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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/Almondperson15 on 2023-08-10 03:26:20.

I see this all the time, men online age shaming women and going on about our “biological clock” and our fertility and such. And I like to confront them about this, and educate them a bit on the fact that even if there is much less research on it because of misogyny in the medical/research field, it has been proven that sperm gets much worse with age and while having a child with an older man might be possible, it is an awful idea because it increases the odds on all sorts of birth defects, conditions and even complications during pregnancy. I mean, if the little blue pill didn’t exist, it would be basically impossible for these older men to be making babies, but scientists decided to meddle with nature in that manner. I argue to men all the time on reddit who claim that it’s “natural” for a young woman to be dating older or much older men, but logically it makes NO sense at all, besides just the creep factor. Logically, when the heck would literally any woman carry a child for 9 months only for it to turn out less healthy, handicapped, miscarriage, or risk actual death due to complications in pregnancy because the sperm is older. Why would any woman go through that, risk going through that when you maybe had to give birth in some cave in the wilderness in the past. It makes NO sense at all to go for an older man when this is the case, it makes way more sense that we should choose well and be picky like that, and we have been getting slut shamed anyway when we aren’t incredibly picky. I mean sperm banks absolutely refuse to accept men older than a certain age for a good reason, yet we never hear about this at all. I am sick of older men acting entitled to me and telling me I want to be with some 50 year old despite me telling them no, and I am sick of it being so normalised with Hollywood. Women need to stop accepting this and need to be more aware of this all. If you are having a kid with some older man you need to be well aware of the risks so you are taking on.