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if u r trans no matter what ur agab and ur gender may be there is a good chance u will have a voice in ur head telling u that u need to lose weight to pass and to have people take u seriously . that is the voice of the DEVIL do NOT LISTEN TO IT !!!!
I wish age gap discourse hadn’t spiraled the way it has because I want there to be a safe space to say “Men in their 40s who date 25 year olds aren’t predators, they’re just fucking losers”
… honey you just described a predator LOL
No, I said what I said. But thank you for providing an example of how this topic has become insufferable on the internet.
i am honestly burningly curious about how a 40 year old man who fucks around with college grads is not a predator
“College grad” is not a developmental stage, nor is it what I would describe a 25 year old as. I was 4 years out of college at 25. My mother had two children at 25. You can be a fucking congressman at 25.
There’s a difference between a man who is immature and buys into misogynistic views of beauty and aging and one who is a predator. Also, many actual predators? Not losers and able to move through society pretty freely being seen as cool and the ideal, so conflating the two isn’t helpful.
This is going to be my final response to any attempt at discourse. You’re welcome to continue amongst yourselves.
also sometimes a 40 year old and a 25 year old just weirdly find each and it’s a perfectly normal relationship - like all human relationships are complex and situational, it’s so rarely an either/or thing let alone just one thing only
if a 40 year old dude only dates 25 year olds, DiCaprio style or something adjacent to it, then yeah he’s a loser
if a 40 year old dude meets a 25 year old through social event or friends or whatever and they happen to hit it off and make a go of it, and this isn’t some sort of reoccurring pattern for the guy, that’s just a relationship with an age difference
being predatory means something specific, and man I agree w/ OP and really wish people just stopped ascribing it to any and all relationship dynamics they personally might not like
predator and groomer - two words that need to go up on the “can’t use till you learn their meaning” shelf
I continue to find it utterly bizarre that tumblr of all places - a space packed to the gills with people who claim to have lost most of their 20s to mental illness/chronic pain/wage slavery/destitution pursuant to being kicked out and disowned by their homo-/transphobic parents - is so full of people willing to go to bat for the idea that everyone follows the same life and career path such that a 40 year old and a 25 year old couldn’t possibly have anything in common, and the former is necessarily going to be so much more socially and economically powerful than the latter that any romance/sex between them is basically tantamount to rape.
Arnold Schwarznegger’s mpreg movie is something that as kids we just kinda took at face value, but in retrospect, looking back at it as an adult it sure gives you some pause
You know. The movie where Danny DeVito helps Arnold get pregnant
‘fraid the onus of googling “arnold schwarznegger mpreg movie” falls on you, chief
Op and the people who google this masterpiece for the first time
Aren’t they related too? I’m sure that’s a plot point.
No, that was a different movie, where Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarznegger were twins
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