This was me. When I got married at 26, the date of one of the guests thought I was the teenaged babysitter. (We met for the first time the day before)
Dating while in school/college was easier because the guys knew I was their age. And that I just looked young. Some of them caught shit for "dating a high schooler" even though I was actually in my 20s and a college student.
I was friends with my now husband for three years before we got married. Making friends with people, making a connection, can help them see you as the adult you are. Then you start to look like someone they'd want to date. I was 23 when we met and became friends, we started dating over a year later. Dated for 2 years and married ever since.
Things are different now, as far as meeting people. I know that. But how people perceptions change is still the same. Sometimes you have to just let people get to know you and get past the initial "She's young" until they realize you are not that young.
Once someone knows you, they'll think of you as their peer, even if you look young (or old for that matter)
If you just want hookups, that's trickier. Because the easy pickings are um, questionable in their tastes when you look like a teenager. Or they are the teenagers. Just be careful if you go that route.
Oh, and I was an A cup, size 2 petite. So skinny and short on top of looking young. I also got mistaken for a boy if my hair was pulled back.
Learning to love my body and it's changes through the years, boosting my self-esteem, finding things I could be passionate about... those things are very attractive to others because those things make you feel better about yourself.
Ugh. This reminds me of a relative asking me 'aren't you afraid of how you'll be treated if minorities become the majority?'
I think my mouth literally fell open. Not religious ideologies that hate women, mind you. They meant racial minorities in a predominantly white area.
People who ask questions like that know in every cell of their body that the system that they thrive in treats others horribly and justify it by believing that anyone in power would do the same.
So no, I'm not afraid of a race or nationality of people. I'm afraid of people with inhumane ideologies.
Think of it this way though, she reduced Bezos net worth by more than any taxes, government, or humanitarian aid did. Searches say by about 25% at the time.
She reduced the worth of one billionaire and is attempting to funnel as much of that as she can into humanitarian and charitable efforts.
If she burned it, it would help no one. If she gave it all to governments, 99.99% would fund weapons, war, and waste, maybe 0.01% towards social programs.
She's not buying yachts or islands. She's doing what we as normal people would hope we would do if we had obscene amounts of money dumped in our laps.
The alternative is her ex-husband would still have it and he'd spend $45M on a party. And Trevor Project would have none of it.
On a side note, slightly related, I'm wondering what happens when Elmo kicks it and all his relatives', baby mama's, and children's lawyers come out of the woodwork to contest and divvy up that fortune.
Those are called split ends. If you have a lot of them, it's best to get a trim (just enough to snip off the split ends) and then try to figure out what is causing them.
You can't repair them. You can only get rid of them and then avoid them. Or keep getting maintenance trims.
With split ends trimming = longer hair over time.
Source: I had them so bad for years that my hair would break off and not get any longer looking. For me, it was too much heat (hair dryer and curling iron every day)
First read through, I assumed "big dumb one" was a human from your cat's pov, and the mental image of the other people and cats guarding a large man from a kitten so he can poop in peace was hilarious.
Are you talking about a certain guy who openly talks about what he does beyond the gym & diet to have the build he has?
If so, I watch because he's really good at explaining technique. Even though I'm not trying to be a bodybuilder. I just want to be strong and not get hurt.
Okay, I'm 50+ and hate talk radio, general chit chat vlogging stuff.
But I now listen to two guys talk about anime because I got into it during lockdowns. No one my age wants to watch/ talk about it. I feel very "hello, fellow kids" if I try to find current fans.
So I listen to these guys discuss the things I've been thinking about. The story, the artwork, whatever. It scratches that itch and I'm not bothering anyone.
They sometimes discuss their lives. But it's mainly anime chit-chat. And I can skip ahead on the ones I don't watch.
When he sends everyone home, they just aren't doing committees and votes?
Can't they stay and still do things that help their districts or prep for when they are back in session? They can still work. They are still getting paid.
I think they were addressing an implied specificity in your question. You were asking about American-based media or media for US audiences without explicitly saying that.
For instance, Get Out wouldn't have hit the same if the entire cast had been white. The racial tension is the point.
Because it sounds like you are saying we accept The Ring remake being a white cast. But if Ringu had been remade with a non-white English speaking cast it would be called woke by US right-wingers. (Even though it's Japanese fiction. At least I hope it is fiction)
Siothe other person is asking, I think, if Japan remade Get Out for the Japanese audience and used Japanese speaking white and black people, would Japanese right-wingers lose their shit and call it woke for not casting ethnically Japanese actors?
The follow-up question becomes:
is it a right-wing issue regardless of the race or nationality of right-wingers
or
is it a uniquely US problem because of the ignored national diversity of the overall population?
I'm using mint in fluffy warm house socks. In my defense, I'm using Mint because I may have to install a super user-friendly linux on the old computers of two boomer family members who are using win 11 and macOS respectively.
I need to make sure I know it really well and can do whatever tech support I need to do. And lock it down for them.
But I'm also digging it. Especially since it's not Weyland, I've been able to lock all the inputs and still watch movies
Edit: to protect from my cat, who just knocked my phone out of my hand and butt submitted this before I was ready. Now to clean my screen
I'm old enough to remember when this was a thing. TV didn't have a remote, 3 main channels. That era.
The thing that hasn't changed is people wanting to talk about their favorite media. What has is the arena. I don't know irl people watching what I watch. So I end up talking with other fans on Discord or watching youtubers geek out like I am.
The trick is not falling for parasocial relationships with these people gathered around the virtual water cooler.
On Jan. 26, 2025, the FDA approved once every four weeks maintenance dosing of lecanemab for early Alzheimer's disease. On August 29, the FDA approved weekly subcutaneous maintenance dosing of lecaneamb for early Alzheimer's disease. The hope is that at-home administration of the treatment will be less burdensome...
The treatment will allow people to have more time to participate in daily life and live independently.
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This was me. When I got married at 26, the date of one of the guests thought I was the teenaged babysitter. (We met for the first time the day before)
Dating while in school/college was easier because the guys knew I was their age. And that I just looked young. Some of them caught shit for "dating a high schooler" even though I was actually in my 20s and a college student.
I was friends with my now husband for three years before we got married. Making friends with people, making a connection, can help them see you as the adult you are. Then you start to look like someone they'd want to date. I was 23 when we met and became friends, we started dating over a year later. Dated for 2 years and married ever since.
Things are different now, as far as meeting people. I know that. But how people perceptions change is still the same. Sometimes you have to just let people get to know you and get past the initial "She's young" until they realize you are not that young.
Once someone knows you, they'll think of you as their peer, even if you look young (or old for that matter)
If you just want hookups, that's trickier. Because the easy pickings are um, questionable in their tastes when you look like a teenager. Or they are the teenagers. Just be careful if you go that route.
Oh, and I was an A cup, size 2 petite. So skinny and short on top of looking young. I also got mistaken for a boy if my hair was pulled back.
Learning to love my body and it's changes through the years, boosting my self-esteem, finding things I could be passionate about... those things are very attractive to others because those things make you feel better about yourself.