title whereas men who prey on younger women are just known as pedophiles.
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