Well, the body positivity movement has back paddled, I guess it’s the perfect time for the age gap thing to make a comeback. Through media, of course, which seems to dictate how we see… everything?
I haven’t read the link yet, but I’m calling it now: It’s going to be because the current batch of young men are too shitty so young women have to date older guys.
EDIT: LMAO, I CALLED IT!!! It’s right in the summary under the title. I didn’t even get to the article yet.
“In a world where more and more younger men are following Andrew Tate and going deeper into the manosphere, a rising number of Gen Z women are choosing to date older people.”
Article says it’s because GenZ men suck (thats true).
I also wonder if it’s media doing so, however. My partner has been reading lots of mafia, crime, fantasy, and dark romance novels, and (this is a guesstimate) 70 percent of them involve massive age gaps, and half of those involve the couple meeting when the girl is underage (wtf). These are all women authors, btw, not men. I have seen some GenZ women go after older men, and this student worker at work wanted to go to Italy to look for mafia dudes…..
Yeah as a 29F anecdotally trying to date men within my “age range” for a decade was an actual nightmare. You grow up with all these expectations of what dating other adult men will look like, because you see you and your girlfriends growing up, maturing, becoming better with age….
And then you go on dates with men your age and it’s just like…wtf happened? All of these grown men behaving just the way they probably were at 14 years old. No growth. No emotional depth nor intellectual curiosity. I deadass have been uncomfortable on dates with men my own age because they’re stuck acting like an irrational teenager. The final straw for me was an ex boyfriend who decided during the 2020 election to vote third party simply because he thought I was one of the sheeple for “blindly” voting democrat…meanwhile he couldn’t tell you a single thing about the third party candidate’s platform. But he was so enlightened™️ to be “part of the movement that will get third party out in the mainstream” as if the 2020 election wasn’t the most important one of our generation to not f*** around with
I was so utterly turned off and not attracted to men my own age that by 26 I just started exclusively dating older men. Like others have said, there’s still plenty of incel types with older men, but there’s a decent pool of rational headed men too. Obviously I knew why they were interested in someone my age, but hey, it’s a worthwhile trade off to not deal with overly confrontational, emotionally immature men of my own age who want to be contrarians so bad because they’re so fragile that they have to put down the women in their life to feel better about themselves
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Well, the body positivity movement has back paddled, I guess it’s the perfect time for the age gap thing to make a comeback. Through media, of course, which seems to dictate how we see… everything?
I haven’t read the link yet, but I’m calling it now: It’s going to be because the current batch of young men are too shitty so young women have to date older guys.
EDIT: LMAO, I CALLED IT!!! It’s right in the summary under the title. I didn’t even get to the article yet.
“In a world where more and more younger men are following Andrew Tate and going deeper into the manosphere, a rising number of Gen Z women are choosing to date older people.”
So gen z women. I’m assuming gen z men are….. what you would call involuntary celibates?
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Voluntary celibates….so self induced unconscious celibacy.
Considering the girls they interviewed were all like 18, I can confidently say teen boys have always sucked.
Article says it’s because GenZ men suck (thats true).
I also wonder if it’s media doing so, however. My partner has been reading lots of mafia, crime, fantasy, and dark romance novels, and (this is a guesstimate) 70 percent of them involve massive age gaps, and half of those involve the couple meeting when the girl is underage (wtf). These are all women authors, btw, not men. I have seen some GenZ women go after older men, and this student worker at work wanted to go to Italy to look for mafia dudes…..
Odd take given the scummy guys in their generation are the kids of the guys they seem happy to date.
In my experience, most asshole guys have asshole dads. Things like racism and misogyny are very commonly inherited.
Yeah as a 29F anecdotally trying to date men within my “age range” for a decade was an actual nightmare. You grow up with all these expectations of what dating other adult men will look like, because you see you and your girlfriends growing up, maturing, becoming better with age….
And then you go on dates with men your age and it’s just like…wtf happened? All of these grown men behaving just the way they probably were at 14 years old. No growth. No emotional depth nor intellectual curiosity. I deadass have been uncomfortable on dates with men my own age because they’re stuck acting like an irrational teenager. The final straw for me was an ex boyfriend who decided during the 2020 election to vote third party simply because he thought I was one of the sheeple for “blindly” voting democrat…meanwhile he couldn’t tell you a single thing about the third party candidate’s platform. But he was so enlightened™️ to be “part of the movement that will get third party out in the mainstream” as if the 2020 election wasn’t the most important one of our generation to not f*** around with
I was so utterly turned off and not attracted to men my own age that by 26 I just started exclusively dating older men. Like others have said, there’s still plenty of incel types with older men, but there’s a decent pool of rational headed men too. Obviously I knew why they were interested in someone my age, but hey, it’s a worthwhile trade off to not deal with overly confrontational, emotionally immature men of my own age who want to be contrarians so bad because they’re so fragile that they have to put down the women in their life to feel better about themselves