r/nottheonion • u/novagridd • 8h ago

Thailand's Prostitution Patrol on High Alert as 5,000 US Sailors Drop Ship After 200 Days at Sea

https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/pattaya-police-intensify-prostitution-patrols-us-navy-visit-1763395
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u/Bovronius 7h ago

I see you've met my brother that joined the navy... I don't think he owns a piece of civilian clothing thats not a blue lives matters piece... Also he's always in crippling debt but also has 3 new guns everytime he would come around... Also he's engaged to his buddies daughter he used to babysit.

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u/guimontag 7h ago

That last sentence YIKES

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u/Kopitar4president 4h ago edited 3h ago

There's a clip of a guy in a comedy club where he's asked how old his wife is.

23

How old is he

42

How long have they been together

5 years

How did they meet

It's his friend's daughter

And then he gets a round of applause.

Large age gap relationships are frowned upon on reddit (even without the added disgusting factor of grooming your friend's daughter) but most people don't see them as a big deal.

Edit: It seems people think I'm cool with large age gap relationships with teenagers. I'm not. The above situation disgusted me. I have friends who were victims of being groomed into relationships with people in their 30s and 40s within months of turning 18 and I've seen the trauma it caused them.

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u/Rail12 4h ago

I’m going to be honest. I think that’s wishful thinking on your end. My friends, who are not on Reddit, are in their 20s (so the desired age range of creep dads)  think the guy in your story is a creep. And in all honesty, a recap of a comedy show can’t actually prove that only Reddit thinks large age gaps are gross. 

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u/Kopitar4president 3h ago

Oh I'm sorry if I gave the wrong impression. I think they're disgusting and predatory.

To be clear I'm 37 and my fiancee is 34.

I have friends who were groomed into age gap relationships and I'll never be a "cleaning my shotgun when my daughter bring a boyfriend over" but if he's my age he better find a reason to break up with her before I'm in jail.

It's fucked up people in general don't think it's a big deal. It's a bad thing.

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u/Bakoro 4h ago

And in all honesty, a recap of a comedy show can’t actually prove that only Reddit thinks large age gaps are gross.

Jokes and derision of "cradle robbers" go back a long time before reddit was a thing.

There's also the stereotype of the gross and immature kind of guy that people make fun of, the 21+ year old who can't get over high school and is still trying to get with highschool girls.

Meanwhile in many religious communities, a young girl and old guy is a typical thing.

Historically, an age gap was about getting with an "established" man, someone who actually had their shit together and could provide for a family, what with women basically not having rights and all.

People are all over the place on the issue, and it's changed over time and space.

Talking about "reddit" having an opinion about anything is silly, something like ~29% of men and ~23% of women in the U.S use reddit, ~5% of the world population uses reddit, it's a big tent.