this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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I don't really like the age gap discourse. I think it is attempting to use identity politics to explain structural peobelms. Why is an age gap bad? Because cis het relationships are inherently bad and without sufficient experience to navigate them younger partners are likely to be hurt? Or because they are unlikely to lead to a successful marriage and kids? That's awfully partirarchy pilled. Let's imagine the converse. Which is better a boomer? Or a boomer that has stayed socially adaptable enough to be able to prosocially enguage with the younger generations? I get you don't want boomers being predatory in other spaces but that is a failure to develop the tools to exclude predatory people. Something about this discourse and skill based match making discourse is kicking around in my head and ai haven't figured out a dialectic answer to all this.
True, but then the odds of that in the wild are low no? So in this way we are using age gap as a proxy for this patriarchal instinct and doing no work to address the underlying issue. Yeah?
I misread your comment hence why I deleted, my bad
Oh, sorry. It was a good point about me being reductive so I dig it though