I was reading this interview with Kristen Roupenian (found by way of my friend’s blog) and though I liked it, I still have trouble wondering why there is such a push, after all the victories of feminism, to re-infantilize women.
This appears to be something many women actually want. Are women more immature, childish, than men at the same age? I have never found that to be the case but perhaps it is now true. I don’t know. And while I have no desire to date or sleep with twenty-year-olds in general, I can’t help but frame this as more about elimination of dating market competition than any other imperative.
I think Roupenian herself is a more nuanced writer than that, but many people (mostly women) want to downgrade women to naifs barely capable of making their own decisions.
Perhaps we should raise the age of majority of women to 35? Would that make feminists happy, that women are legally considered children until that age?
I don’t feel much different than I did at 20, or act much differently, though I am a lot less angry. Is that not the same for women? What’s going on here, apart from dating market competition?