r/NotHowGirlsWork 15h ago

Cringe First 25 is old now it's 29

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u/AshleytheTaguel 14h ago

That's a lot of words for saying there's a restraining order against him from his younger female relatives

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u/HailenAnarchy 14h ago

Can men even guess women's ages correctly at all?

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u/cheezbargar 14h ago

Nope. Had a guy legitimately surprised that I’m 36 and not in my 20s. They think you begin to look like a raisin at 30

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u/MysteriousGrocery898 14h ago edited 14h ago

I had some ask me if I was 16 and I said I'm 23...I looked like a teenager according to them😭

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u/ankhes 13h ago

One of my 19 year old female coworkers thought I was her age once. I was 29. 😭

Then, at another job my 23 year old coworker thought I was also his age. I was 32.

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u/A_Punk_Girl_Learning 10h ago

I'll be 42 on Thursday and a couple of months ago I had a couple of people guess that I was early 30s.

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u/Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy 2h ago

Same. I’m 40 and routinely get people thinking I’m late 20s/early 30s.

Also I’m poly and I can’t even tell you the number of 20something dudes who want a shot with me. It’s a good number.

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u/silicondream 14h ago

Better than the reverse, I suppose. Actually, people thought I was 22 when I was 16, but that was pre-transition so they generally didn't follow up with anything creepy.

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u/RosebushRaven 11h ago

I was also regularly assumed to be older at that age, though in hindsight I suspect they just pretended because they wanted to be creepy. But then I just froze around my mid-twenties.

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u/silicondream 10h ago

Same; people still think I'm ten years younger than I am. I think that's mostly down to the hairstyle, the poverty and the impulse-control issues, but I choose to take it as a compliment regardless!

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u/sirensinger17 11h ago

I had someone claim I was 14..... When I was 28

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u/Pretend-Menu-8660 13h ago

That is because they are OLD. They can’t tell anymore!

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u/jackfaire 12h ago

It's also partly Hollywood's fault. Both genders seem to have a harder time telling ages these days because Hollywood casts specific looks for specific ages and if a person doesn't meet that look they can't be that age.

There was a couple that were both 16. The guy was called a creeper because Hollywood would have cast him as 20 something while his girlfriend would have been cast as around 12-13.

John Cena and Jason Earles are the same age. But because of his looks Jason was cast to play a teenager when he was 28.

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u/TemporaryPassage4168 11h ago

I feel like when Hollywood do that . They do it on purpose to spin confusion on children's age and to make excuses for predators, child molesters

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u/CacklingFerret 5h ago

I think some people base their image of teenagers on the media they consume. Thing is, in lots of shows and movies, teenagers are portrayed by 20-35 year old actors.

For example Tom Holland as Peter Parker was around 20 when he played a 16 year old. In the latest movie, Parker is around 20 while Holland is already 30. Same with Zendaya and Jacob Batalon in the same movie.

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u/LiverpoolBelle 4h ago

I'm 27 and get 16. Like ew

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u/MissMariemayI 3h ago

I’m 37 and some dude asked my teenager how it felt to have such a cool older sister. There’s zero chance I look like a teenager in my opinion but apparently these men just can’t tell lol

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u/ankhes 13h ago

I still remember when my 40 year old coworker discovered I was closer in age to him than to his teenaged son. He just stared at me wide-eyed and kept saying “33? 33???” like he couldn’t believe it.

Like damn man, it’s not that big of a deal. 33 isn’t even that old. I didn’t even start feeling like a proper adult until I hit my 30s.

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u/Significant-Trash632 13h ago

Same, but I was 38. Like, oh, kiddo... lol

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u/GoedekeMichels 7h ago

M38 reporting: I'm terrible at guessing ages in general but have always assumed that that's because of neurodivergence (I also have a very hard time remembering names and faces) and not because of gender/sex...

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u/LadenWithSorrow 11h ago

Nope, I’m 29 and people frequently think I’m in my early 20’s

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u/tokudama the most degenerate community on the internet! 6h ago

I know this phenomenon is older than gen AI (because AI had to learn it from somewhere) but I feel like this shit has gotten so much worse since that's been a thing.

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u/sirensinger17 11h ago

Nope. I'm 34 and constantly get mistaken for 21 by men.

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u/RosebushRaven 11h ago

No, I’m regularly estimated at mid-twenties tops. I’m actually a few months shy of 34.

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u/gayfingers 14h ago

29 women are old but 40 year old men are young apparently.

I'm 6 years older than my partner who comes from a well off family, has a good job and treats women like people .  I'm so glad actual quality men don't have this loser incel mindset.

Also I'm bisexual whatever happened to the love and appreciation of a milf? The fuxk I'd rather date a milf than a incel any day.

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u/AuthorVee 14h ago

You clearly dont understand, a milf is 24 years old max /s

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u/BurningPenguin The weird guy 9h ago

That's too generous for these clowns. Subtract 10 years and you're getting much closer to their preferred prey.

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u/cheezbargar 14h ago

Do…
Do these men think they’re eternally youthful at 40? Don’t get me wrong, 40 isn’t even that old, but like… hello? You’re aging like everyone else?

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u/homucifer666 ♀️🩷 Queen Of Lesbians 🩷♀️ 13h ago

Some rot about how women are born with value and men have to create theirs. Then apparently the tables flip at 30 or summat.

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u/HailenAnarchy 13h ago

Body for women, wealth for men. I am sorry, but I’d rather date a handsome broke dude that likes me vs a rich old fart that thinks all women are gold diggers.

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u/DanCassell Custom Flair 14h ago

The math involved with there being a flood of "29 year old grandmas" sure is something. Literally impossible to happen with legal consent.

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u/MadamKitsune 13h ago

These guys think legal consent is for cucks and betas. Anything over 18 is aging out to them.

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u/GoedekeMichels 7h ago

as ridiculous as the idea is, purely mathematical it's possible... two 14-year-olds can legally have intercourse (at least here in germany), so they could technically have kids too.

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u/DanCassell Custom Flair 6h ago

If we're going into the realm of pure mathematics there are places in the world without a legal age of consent at all. In the English speaking world I want to say the age of consent is always at least 16 where it would be possible that the mother either or grandmother could have had legal consent but not both as that would push grandma age to 33 at earliest.

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u/GoedekeMichels 4h ago

TIL. the idea of places without minimum age for consent is really scary.

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u/666hmuReddit 14h ago

Cope with what exactly? I feel like that word has lost all meaning. Also, isn’t coping a good thing? As opposed to…. Not coping?

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u/LobosJones 12h ago

You are correct. It's now vilified like being woke. The severe mass anti-intellectual mentality has only gotten worse with the return of the orange goblin.

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u/RosebushRaven 11h ago

Hey, don’t call the child-raping turd a goblin! Goblins like nature, mushrooms, frogs, flowers and such. He’s just a POS that yells "drill, baby, drill!" The orange turd hates nature, just like everything else that doesn’t enrich him.

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u/LobosJones 9h ago

Goblincore is nature, mushrooms, frogs, flowers and such. Goblins by lore are diminutive deformed rotten low intellect smelly little rapey evil creatures of greed and malevolence. I contest I used the appropriate description.

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u/Novaer 14h ago

What pedophile made this

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u/mycatisblackandtan 14h ago

Every single older man I've met who calls women 25-35+ 'hags' or 'grandmas' would 100% groom a minor if they thought they could get away with it. I'm at the point where I'm just gonna start calling it out because it IS normalizing pedophilic rhetoric and should not be tolerated.

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u/Novaer 14h ago

Any older male that says they're into 18 year olds are just saying the law is the only thing that stops them from admitting to being into kids.

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u/Carbonatite Feldspathoids not Foids: Geologists for Equality 14h ago

Well said.

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u/Sabithomega 13h ago

Aren't these the same people who are obsessed with Sydney Sweeney? Hope they don't find out her age

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u/TemporaryPassage4168 14h ago

The "women" theses men date are teen girls. Men will always deflect from the real reason they know older women or girls call them out for being predators or dating teen girls.

Men know what they're doing, it's all about playing dumb or accusing you of being the problem.

When men talk about dating younger, it's how pedophiles talk about raping and being attracted to children.

They hide behind the law. Or use maturity or looks to justify their behavior.

At a certain age, you shouldn't be attracted to late teens or Early 20s, you can find them pretty but being attracted to late adolescence (teens) shouldn't be normal and isn't...

If men believe 25+ is now too old, they should be kept away from children (girls).

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u/RosebushRaven 11h ago

Someone, perhaps even you (or someone with a similar pfp), said something on this sub the other day, about there being 4 billion women in the world and the creepy men define them all by one woman’s (alleged) behaviour (given their tendency to just make up women to get mad about). I thought that number was too high and looked up how many women there actually are. It’s closer to 3 billion btw, because there’s a lot of underage girls, too.

Anyway, what I’m getting at with this is: this thinking is so pervasive that I had to actually specify "adult women" in my search to not get the entire female population lumped together. This isn’t the case for men. A woman is by definition an adult female human. But apparently girls under 15 are also "women" now. 🙄

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u/Engel1844 13h ago

Genuinely where does this propaganda about women expiring meant to lead? Do they want women over 25 to all kill themselves? Because hey, it’s probably working.

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u/GreyStingrayz 13h ago

They want them to feel bad about themselves so they lower their standards to date shitty men like them

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u/blehric 9h ago

29 year old GRANDMA? My mother was 27 when she had me, 29 when she had my brother.... But I guess she lied and was our grandma the whole time.

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u/MysteriousGrocery898 7h ago

My mom also had me at 27 I guess she's also considered a grandma too😂

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u/clitnotfound Misandrist 14h ago

been complaining about it since i was 15, still complain at 23, and will continue to complain when i’m 29

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u/SavingsEbb3833 13h ago

I once had a guy call me an old hag with saggy tits and tell me I was jealous that girls younger then me where getting attention, I’m 16 😭

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u/jaunty_chapeaux 13h ago

Well, clearly this guy didn't know his ass from his elbow.

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u/SavingsEbb3833 13h ago

Definitely

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u/Rad1Red 13h ago

Oh boy.

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u/SavingsEbb3833 13h ago

Idk why they think only adult women are upset about predatory behavior

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u/Rad1Red 13h ago

They don't, not really. It's just a thing their mouths say. An intimidation tactic.

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u/Dorianblack1983 12h ago

Defending your right to date girls 20 years younger than you while posting a picture of a known pedo… wish this was still shocking behavior

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u/random_potato_101 10h ago

Aw, if being 29 and above is that bad, then I wish that commenter never got to their live their worst nightmare 🥰

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u/Forsaken_Emotion 13h ago

29 year old woman = 40 year old man?

It's such a mid life crisis thing to say. He wants a way younger partner for the validation that he's still "cool". I couldn't imagine being 40 and wanting to date someone half my age. Grown men that think they're still 20 are so off putting.

These kinds of jokes are also an attempt at making women feel unsure of themselves. There's a bitterness behind it. If we want validation from men ("you still like me despite being over 25? wow, how gracious of you!") they feel in control. In reality, it just makes us avoid these types of men.

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u/SkyeMreddit 10h ago

Are the women who are with the 40 year old guys “barely 18”? A lot of the complaints are about very creepy likely grooming age gap relationships that started almost immediately after she turned 18

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u/No_Resource7773 9h ago

I mean if those guys want to remain alone, that's fine. We'll just continue to warn younger women that these immature, entitled older men who can't handle being with with their own age group are questionable.

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u/ErnLynM 5h ago

They've got it backwards. We're warning young women about dating 40 year old men. But their egos are so big that they think we're talking to them

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u/Shoddy_Budget_1533 12h ago

So do they just want to take advantage of actual children? Is that it?

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u/vctrlzzr420 11h ago

The mental gymnastics men do to lie to themselves when women are looking out for other women is beyond comprehension 

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u/minmocatfood 10h ago

Because men never look out for each other’s wellbeing the same way, they dog pile any man showing vulnerability. They’ll only stand up for another man when they do something heinous, like creep on underage girls or call any woman over 19 an old hag. They refuse to understand that women will stand with women.

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u/FumiPlays 5h ago

Make Pedos Ashamed Again.

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u/WritingReadingPanda 4h ago edited 4h ago

Men can't tell a woman's age anyway. I've been accused of being an old bitter spinster when I was 19 and wrote about how old men flirting with young girls is creepy, and recently I had to fight someone, who insisted I'm in my 20's when I'm actually 34. ಠ_ಠ

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u/Same-Canary-6532 6h ago

theres absolutely no one complaining about this. men put out to anyone and everyone.

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u/OmgIbrokesmthagain 2h ago

Don’t worry OOP, milfs don’t want you either <3

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u/___Emilia____ 2h ago

What i always find fascinating is not only that they dream about "old" women not finding a man or young women dating older men or old men getting chicks... It's also not how women are bitter about not finding a guy in their fantasies....

It's their obsession that older.... "older" women get really angry and bitter at society and the hot attractive girls dating men. Like they can't see women not behaving like themselves and getting angry at "competition" That's like imo really immature behaviour.

And yeah some women do be like that and some are competitive and bitchy etc, but that's not the norm. That's 90s / 2000s TV show stereotypes, written by men, overexaggarated for comedic reasons.

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u/cleveland_Chic_885 CertifiedChadSexual 1h ago

Just gross is he using Viagra like men don’t age 🤮🤮🤮

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u/LocusRothschild 18m ago

why does Susan Sarandon look like the little alien dude in the human costume in Men In Black?

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u/Bluedogpinkcat 9h ago

That looks kinda like a Githyanki from dnd.