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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2020-07-22 05:02 pm

[ SECRET POST #4947 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4947 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2020-07-23 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Funny how different people's experiences can be. On one hand, well my first love was probably a much older guy (idk, we met online; luckily he wasn't a creep and politely rejected me before I could even try) and 3 out of 8 female friends I grew up with dated for years older (10+y) men beginning in their teens/early twenties. On the other hand, I've never fantasized with age gap relationships, I hated Twilight and shoujo/yaoi manga with such tropes and to this day I don't enjoy those kinds of works, don't like interacting with minors online and am known for being "prudish" about it. Wonder if it's because it was close to my reality so I could always see its shortcomings but I never got the appeal and am vocal about being "against" it in media, though obviously I don't write such an autobiography whenever I say it.

To me there's this Tumblr(?) culture of how nice it is to have a "sugar daddy", but in my experience reality is much more often unfulfilled middle-aged men who've already learned to be a bit more sensitive (or less stubborn...) than the average teen guy think they're "scoring" by taking some ok-looking young girl's virginity, who in turn may be an outcast among peers and feels glad for being treated nicely for once. Everything in this logic sucks: the notion that dating a young woman is "scoring", the notion that dating a virgin is "scoring", the idea that's sold that "women are intrinsically more mature and therefore should date older men (who have got money hooray!)", ok-looking girl being treated badly by guy her age because the world is misogynistic and being "sensitive" is being "feminine" and therefore "weaker" and so on. This is why, despite obviously not lashing out against my friends or my younger self for it, I will be vocal about not being supportive of such media as it keeps these ideas alive in prime 2020.