• stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    I’m calling him creepy for not questioning his own decisions. “Why am I dating someone who could be my daughter? Shouldn’t I be with someone my age?” Instead of “Oh you’re a model and just turned 18? That’s perfect!”

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      Maybe, instead of not asking those questions, he answers them in a way that you do not agree with? Maybe even based on factors that you overlook?

      I’m not quite as old as Leo but that frontal cortex thing is a very hard cutoff. You seem to be very focussed on the “18” thing, that’s not how human development and attraction works. According to the chart he has not dated an 18yold since he was 26, and hasn’t shied away from 24yolds.

      And, yes, he doesn’t want to found a family, doesn’t seem to want anything really long-term, at least not yet. Not for me to judge.

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        According to the chart he has not dated an 18yold since he was 26

        ok change 18 to 20, same argument

        don’t tell me there aren’t any single 40yo women interested in him lol

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          ok change 18 to 20, same argument

          Not really, the one number at least implies “I don’t want to go to prison”, the other is “these are too young for me”. Anyway:

          don’t tell me there aren’t any single 40yo women interested in him lol

          How many of those 40yolds are jealous, and what what kind of social narrative could they be pushing to make him stop dating that young. Also, how many of them would themselves have dated him with a 30 year age gap, given the opportunity.

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            I’d say 18 or 20 doesn’t make a big difference when you’re 50, but ok I agree that it seems like 20 is the lower limit. So I guess I was wrong and he does have a moral standard… Ok my bad. He’s still a creep though.

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      And this notion that you should date only people your age where does it come from? It seems a completely arbitrary moral claim to me.

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        common sense? would you date a 20yo girl in your fifties? her dad might be younger than you are. how is this arbitrary?

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          I would or wouldn’t do lots of things that I accept others might do. My morality is not universal. I leave this kind of thinking to religion.