Now that you've all taken my post spectacularly out of context, allow me to retort.
D_Otaku, that link is a completely irrelevant counterpoint to my argument. If you care to open your eyes and read my post properly, you'll see that I was asking
male SC members why they couldn't date
girls who are older than them. I said nothing about paedophiles preying on young girls, so unless any of our members are twelve years old and married to a forty-three-year-old woman, your post is invalid.
To further illustrate my original point, I would first like to say that I do not believe relationships where either participant is not legally an adult have any worth. I will henceforth refer only to relationships where both participants are above the legal age of consent. This being the case, I do not see any reason why the woman being older should make the slightest speck of difference to anything or anybody. If anybody can put forward a valid argument for why it should matter, going beyond such arguments as worrying about what your friends might think, then please feel free to do so. I can see a good debate coming from this.
And on a more personal note, my girlfriend is five years older than me and we've been dating for almost a full year. We've never cared what anybody thought of the age difference.
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