You know how unwilling men are to accept that their attraction to women is socialized to desire and prefer women closer to a child’s age/ aesthetic? They will deny it until they die even when you point out how that most of what they find attractive represents “youth” 🙂🙂🙃🙃

First: Skin

No wrinkles or blemished skin, even if their skin looks like a Google satellite map

Ask a man over 30 if he finds wrinkles in a woman’s face sexually desirable, see what he says. He should. He likely cant. He doesn’t know how. He’s never learned to see them that way
Second: Fitness

They seek evidence of “health” bc that is associated with youth. We know that as we age, our bodies/ health deteriorates. Women who “work out” are seen as healthier and more youthful, not old and decrepit. However, this doesn’t apply to fat women who exercise
Third: Body Count/Marital status

The assumption is that the older a woman is the more men have been inside of her and if she’s divorced, a man used to own her pussy. This isn’t something pushed as attractive. Older men seeking younger women is connected to this
body count matters for various reasons but the one we don’t talk enough about is sexual insecurity and the fear of not measuring up to past lovers. The more there are, the greater the risk of failure. Younger women are more attractive bc they minimize this risk of embarrassment
Fourth: Size

A smaller woman can more likely be physically dominated and controlled, like a child. Shorter women won’t feel like “mommy”. Slimmer women won’t feel threatening. The smaller a woman is the younger she appears and that’s attractive to many men.
Fat women appear older so they’re definitely not desirable to most. Also see the point about “health” and “fitness” representing youthful energy—fat women appear to be the opposite of that. Fatness ages women, to them.
Fifth: Hair

Men have been conditioned to prefer hairless women and while this is a fairly modern thing, seriously like <50 years, it represents a desire for a more youthful appearance. We grow body hair for important reasons but it begins when we reach puberty (generally)
I like grooming for all bodies but don’t trip over pubes bc they exist for a reason. The demand for cis men to “shave down there” or have clean pits doesn’t even come close to the demand put on women to do so. Some of it sexist. Some ageist. All attacks on women’s bodies
Finally: Age

MOST men seek women younger than them, especially when they hit 35-40. The age they desire lowers and the gap is larger than when they were in their 20s. At 28, 25 worked. At 32, 25 still works. At 40, 25 is still good money...but 40 generally isn’t
At 40, the average single man does NOT want to date a 40 y/o woman unless she “looks younger”, is “fit”, isn’t hairy, doesn’t have grey hair or too many obvious wrinkles
I’m telling you as a woman over 40 who has men regularly ARGUE me that I can’t be my age...they do NOT want us unless we can pull off not outwardly appearing to be what they believe 40+ should look like
I have been an anti-ageism “activist” got going on 7 years now...ever since I turned 35 & became inundated w/ppl denying my age or trying to divorce me from my aging process as some complimentary action.

It’s a predatory sickness fueled by patriarchal misogyny
Remember when Tom Ford said he was tired of the “cult of youth” and ran this ad? People called it “geriatric porn” 😒😒😒😒😤😤😤

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This response to my tweet is a common objection to targeted advertising.

@KevinCoates correct me if I'm wrong, but basic point seems to be that banning targeted ads will lower platform profits, but will mostly be beneficial for consumers.

Some counterpoints 👇


1) This assumes that consumers prefer contextual ads to targeted ones.

This does not seem self-evident to me


Research also finds that firms choose between ad. targeting vs. obtrusiveness 👇

If true, the right question is not whether consumers prefer contextual ads to targeted ones. But whether they prefer *more* contextual ads vs *fewer* targeted

2) True, many inframarginal platforms might simply shift to contextual ads.

But some might already be almost indifferent between direct & indirect monetization.

Hard to imagine that *none* of them will respond to reduced ad revenue with actual fees.

3) Policy debate seems to be moving from:

"Consumers are insufficiently informed to decide how they share their data."

To

"No one in their right mind would agree to highly targeted ads (e.g., those that mix data from multiple sources)."

IMO the latter statement is incorrect.
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https://t.co/8ICvHxE9QL is easy & fun to follow for our smallest of people #EYFS. Early childhood is the perfect stage to introduce the core concepts of what it means to be a global citizen. For our reception & KS1 children please take a look at this fabulous free resource

https://t.co/tZx8UIS58Q Storytelling is a powerful communications tool and helps children remember lessons and virtues that they will use in everyday life. The idea is to simplify the lessons of the (SDGs) so young children can relate to – and better understand – the SDGs.

For older children here’s a board game that aims to help teach children around the world about the Sustainable Development Goals in a simple and child-friendly way

This is a lovely free book for children to enjoy flicking through themselves https://t.co/ScMbQCfpjl Elyx, the United Nations’ digital ambassador, uses various expressions and actions to help demonstrate the meaning of each Sustainable Development Goal.

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