{"id":3600,"date":"2010-04-14T23:15:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T06:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2010-04-14T23:46:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T06:46:19","slug":"double-standard-my-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3600","title":{"rendered":"Double standard my ass."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my birthday week and I&#8217;ve felt pretty good all week. I was asked by one of my friends (the one who told me I should go out with women I find unattractive because that&#8217;s all I was ever going to get at this point) what age of women I could go out with now. Well, the <b>Sex and the City<\/b> calculation is half your age plus seven, so (46\/2)+7 = 30. But I&#8217;ve come to find that calculation ONLY WORKS FOR WOMEN. I get all sorts of shit for wanting to go out with younger women (well, 30 is about the limit, really, because too young and I&#8217;d just go insane listening to their &#8220;Lady Gaga&#8221; or some such shit) but all the single women my age are going out with 30-year-old guys. Plus they get all huffy when I use the &#8220;C&#8221; word (Cougar) and take any enjoyment out of teasing them by being indignant. I mean, really, isn&#8217;t that about the only joy I&#8217;m going to get out of this?<\/p>\n<p>One of my buddies, a good looking Indian-American dude, told me he&#8217;s never asked a woman out. He&#8217;s never had to, really, but he&#8217;s a shy dude and ti&#8217;s worked out for him. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve never asked a woman out, but my success rate has been pretty poor. At least it&#8217;s been within a decade, or 19.6% of my life rather than 100%. How to hide the facts with math, man, it&#8217;s an art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my birthday week and I&#8217;ve felt pretty good all week. I was asked by one of my friends (the one who told me I should go out with women I find unattractive because that&#8217;s all I was ever going to get at this point) what age of women I could go out with now. Well, the Sex and the City calculation is half your age plus seven, so (46\/2)+7 = 30. But I&#8217;ve come to find that calculation ONLY WORKS FOR WOMEN. I get all sorts of shit for wanting to go out with younger women (well, 30 is about the limit, really, because too young and I&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Double standard my ass.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}