hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6d ago
Women are, literally, fertile for three decades on average, and tend to be healthier towards the earlier end of that range(granted, largely for different reasons).
hydroacetylene
6d ago
I read him as saying he was in his forties and dating a 20 something woman, not a teenager.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
While ‘power dynamics’ are another example of Marxist fan-fiction as theory, age gaps do correlate quite strongly with patriarchy- but the causation probably runs the other way.
Imagine you are a peninsular Arab man. You love your daughter, but you are a man of your culture, and you know that she needs to marry and will then be at the mercy of her husband. Don't you want to make sure it’s a known quantity? Mathematically that’s going to push older. Older husbands that are less likely to change is a sensible risk minimizing strategy when you don’t have a backup plan.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
I mean, for the belichick example it seems worth noting that she’s not just younger than him- hes old enough to be her grandfather. Normies don’t care about much smaller age gaps thé internet freaks out about.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
No it’s a totally different person and this isn’t his hobby horse.
It seems like in real life thé people who get very upset about age gap relationships are mostly young, not old. There’s obvious reasons- if you don’t like it, it affects you personally, which is a different thing.
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