He met his wife on Hinge in 2021 so he had it set to at least 24 when he was 31. She’s 28 now btw which means if he had the age any higher they literally wouldn’t have met, she was 24 when they met.
This is all nonsense and nobody is pushing this as a bad thing in good-faith.
Do people not realise that is completely normal, in fact perfectly average, for the man to be a few years older in most heterosexual couples? Think the average gap is 2-4 years in most countries. Like this is just how life works out for the most part, across cultures and continents. This is how the world works, I have no idea why people are trying to shame perfectly normal human behaviour. The real world is not an eternal middle school, high school or undergraduate university/college, thank God.
I don’t think we should tolerate something because it is normal, we should tolerate it for actually being harmless (and this is harmless). There are countless practices that are “normal” and pointlessly harmful.
My citation is that my beating heart has revealed to me through visions of bodily awareness that there’s an age at which a fully grown adult is capable of telling anyone else in the world to fuck off. At that point it’s simply not my problem if they get into a weird age relationship. To me that number is 27 - so if a 27 year old wanted to date a 79 year old it’s just not my business. It’s a thing nobody need concern themselves with until one of them tries to retaliate or prevent the other from leaving then you might reasonably intervene by anything up to state power to collectively tell them to fuck off.
The point being I like the odds of a mentally and physically sound 24 year old from New York to be at the fuck off threshold 3 years early. “Doesn’t it make Mamdani weird if he wants to be in the weird age relationship?” 1) like you said it doesn’t break the rule of thumb. 1.5) If Mamdani has that same idea for a fuck off threshold of a New Yorker then it’s whatever to me. 2) he did the smart thing and was married by time he went to office where he was capable of having a power imbalance. 3) If we’re talking 30s and mid 20s I’m going to need more than just the age for it to be problematic enough to ping on the radar. It’s a slow day at the slop factory. 4) when it’s but you can’t quite prove it. 5) ayyyyyy! I’m walkin’ 'ere!
he just turned 34, so 24 wouldn’t even break the “half + 7” rule of thumb for nearly another year
He met his wife on Hinge in 2021 so he had it set to at least 24 when he was 31. She’s 28 now btw which means if he had the age any higher they literally wouldn’t have met, she was 24 when they met.
This is all nonsense and nobody is pushing this as a bad thing in good-faith.
Do people not realise that is completely normal, in fact perfectly average, for the man to be a few years older in most heterosexual couples? Think the average gap is 2-4 years in most countries. Like this is just how life works out for the most part, across cultures and continents. This is how the world works, I have no idea why people are trying to shame perfectly normal human behaviour. The real world is not an eternal middle school, high school or undergraduate university/college, thank God.
I don’t think we should tolerate something because it is normal, we should tolerate it for actually being harmless (and this is harmless). There are countless practices that are “normal” and pointlessly harmful.
My citation is that my beating heart has revealed to me through visions of bodily awareness that there’s an age at which a fully grown adult is capable of telling anyone else in the world to fuck off. At that point it’s simply not my problem if they get into a weird age relationship. To me that number is 27 - so if a 27 year old wanted to date a 79 year old it’s just not my business. It’s a thing nobody need concern themselves with until one of them tries to retaliate or prevent the other from leaving then you might reasonably intervene by anything up to state power to collectively tell them to fuck off.
The point being I like the odds of a mentally and physically sound 24 year old from New York to be at the fuck off threshold 3 years early. “Doesn’t it make Mamdani weird if he wants to be in the weird age relationship?” 1) like you said it doesn’t break the rule of thumb. 1.5) If Mamdani has that same idea for a fuck off threshold of a New Yorker then it’s whatever to me. 2) he did the smart thing and was married by time he went to office where he was capable of having a power imbalance. 3) If we’re talking 30s and mid 20s I’m going to need more than just the age for it to be problematic enough to ping on the radar. It’s a slow day at the slop factory. 4) when it’s
but you can’t quite prove it. 5) ayyyyyy! I’m walkin’ 'ere!