I can only speak for cishet dynamics - the most commonly cited reason and I guess most obvious reason is that dudes are thirsty for younger women, but ime the reverse is also often true, either because they've found men in their age bracket to be lacking in some way (take yr pick), or because they have some idea that older men will have their shit more together. (I can confirm this is generally NOT the case but anyway.)

This mayo is too spicy, do you have anything more mild?

I don't really have any context for what exactly the original post is about — I guess some A24 scandal I haven't heard of? — but speaking about age in general, as someone around that mid-20s-ish range, I feel like there's a simultaneous growing infantilization of adults and adultification of children as a result of late crapitalism. I like to call this phenomenon "age soup", the way actual legal adults are so often priced or otherwise shut out of traditional markers of adulthood, at the same time as children are being forced away from child-safe spaces and deprived of typical child things to do, and end up in these surveillance capitalist social media hellscapes where they're marketed to as if they're adults, and exposed to pedos and neo-Nazi recruiters and all sorts of other things that they're just too young for. Basically, the "simultaneous infantilization and adultification" is really just another way of saying that increasingly older people are being increasingly deprived of their independence, and increasingly younger people are being turned into increasingly exploited subjects of capitalist system.

Maybe I'll see things differently a decade from now, but from where I stand, I feel like even many people here are far too willing to buy into this sort of infantilization of adults that's being pushed by the ruling class. And I don't even really know why people here have this tendency to infantilize people my age. I mean, it couldn't be as simple as wanting to see themselves as somehow "above" younger adults, right? I don't think that's it, that doesn't seem in character for most of the people here. And it couldn't be as simple as going when people in their 20s or even 30s can't get jobs, can't afford a car or to move out or anything like that — people on this site are very much aware that things aren't fine, that's literally why we're here. So what is the deal with all the infantilization I see? I mean, surely we all know that all people deserve independence, respect and dignity, that's what we're fighting for. Surely we all know that power dynamics are bound up in tons of different factors which can all be structurally accounted for with some effort.

Depends on who you ask. Where I live seeing a woman in her 20’s (youngest is usually 23 with the average being closer to 25) with a man over thirty is very common. Not much of a power dynamic

Westerners seem to infantilize people at that age more for some reason.

Edit: I should add that most in that type of age gap relationship are usually poor or indigenous, often both. They’re both stuck at the same stage in their lives because the economic factors have kept them there.

24 is the youngest I could consider as an actual adult. Even then I don’t think most people remove their heads from their butts until 26-28 or so

if i was single again, i would never date a women in her 20s. my wife is in her 30s and sometimes i think she is too young and immature for me.

He's doing what the unions wanted.

look i was just copying a bit

The main difference in his case is brazeness, which is not the only thing we should consider.

Thank you!