:cereal2: One way ticket to Beijing, please
There is a serious and very fucked issue in many Asian countries with viewing older women (like 25+) who are unmarried as being used up or too old. It's super weird. Anything to counteract this is good imo.
Children still play a card game called "Old Maid."
Somehow this is allowed.
At least with youngish people I know (mid 20s to 30s) in China and Japan, this is more of a thing you hear from your parents or grand parents that you roll your eyes at and disregard.
I think these days parents are overall more worried about their children staying single forever than marrying someone who's arbitrarily "too old".
that male surplus in China sure is worrying, im sure thats part of what is driving the older generations to rethink their perceptions
They need 100 dramas about gay dudes falling in love and being accepted by their community, then
China: makes one (1) generic tv show
Western media: THEY ARE BRAINWASHING THE POPULATION, THEY ARE MAKING OLDER WOMAN ATRACTIVE
It doesn't seem like they're saying that, though. This looks more like a fluff news piece just saying "isn't this kinda neat".
He might be a neoliberal goon, but in this one very specific way, he is a victim.
I feel super guilty for saying this, but I had a gf in my twenties who was 4 years older than me, and it helped me mature a lot.
That said, younger male comrades, don't fetishize or weirdly seek out older women pls. (not that I'm blaming anyone)
I don't want to normalise dating older women to farm experience.
Edit: Also I am grateful that I'm a decent human being because of her, even though we broke up.
My wife is nearly 12 full hours older than me, sometimes I worry about the power dynamics I may not be mature enough to understand
I had a girlfriend who was 7 years older than me. If the roles were reversed it would've been normal still lol
I really don't understand why it works so well, because it basically nails the normal/creepy line when it comes to age gaps.
I married a girl who's 3 years older than me in my twenties.
Still married to her, even.
She's also Asian, and I'll recognize that our aging patterns are like:
1-18: looks approximately equal to our age
19-50+: Looks early to mid 20s-ish
Somewhere after 50: old
Oh no, fails the "half your age plus seven" rule by one year!
This is like in the OC how Seth and Ryan were both visibly older than Seth's aunt who is supposed to be only a couple of years younger than Seth's mom.
The one bugging me is in Picard, where Jack Crusher (23) is played by an actor who's 34, and looks 40-ish.
There's no reliable way to tell people's age by looking at them. Dude could be 18 and she could be 43. The the current state of cosmetic medicine? Just give up. I know people who are handing out botox at parties these days. Shit's wild.
I wonder how well Resident Evil Village sold in China...
