god bless all the idiot early-20s girls dating mid-30s guys who post on /r/relationships, AITA, etc. kinda feel bad for any non-scumbag 36-year-old guy dating a 22-year-old (conceivably must exist) because nobody believes that you're a good dude lol
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly
This age gap is totally normal if you hadn't had much previous luck with women (for whatever reason) but want 5+ kids, imo
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Replying to @orthonormalist @sonyasupposedly
Depends on the age and maturity of the younger. 40 and 28 isn’t so weird. 22? Yeah. Though in my experience they often both know what they are getting into.
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Replying to @ElamBend @orthonormalist
concur except for this part: > they often both know what they are getting into. people in their early 20s rarely know what they're getting into simply because they haven't been adults long enough
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all societies have a solution to "lack of direct knowledge means no knowledge" (the problem of animals) the solution is cultural knowledge / norms if people in their early 20s do not know utterly fucking basic facts about reality, it's because they choose not to listen
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> if people in their early 20s do not know utterly fucking basic facts about reality, it's because they choose not to listen I don't think it's that simple to "choose" to understand something that you don't understand
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yeah, valid but in the same way that we don't expect 9 year olds to understand why they are being drilled on the times table, we just expect them to do it, I think it's reasonable to expect 19 year olds to obey time-tested norms ("no, you're REALLY NOT all that different and ...
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what kind of "expect" are we talking about, normative or predictive?
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excellent clarification question, btw !
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