#AGEISJUSTANUMBER

[chattingflirting]

Charming older womant and a handsome guy sharing a tender and romantic moment

[hyperlexichypatia]

I know I keep posting about this, and it's absolutely becoming my Thing, but I keep getting into arguments about it, and I have to keep saying: It just KEEPS being absolutely BONKERS to me that "raise the age of majority"/"young adults should be considered children" is considered a QUEER FRIENDLY position in QUEER circles. Not only because denying agency to queer youth is both a current and historical queerphobic argument, but also, because queer youth are disproportionately likely to be abused, rejected, or estranged by their families of origin, and thus, to be materially harmed, not only by the egregiously dehumanizing status of minorhood until they're 18, but also, later as young adults, by financial policies that won't let them, for example, apply for aid or sign leases without their parents. And for people who profess to be so worried about young adults getting into abusive or exploitative relationships with older partners, there is a shocking lack of awareness that a leading cause of such relationships (that are abusive/exploitative and also involve age difference; I'm not accepting the premise that all age-difference relationships are abusive/exploitative) is such relationships being the only way young people can escape the control of their parents. I could understand the naivete of this position if it were held by people with unusually accepting and supportive parents, people who don't understand that such parents aren't the norm, but no, people will straight out say "My parents were/are abusive/estranged, and also, I shouldn't have been considered a legal adult until I was 24." Some of them try to square this circle with "18-20something people should be considered children, but children should have more rights than they currently have," yet without seeming to realize the absolute sub-basement level of rights that minors currently have. I saw one person espousing this position give the example that underage teens "Can work, go to the store, and date other teens" within limits -- but neglected to mention that the unspoken clause in this is "if their parents let them." "I was emotionally immature when I was 22." Friend, let me stop you right there. Let's set aside the problems with the social construction of "emotional (im)maturity" and how it relates to classism and capitalism -- if that's true, do you not realize that your "emotional immaturity" was/is a direct result of being developmentally inappropriately controlled? If you're "emotionally immature" at 22, it's because you're just beginning the individuation process you should've been doing 5-10 years prior.

[labinfosblog]

Charming granny in a mini skirt

[disasterink-fic]

Fast Times // Girl Meets World - Disaster Ink - Wattpad Questionable Morals (Part 1) -- Chapter 17/32 Rating: Mature

Maya’s eyes were wide and filled with lust. She squeezed her legs together, squirming in her seat as she imagined the sound and the sting of the wood slapping her bare skin. Her body was on fire for this man, and she was ready to march into his office that second and let him have her. Jon stood in front of her desk when the room was finally empty. “You are going to get me into trouble, young lady.”

[luminofilmsofficial]

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A dominance of male Directors who get the vast majority of the Hollywood Films to run. Who then go on to win 90% of the major awards.

Industry press releases praising action led, male dominated films. Men get 67% of all words spoken in films.

The lack of mature women in nuanced roles and as the love interest is shocking.

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[ladydreamx-blog]

Charming granny 60+

[ladywebcam]

Nice Granny

[echoesofphilip]

[sahanapod]

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[joanninkshop]

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[chattingflirting]

Pudgy mature woman with a big ass is in the bathroom with the door open.

[hyperlexichypatia]

Having children and going to college are two life activities done by people within an incredibly wide age range, so it’s completely bonkers that either one is considered an age marker.

And by “bonkers” I mean ageist, classist, and eugenicist.

There is a wide range of ages at which people go to college (many people never do, by choice or by circumstance, which is fine). There is a wide range of ages at which people have children (many people never do, by choice or by circumstance, which is fine). They don’t have to be done in any particular time, or in any particular order, or at all. They should both be far more affordable than they currently are, ideally free, but that’s another day’s post. 

Half of college students in the U.S. are over age 25, and 23% are parents. When people refer to college students as “children,” I always correct them on both points – young adults are not children, and also, most college students are not young adults. The notion that all college students are single, childless young adults aged 18-23, who are living essentially an extension of their K-12 schooling controlled by their parents, is a cultural norm of only a minority subculture of people in the U.S., one with… more financial resources than average. I’m reluctant to use the word “privilege,” because I don’t believe being controlled by one’s parents really is a privilege, but it’s certainly a bourgeois class norm. 

Similarly, the cultural norm that people can only start having children when they’re completely finished with schooling, in their late 20s at the earliest, and married or partnered, is not at all reflective of the reality of many people’s reproductive choices. 

Several years ago, I briefly did some freelance writing for a magazine aimed at college students, and in one article, I used a hypothetical example involving "babysitting your friend's kids." My editor returned it with a note that a college student wouldn't have friends with kids. Not even that a college student wouldn't have kids -- already a false premise -- but that a college student wouldn't have friends with kids. This has stuck in my mind for years as an example of how absolutely out-of-touch people in this narrow subculture are about the educational and reproductive choices of others.

There are material consequences of the erasure of student parents, too, like a serious lack of accessible childcare for students' children.

“What could a 20 year old and a 35 year old possibly have in common?? One is still in college, and the other might have kids already!” 

Actually, they might both be in college. 

Or maybe neither is.

They might have met in the same college class. 

They might both have kids. 

Or maybe neither does.

Maybe the 20 year old already has one or more kids, and the 35 year old has none. 

Maybe they each have a baby, and they met in the same parent group and hang out at playdates. 

Maybe the 35 year old is pregnant with xyr first baby and asking advice from the 20 year old who’s pregnant with her third. 

Maybe the 35 year old left school when he had his first kid, and now he and his now-17-year-old are starting college at the same time (I know there’s at least one movie with this premise). 

Or, maybe, the 20 year old is a childless college student, and the 35 year old is a college graduate with kids, and they could still have plenty in common, because age, educational situation, and family arrangement aren’t the sum total of who a person is. 

One of my mom’s longest-lasting friends of several decades was someone she met when they were 44 and 18, respectively, with a 3-year-old and 1-year-old kid, respectively, living in student housing. This is not as unusual a situation as people think it is. Fortunately, this happened before the brain maturity myth had taken hold, so no one accused my mom of "grooming" or being "predatory" or "emotionally inappropriate behavior" towards her younger friend, even if she was occasionally mistaken for her friend's mother.

Age diversity and prevalence of student parents are even more widespread at community colleges and all-online college programs (for obvious reasons, as those types of programs often have more flexible scheduling). In the online college program I'm doing now, my classmates include 20-year-old parents, 50-year-old grandparents, childfree 40-year-olds, and pretty much every combination of age and family type possible.

I'm so glad the real world doesn't conform to the ridiculous notion of "life stages."

[eklavya-bhardwaj]

Okay, I just saw it but here goes nothing, I'm one of those people who would just be happy and feel like it's a freakin holiday when Eminem drops anything, JUST anything, and again you wouldn't know until after he has dropped it, there is no freakin announcement or head up NOTHING AT ALL!! but that's not the thing I wanted to talk about, that thing that I wanted to talk about is that, how I just realized, if we would see Eminem's youtube channel about 5 years ago in 2019or even before that, the man he was doing numbers he was always top of the chart because fans almost CRAVE for his music, the HUNGER and EXITEMENT and the HYPE is real people, it's freakin real, but he was always lowkey on the subscribers, and other artist were doing good on all front, even the subscribers, so I have had a lot of fights, especially with taylor swift fans lol (ifykyk) but NOW... No, he got above all, he is on 4th with ALMOST 60MIL I MEANNN WTF!! I mean we have seen artists gain that many in a day and then drop to half in the next 5 or some years... but this guy is freakin 50+ STILL consistent, his music must finally make sense to most people now Ohh man, this realization just made my morning cuz I LOVE Eminem I owe most achievements of my life to this guy's songs. STAN FOR LIFE!! here is the list 1) BlackPink with 92.5 million subs (yeah Ik lol) even I love them 2) BTS with 77.2 million subs, I still think they are overrated 3) Justin Beiber has 72.4 million subs, I don't even need to make a comment on this one. now these are the people who have been on the hype ever since they came out, it's just genre... it relates to everyone listening but then COMES

4) EMINEM 58.5 million subs now when I say that rap music is just an acquired taste, believe me, it is, and the one that Eminem got, man YES not everyone can relate to or enjoy it, I DO, from 7 in the morning to 8 in the evening when I get back home he is what goes on my Spotify and for him to be this consistent over the years its just an achievement in itself mann Im just soo happy 👻 here are some more on the list 5) Marshmello (56.8M) 6)Taylor Swift with 55.9 million subs (still reminds me of a certain time in my life, I tag that time with innocence) 7) Ed Sheeran (54M) another stan being successful with BANGER music 8) Ariana Grande (53.2M) 9) J Balvin (34.2M) 10) Karol G (33.9M)

now call me childish to compare them all, but yeah It made me happy so I did my research lol, Anyway... let's see how this list changes in the coming time... idk about them, IM HYPED

[flannelgo]

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[the-girl-not-next-door]

I am just a simple woman, wanting to wear a pretty dress, without being asked if it is age-appropriate.