this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
281 points (93.8% liked)

Asklemmy

43858 readers
1815 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Context, I'm 30 now and i will find women my age and up attractive, but 15 years ago a 35 year old women would never have been attractive to me.

As I've aged younger women are less and less attractive (thankfully)

But when I'm 60 will 60 year old women be attractive to me?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] thethirdobject@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I understand where you're coming from, but you're expressing your taste and values in a very dismissive way

[โ€“] minnieo@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

i dont get how calling someone that age dating a teen 'yuck' is dismissive lol

[โ€“] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

They're both consenting adults, and it's just sex.

It's yuck in the same way a teen might say old people (30+ yos) having sex are yuck.

But there's nothing inherently wrong about it, your views are just judgemental. May also just be a cultural thing to be fair, or as societies attitude towards sex become more open, older views may still just be very conservative.

[โ€“] thethirdobject@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's not what you said, you don't get to lecture me by pretending you said something else.

Anything illegal deserves more yuck than I can count, but expressing your personal taste towards things that are legal and socially accepted (while frown upon) by dismissing a behaviour that you personslly disagree with is... dismissive.

[โ€“] minnieo@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

huh? it is literally exactly for word what i said, so what are you talking about??

"most hopefully they weren't irresponsible enough to date a teen, that'd be just as yuck no matter the gender"

also, how am i lecturing you?? i dont even know you or anything about you. you replied to me calling my opinion dismissive and i disagreed, point out the lecturing. and anyway, why is there an issue with how i choose to express my opinion on something controversial, or anything in that matter? you find it dismissive that i think middle aged people dating legal teenagers is gross, okay, why should i care that how i expressed it is apparently dismissive??