Tim is getting married at ~22?
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2024
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whats wrong with that?
Is that strange where you are from?
Indeed. Here most people are still either getting their education or just starting with work.
Yeah, I'd say so. At 22 the human brain isn't even fully developed. Tim and his wife are children acting out some theatrics inculcated by their (almost always) religious community. Then again, I live in an American state that embraces education and critical thinking, so my assumption is ol Tim is from Utah, or some other regressive theocratic place where they'd rather nip autonomy in the bud and tether young people to a prescribed way of life that hasn't otherwise existed outside of these antideluvian pockets for the last 70 years.
But I'm probably reading too much into it.
People throughout history have been married way younger.
It's only a very recent phenomenon in 90% of the world that people don't get married by 22. Even go back to the 80s and 90s which weren't that long ago - getting married under 25 was exceptionally common
I used to think the women of the past were all married young or spinsters, from reading little house on the prairie and other books. But looked up my ancestors on that Mormon website and was surprised to find that most were 28, 29. Even going pretty far back. This was mostly the US (and this area before unification) and southern Europe though, don't know that it can be extrapolated. I just didn't expect it.
Even then would be pretty recent considering human history, and I have a feeling that like you said that's very narrowed down through both region and religion.
Though funnily enough I grew up (middle school and high school) with kids from 2 different Mormon families as two of my closest friends, and knew kids from 2 others. Each of those 4 families had a minimum of 5 kids, and each one of those kids as far as I know, both guys and girls, got married by 23.
But it was normal in Europe to be betrothed as young as 5, and married at 12 or 13 for centuries.
If you go to the east, Akbar the Great was married off at 9.
this sounds kind of... completely crazy to be honest
also, isn't the human brain fully developed in most people by the age of 21? or it's 25, i dont remember. but even if it is 25, 22 is really close. i see no problem in marrying at that age
lol, solid endorsement
In Lesotho that’s practically middle-aged.
Is it weird that the most unrelatable thing here for me is that SongeBob existed when anon was in high school?
Edit: a word
I'm over 30, SpongeBob existed when I was in middle school.
Yeah, I'm over 40. SpongeBob didn't exist when I was in high school.
SpongeBob first aired in 1999, so if you were born '81 or later, it was probably on when you were in high school. But yeah if you're in your mid-late 40s you would have just missed it.
Hmmm with this we can deduce that SpongeBob was created sometime after 40 year olds went to highschool but before 30 year olds went to highschool 🤔
Yeah I’m Songebob, middle school didn’t exist when I was 30
And you think it's weird that people under 40 are on the internet? I'm almost 30 and SpongeBob has been on since I was in daipers
I mean from what I've seen people under 25 are barely "on" the internet, more like floating through the internet, absorbing content by osmosis.
You must have missed it, cuz you would have been around 15 when it came out
1999 grandpa. Anyone born after 1981 will have had the option of SpongeBob. That having been said it wasn't until the mid to late 2010s that I remember seeing grown ass adults obsessed with, and spouting lines from, a children's cartoon from 1999. So mostly 90s kids.
Ahh, they must've whispered "no homo" before getting in the showers together!
Fake: anon has a friend
Gay: literally gay
Fake because Brad didn't get gay with Tim and anon
fake because tim is marrying a girl
How many dicks do I have to suck to prove I'm not gay!?
If you someone tells you that broccoli is gross, but have never tried broccoli, can you trust their opinion?
Like one girl cock I think
In a row?
In my case, at least one
Real and bi
One of the few anon stories that seems plausible
Being queer in HS was so fucking fun.
I was in my countries equivalent in the late '00s and early '10s, and it ... really wasn't. So I'd say that's rather time and place dependent.
That's fair I graduated in 06 on a military base in England. Partly why it was so fun cause the faculty had no clue what to do with me.
If you don't mind me asking, when were you in high school?
I was in high school in the late 2010s, in a red county in a red state, and there were a few openly queer ppl in my grade who were never bullied throughout high school.
I think it was because allies outnumbered the homophobes/transphobes and bullies only punch down, not up.
I was in high school in the late 00s early 10s and I remember guys in the locker room talking about how they'd murder a trans woman if one "tricked them". Around that point the only reason I didn't realize I was a trans woman was that I really didn't want to realize it.
Do trans women date straight guys without disclosing it?
If they're pre/non-op, it's certainly wise to, though I don't see any reason to do so if they're post-op
Edit: these guys probably weren't referring to dating though- many trans women are unlikely to out themselves at a public bar to every guy that hits on them
saying "straight guys" here gives me the implication that you think it isn't straight for a cis guy to date a trans gal, which is transphobic. hoping that's just me reading it wrong or you expressing it wrong though.
to answer the question at hand though none of my trans friends would want to date someone who "would murder them if they 'tricked them'"
maybe there are a few trans people interested in tricking transphobes into having sex with them but that sounds extremely dangerous per that comment before...