The Case for an Older Woman (oktrends)
I love the OKCupid blog and the guys who are writing it. Even when they’re revealing really irking things about how gender works in our society, they mean so well.
This article is great. My favorite points (may be exaggerated for drama):
- Guys have a pathological problem with dating older ladies and a bizarre affinity for inappropriately younger women.
- Ladies are quite reasonable about age.
- No you’re biased.
- But seriously, womens’ desirability peaks really young (before they can drink!) and starts dropping off around….well, around my current age.
- Eighteen-year-old girls, by and large, don’t want sex more than about once a week, don’t believe in birth control, don’t get tested regularly, and won’t date you unless you’d like to marry them. Plus they have no confidence, so they’re gonna be high maintenance. (Read: the magazines and the nudie tumblrs are doing you a disservice, fellas.)
- Hey! In Seattle, even the younger ladies are pretty sex-positive (except they don’t like birth control - what!?!).
- The OK Cupid guys seem like sweethearts. I love how they actually take the angle of trying to talk older men into dating women their own age. Also how they argue that ladies don’t get less attractive. I want to hug them.
Also, I just realized that several of the founders were behind thespark.com. Man, remember the old days when we all took 15-page quizzes about when (whether?) we were gonna have sex and how we were gonna die? Those quizzes were way awesomer than this Facebook crap, right?
