• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
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    1 day ago

    I don’t understand this world anymore.

    People give a shit about someone’s age? People live in this reality where the passage of time gets measured, and then what? Don’t tell me, it’s gonna be some fkd up sexuality thing again…

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      I went on a date recently where she checked that I knew she was 3-4 years older than me (both in our thirties)

      like, yeah, it says that in your profile. what about it? it was a little bit weird. like, ok good to check, but still a tiny bit strange because of how concerned she seemed to be that I knew

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        17 hours ago

        My mom was 5 years older than my dad. She was so ashamed of it that she told all her in-laws that her birthday was the same year as his, and therefore she was 6 months older. We celebrated all her milestone birthdays 5 years early with them because she was raised to believe her value was tied to her age.

        To this day, her sisters will not tell me their age and I have no clue how old my aunts are. When a culture tells you that getting older makes you irrelevant, it breeds odd behaviour like that.

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        it’s a sad thing really, people feel the need to disclose “flaws” like that because they rejected for them before (or think they would be rejected) whilst it’s just… bro 3-4 years of a difference stops mattering right around when you turn 25

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      It’s always been the Epstein class complaining there aren’t enough victims to grape. They want more kids, women are too old etc etc.

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      right wing men were definitely in the replies defending Sydney Sweeney cause they love her boobs and male centered persona while calling women over 25 hags and telling them to stay in the kitchen, & obviously calling the OP an ugly cunt

      great bait

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          There’s a dated idea in Japan that a woman over 25 is past her prime age for getting married, which was called “Christmas cake” because it’s like the leftovers from the 25th (they “traditionally” eat cake for xmas in Japan).

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        Over 25 is a hag? what the actual fuck. The manospehere is so delusional, and those delusions come from podcasts and media. The absolute lack of critical thinking by men these days is baffling and terrifying. They see the world only as someone else has painted it for them, and don’t have an independent thought in their skulls.

        Other people also suffer from this, but it’s almost rabid in nature amongst men.

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          Nobody in real life see’s shit this way its just engagement boosts rage bait like this

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          It’s old enough that most can see through them, ergo it’s an age after which women must be insulted by them and deemed undesirable, hence we’re hags.

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    24 hours ago

    Yeah. Really fighting against misogyny. Definitely not promoting pedophilia and sexualization of children.