You’re only allowed to date people older than you. So a 30 y.o. cannot date a 25 y.o., but a 25 y.o. is allowed to date a 30 y.o.
Hope this clarifies
Happy to help
So… nobody can date anyone?
You can if both people are older than each other
You can easily achieve this because time is relative to speed. Date someone roughly half an hour older than you, then get them to spend 6 months on the Tiangong space station at 28,000km/h. Meanwhile, remain as motionless as possible. Because time passed slower for them, and faster (relatively) for you, you will have aged more than them despite being younger.
Once the ISS is de-orbited in 2030, only the Chinese will be allowed to have sex. Then, the American century of humiliation will truly begin.
Century of humiliation kink
Is there another explanation for american behavior?
If you are involved with them before that, it’s grooming
correct
Thank you for your service
There can be at max 6 month age difference.
They can but at least one party is always a creep.
If you were born on the same say, time zones may need to be involved.
Actually you can’t date at all because your brain isn’t fully developed until [insert age of poster]
You mean he dated ADULTS?!? Scandalous!
Damn these people are really reaching for anything to pin on him aren’t they?
I mean, maybe they’re upset because 24 is a lot older than what most of their favorite creepo capitalist politicians have been caught with.
Did you know his wife is only 28! He’s 34, fucking groomer!
Omg she’s practically an infant wtf is wrong with the left
Do people unironically think dating someone 5 years younger than you, in your 30’s, is problematic??
Yeah
Apparently, for some people, any sort of age gap is considered the same as if you wanted to date a high schooler
Yikes I thought that was a joke. Like being in your 30’s and trying to hit on an 18 year old is creepy but being 40 and dating someone who’s 25? Call me old fashioned but that’s nothing.
I have dim memories of this being the topic I first started recognizing LiberalSocialist from, but I don’t remember the actual take
LiberalSocialist
You’re giving me Hexbear flashbacks. I don’t remember what the posts were, but I remember the name.
I think they were the Power Dynamics poster
Do you disagree?!
FLASHBACKI agree that they were the power dynamics poster
they were just doing what the unions wanted, i don’t see the problem
are you sure? I swear I remember that struggle session being about aerodynamics
I never did decide if they were a bit/troll poster or just a profoundly confused individual
Power dynamics.
The most power imbalanced relationship I have ever been in was with a man who was literally my exact same age (we had the same DOB). He was a millionaire while I was close to homelessness
Damn, did you at least get that bag from that rich boy?
I got all the free weed I could vape
Something tells me that this has to do with the fact that people have begun taking that whole oversimplified “Your brain doesn’t finish developing until you’re 25” pop science factoid at face value, with some people making the take that 25 should be the age of majority, even, with little to no pushback. It definitely reeks of some paternalistic virtue signaling about how “protective” of children these people think they are. The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong with this, too, because the people who say this appear to have a “I’m so smart because I base my view of this off the science!” sort of thought process.
CW - Child Abuse
Bottom line is that if a policy like this were to have been enacted in my past, I would’ve literally died due to how my parents are.
People are so lacking in critical thinking skills that they consider reifying this neuroscientific misconception more important than people’s fucking lives.
And that’s not even me going into all the other troubling complications that something like this would bring.
Something tells me that this has to do with the fact that people have begun taking that whole oversimplified “Your brain doesn’t finish developing until you’re 25” pop science factoid at face value, with some people making the take that 25 should be the age of majority, even, with little to no pushback.
Looks like that, like I said I had seen people getting mad about age gaps like a 25 year old dating a 21 year old and I was like this is a joke??
Some people’s brains never fully develop until… What’s Trump’s age again?
Gottem 💯💯💯
I’ve seen that number at higher than 25, usually it’s conveniently at whatever age the person spouting the bullshit is currently at. Funny how that happens, just a coincidence I’m sure.
Usually those spouting these “protective” takes will also post about how their children refuse to talk to them despite them being literal angels who’ve done nothing wrong ever, and if you look into their post history they’ll be justifying horrific physical abuse and “jokingly” threatening to murder their child’s (usually daughter’s) partner. It’s a control thing.
That would explain it. And like you said now it’s being weaponized to harm trans people, remove voting rights make abortion harder, etc.
Out of curiosity, do you know what’s being simplified or twisted with the whole brain is still developing until you’re 25 factoid?
The study this factoid is based on showed your brain continues to devolop and change until at least 25 (the oldest age they were studying). In reality the brain keeps devoloping past then too.
yes because according to every person on the internet I’ve ever spoken to the microsecond you turn 30 you transform from a capable young person directly into a withered husk with one foot in the grave
Can confirm I am in my 30s and I’m actually dead
I’m in my 40s and have to be revived via juche necromancy every 15 minutes or else my digestive enzymes will turn my body into garum
I’m in my 30’s but I’m Chinese so I look much younger than the white folk my age. Esp since these bleachskins keep going out to “get a tan” and “spend time in direct Australian sunlight”.
Without sunscreen? No wonder they look like that
I always find that shit funny. Then they’re shocked when they see men and women in their 30’s looking youthful and in good shape.
I see it here on Hexbear even, all the time. It’s like in the last 10 years people decided the natural progression of human existence is child > young adult > crypt keeper, with the final stage lasting more than 60% of your lifespan.
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Hell yeah, age gap discourse when his main opponent was a sex pest fucking rocks.
Right! He’s not even a pedophile and he wants a fucking leadership position! It’s absurd, and he should be hanged as a usurper!
He’s not even a pedophile, and he thinks he can lead? Fucking disgusting!
he just turned 34, so 24 wouldn’t even break the “half + 7” rule of thumb for nearly another year
He met his wife on Hinge in 2021 so he had it set to at least 24 when he was 31. She’s 28 now btw which means if he had the age any higher they literally wouldn’t have met, she was 24 when they met.
This is all nonsense and nobody is pushing this as a bad thing in good-faith.
Do people not realise that is completely normal, in fact perfectly average, for the man to be a few years older in most heterosexual couples? Think the average gap is 2-4 years in most countries. Like this is just how life works out for the most part, across cultures and continents. This is how the world works, I have no idea why people are trying to shame perfectly normal human behaviour. The real world is not an eternal middle school, high school or undergraduate university/college, thank God.
I don’t think we should tolerate something because it is normal, we should tolerate it for actually being harmless (and this is harmless). There are countless practices that are “normal” and pointlessly harmful.
My citation is that my beating heart has revealed to me through visions of bodily awareness that there’s an age at which a fully grown adult is capable of telling anyone else in the world to fuck off. At that point it’s simply not my problem if they get into a weird age relationship. To me that number is 27 - so if a 27 year old wanted to date a 79 year old it’s just not my business. It’s a thing nobody need concern themselves with until one of them tries to retaliate or prevent the other from leaving then you might reasonably intervene by anything up to state power to collectively tell them to fuck off.
The point being I like the odds of a mentally and physically sound 24 year old from New York to be at the fuck off threshold 3 years early. “Doesn’t it make Mamdani weird if he wants to be in the weird age relationship?” 1) like you said it doesn’t break the rule of thumb. 1.5) If Mamdani has that same idea for a fuck off threshold of a New Yorker then it’s whatever to me. 2) he did the smart thing and was married by time he went to office where he was capable of having a power imbalance. 3) If we’re talking 30s and mid 20s I’m going to need more than just the age for it to be problematic enough to ping on the radar. It’s a slow day at the slop factory. 4) when it’s
but you can’t quite prove it. 5) ayyyyyy! I’m walkin’ 'ere!
The guy Zohran was running against resigned in disgrace because he faced over a dozed accusations of sexual assault.
And a guy who got shot in the back of a yellow taxi cab by a member of the Gambino Crime Family.
he also lives with 17 cats and i think this is more extraordinary than his brush with death.
There’s being a crazy cat person, and then there’s hoarding cats. It definitely depends on the size of your home and your capacity to care for them, but 17 is certainly not a small number of cats for one person to be responsible for.
They’re actually bodyguards to protect him from the Gambino Crime Family.
I thought Spymaster Mittens was just a silly Crusader Kings joke…
Although considering how often organized crime is referred to as rats and pests, cats might make better protection than some folks would assume!
Well he has all those cats because the scent of a cat can cause a female rat to abort all it’s fetuses! (an actual thing he talked about in an interview about his cats)
he’s so awesome
IIRC he took the sexual assault allegations in stride, it was hiding the number of deaths at senior facilities that made him resign.
To my memory you have it backwards, somehow the nursing home deaths did nothing and then the SA allegations came out and he stepped down
I remember saying at the time “Really? Like, yeah that’s bad, but he killed hundreds to thousands of people!”
Oh really?
either way.
Exactly! He was qualified!
How many does mamdani have!? Does he even know how to make a woman prodoundly uncomfortable? Does he have the stomach for rape?
we don’t know, and he’s going to take office totally untested. How can we possibly trust someone like that?
I half-expected this thread to be a struggle session lol
Just people understanding that daylight savings is still kicking my ass, and I neeeeeed full threads to read
I’m a big fan of daylight savings now that I have to drive to work at 6:30am, like it was really dark for a couple weeks and now I can see again without laserbeam truck headlights blinding me
Trying to walk the fine line of taking advantage of whatever daylight is available - too much time working! Gotta save that garbage for when I don’t want to be out and about
Having sex? Very problematic
The person who said this needs to be bullied. Hard.
Surely that has to be satire though. Can you even view what someones age range is set to?
Yeah I thought of that too. But I’ve never used tinder so I have no idea.
I hate power dynamics discourse. It’s kind of funny how like, nobody will ever date me on account of my being a homeless drug addict—because more than likely the rare fucking person who doesn’t think I’m disgusting will be so concerned about being “problematic.”
CUOMO SLAPPIN’ FANNIES AND KILLIN’ GRANNIES
“When are we gonna talk about how this adult man set his dating range at the lowest as another adult who’s, usually speaking, out of college already for a few years years and nowhere near being a minor???” ffs I get being wary of certain age gaps but bro set it as his lowest too not like a specific requirement that a woman had to be 24 either. This “under 25” pop science shit needs to die they’re just giving more power to transphobes and the like who use it to ban trans healthcare for under 25s and don’t even connect the dots, same with abortion. Hell some of these morons even want it to be the age of majority and voting age. We need to have scientific education everywhere starting in like middle school istg.
Is this all because of that “your brain isn’t fully formed till your 25” nonsense?
Yes. It has taken a vast part of my generation (gen z) by storm, at least the more chronically online ones. It’s gotten bad fr.
I’m at the edge of gen-z and I do kinda participate, but only when it’s clear there’s some sort of power dynamic involved. Like a rich 45+ year old guy going for broke girls right out of college. Even then if the girl made that decision and had control of the situation it’s ultimately their decision…
Yeah, hence why I said there are some to be wary off but in this case it’s not an issue, and the whole snowball effect of some people now treating all adults under 25 as if they’re still children.
Yeah, SciShow did a video debunking this actually!
Oh no an adult dating other adults, what a crime.
How sick it is to diddle a 25yo person! No pass. The whole political system would crumble if the gift of paedophilia wouldn’t oil it’s cogs!
