What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

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No offense, but I’m pretty sure the reason hundred-year-old-immortal-male/ human-teen/twenty’s-female trope is so popular and accepted among the majority of female readers is because we all want a mature guy in our lives, and we all know that it takes men those extra hundred years to reach the same level of maturity that is expected and often forced onto young girls the second puberty hits.

Except the problem I’m running into now is that these so called “immortal” males who are supposedly “hundreds of years old” still act like immature young adults. So there goes that theory. 

Sadly they are stuck with the same hormonal and brain development they experienced when they stopped aging as teenagers. Overactive amygdalae and undeveloped frontal lobes. You feel me?

perhaps it is stories telling us if we allow to let a certain type of immaturity in men as a guys wil be guys thing, then they will never mature as much as women

Excellent point. Cos it is always a dude immortal who is young and wreck less.

I cannot believe you scienced my post. I love it. It makes sense and explains a lot… my only problem is that I don’t think many authors put that much insight into their characters. 

True story. They just think it’s cool for young looking older dudes to creep on impressionable teenage girls.

I do not think it’s quite that nefarious. What I think is that they take the “attracted to older men” too far. Everyone has different tastes and a lot of younger women are attracted to older men - for various reasons. It has also been accepted in society for a long time that there is nothing wrong with age gaps, I mean even a few decades ago a young woman could marry a much older man and no one would blink. It’s only recently that I have personally seen and realized why those kind of relationships can be problematic. 

While these authors may realize that older man/ younger woman may be kind of creepy, for some reason they think that making the older man look younger and hotter somehow fixes the problem of them being much older in age. In my opinion it just makes the problem more convolute by making the predator harder to discern. I mean, half the reason these female characters are attracted to the these older male characters is because of their appearance: they’re always look to be in their “prime”: overall younger appearance, fit body, super attractive face - the maturity, etc is just an extra perk that doesn’t come into play until later. I mean would these female-characters be attracted to these guys if they actually looked their age (or even say 20-30 years older than the heroine) or even if they looked less attractive, fit, young? I think not.

Which is my entire problem with these kind of trope summed up.

aaaand now I wanna write a trope subversion where the young woman leaves her centuries-old boyfriend because he’s too immature and can’t take care of basic domestic stuff because he’s used to women doing it for him.

“Beloved, you don’t understand - I was raised with servants, this sort of labour doesn’t come easily-”

“YOU’VE BEEN ALIVE SINCE THE LITERAL ASSHOLE OF TIME, JAQUES! YOU LEARNED HOW TO DRIVE, YOU CAN LEARN TO USE A FUCKING WASHING MACHINE!

(via bookphile)

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