I advocate this exact opposite of this advice for men and women.

One of the best things I ever did was dating women significantly older than me. It helped me learn and grow more than just about anything else I did at that time.

What’s with this narrative of female fragility that’s taking over? Women can’t be trusted to make their own decisions now? And I don’t understand why anyone who dates a younger person is automatically labeled as predatory? That’s just not the way relationships work. Is everyone really a weak fragile flower when they are 21? I somehow doubt that. I certainly was not.

I think this is more about policing assortative mating, etc., than anything else. (In other words, this has absolutely nothing to do with protection from harm, but rather eliminating more interesting, more resourced competition from the dating pool.)

Let people date who they want to date, as long as they are not minors. Must we really find yet another way to shame and control people?

Thank you, authoritarian left.