I have never seen anyone on the Internet claim to look older than they actually are. But there seem to be legions of people who are 45 but look like they’re 12.

I agree, to an extent, that these stories are so popular (and this particular chart has been floating around for at least four or five years now) because they call to near-universal anxieties in women. But I don’t think what you’re seeing here is women “mocking the men at issue.” Women are scared of feeling irrelevant…

Thanks, that’s actually a really sweet and encouraging thing to hear. I recently turned 25 and just started to hear stuff like that earlier this year (I come from a conservative immigrant background) and it’s really starting to mess with me. It’s nice to get other perspectives.

Yeah...and it’s not like dating a younger woman is like pressing a button. Especially since 20-25 year old women (and most women older than that as well) get hundreds of messages a week, most of them not from men old enough to be their dads. Why do men’s ideal preferences matter so much anyway?

Yeah, can you imagine dating a 55-year old? I went on dates with men in their early 30s sometimes when I was 22 or 23 and sometimes, even then, the age difference was noticeable because they had been operating in the adult world for so much longer than I had and we had really different touchstones/cultural memories. I…

I’ve had an OkC profile on and off since I was 21 and I’m 25 now and I haven’t really noticed getting any fewer messages now than I did then. And from older female friends, I haven’t heard of any dramatic drop-off at 26 or 27 either.

Yeah, this whole thing is going to get him into MIT for sure. Hopefully, that will outweigh the trauma of being arrested and escorted out of school in handcuffs.

Yeah, they used to evacuate our school if someone left a vague, anonymous bomb threat in the bathroom. One week, we were evacuated every day at lunch because some idiot kid had figured out that it was a great way to get out of school for a few hours. If they had actually believed that this kid had an actual ticking…

My brother married a woman from South India and I saw this part of the ceremony in action. I love Indian weddings so much but I’ve never seen anything that makes marriage seem like so much like a transaction. Why would anyone want to start their married life that way?

You feel like you’re too old to have children at 27? When on earth are you supposed to have them? 15?

And it should certainly include the Americans who have been murdered in racist hate violence post-9/11 for their appearance and clothing, like Balbir Singh Sodhi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of…

Are there that many male criminal masterminds out there? I didn’t know the Oscars were trying to do a perfect demographic representation of America’s occupational landscape.

I am a 95-pound woman who has sex with men who typically weigh at least 50 pounds more than me, sometimes much more than that. How the fuck do you think women, who are typically significantly thinner than men, handle the “struggle to breathe’? And no, my body has not yet broken from men literally twice my size being…

100 pounds at 5’1’’ is on the very low end of normal. It’s not necessarily an ideal weight and it’s certainly not what someone would “generally weigh” at 5’1’’ in America in 2015. Those are my measurements give or take a few pounds and I’ve always been read by people as “skinny” and wear a size 0.

I used to not like her when she was younger and seemed to embody this whole retrograde, “princesses and knights in shining armor,” completely sexless but romance-obsessed brand of femininity but the 1989 era has completely changed my view of her. If nothing else, I think she has done a remarkable job of completely…

God, just shut up. Nothing you say is interesting or useful or enlightening to anyone.

Well, when you’re 20, you’re a fourth of the way through. And when you’re 15, you’re a fifth of the way through.

Did you read the quote at all before immediately firing up the knee-jerk outrage?

Finding out taylor schilling was queer made me so happy.

Haha, it was not an intentional omission. I think the most in-character thing Rupert has done is get overshadowed by the others.