@Dsiak
 
older women having babies shifts that curve to the right, over many generations, increasing the human lifespan.
 
rar’s still got a 63% chance, she just needs a few extra rounds.
 
@raakamagna
 
♥

@redweasel  
Aw man. Thanks. Ironically I appreciate those words. We have met before here and I recognize a genuine good person. :3

@raakamagna
 
I don’t know you honestly, but I think she’s fortunate that someone loves her, and y’ know… has that thing between his legs that a girl can’t acquire alone. you’re probably much more on top of that, but at least those things are certainly fortunate for her. better than anything I’ve got going for me…

@redweasel  
You consider her fortunate of me loving her? I wonder why people say that. Until a year ago I felt… worthless.

@redweasel  
They would run out of able time, its not only [harder for older woman to get pregnant when they age](https://www.yourfertility.org.au/everyone/age) theres also the menopause factor. I wouldnt count with pregnancy nearing the 40.
 
 
Older woman are just not the place you go for babies.

@Dsiak
 
think longer term than that. if older women have children, then women who live longer will have more children on average. this puts a selection pressure on women to live longer, and that’s likely to make women and men live longer. unless you’re an anglerfish.
 
@raakamagna
 
I can’t blame you personally, but I hope you realize that not everyone’s as lucky as you, or her.

@redweasel  
I think you got your biology mixed up, older woman’s children are actually more likely to be defective. You will find all the literature pointing in this direction.
 
Also there is no way to tell if the woman has “”“longevity genes””” just because she hit her 30’s, as 30 is really expected from all but the sickest of pones.

@redweasel  
I prefer going for instinct because I am in love with someone younger than I and because I live happier following my instinct and I have no need to break any law to do so.
 
I follow my nature and enjoy it. Of course I got nothing against going for someone fertile, but women older than I… Are no longer fertile.

@Minus
 
it’s instinct, which sucks, and also smug thots who exploit that instinct to make the problem unnaturally worse, then tell us it’s natural therefore it’s good.
 
personally I love people going against instinct b/c having kids with older women makes our species evolve to live longer. t’ain’t easy though.

Me: “AJ, sweetie, I love you but we really have to talk about some things. And look, I brought a friend along to help us out. No, no, don’t worry! She’s definitely not a licensed therapist. I know you don’t want a therapist. She’s just a… a regular, normal friend… dressed in a pantsuit… with a notepad… who may or may not have attended a college for the better half of a decade for unspecified reasons.”
 
Definitely Not a Therapist: “So, tell me what your childhood was like.”
 
[AJ makes a break for it]
 
Me: “Dammit!”

@Dsiak
 
@SorryNeverSorry  
You guys cheered me up, and saved me the long explanation. I actually think the whole age gap taboo that came tto be in the 90s is detrimental to society.

@Minus  
In all seriousness, there is also a tremendous power shift if you compare man and woman at that age as one is nearing his peak while the other is back at the base only to go downhill.
 
@SorryNeverSorry  
I wish there was a “going nuclear” one tho

@Dsiak  
You just made my day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Now you listen here you horse

@Minus  
The difference is instinct. Women tend to be attracted to men who can support and protect them and their children, ie men who are stable and have their lives figured out. These men tend to be older. Men tend to be attracted to women who can produce healthy children, ie women who are healthy themselves. These women tend to be younger. It’s just natural, nothing to be upset about.

@SorryNeverSorry  
That’s pretty depressing to hear. And maybe I sound naieve, but I am surprised it works out fine for men but not women. What’s the differing factor?

@SorryNeverSorry  
This is in fact true. Actually men over thirty can get a woman under twenty five with little to no effort if they are healthy and stable.

@Minus  
Maybe for men. Single women over thirty tend to be unhappy, and they tend to stay single.

@Aryanne’s Jewish Sex Slave  
@SorryNeverSorry  
This is literally the recipe for a good life.

Thirty and still single, huh Rarity? Well, that’s what happens when a woman devoted all her time to her career.  
Hope you like your cat.

@Ping_chan  
That’s what happens when you’re Batmare.

@Background Pony #C66C  
I’m happy with AJ being the youngest of the main six, but shares an obsession with responsibility only par to Twilight.  
The rest of the mane six are just along for the ride.

@Background Pony #C66C  
I just want to vouch for the information presented here.

@Background Pony #A617  
Nice observation, also recall that in the Mane Attraction Applejack wrote to Rara and told her about Applebloom after the events of Friendship Camp. Since the two were friends for just a short while Applejack couldn’t have been much older when she wrote to Rara (and Applejack just barely got her cutie mark in the Friendship Camp timeline).
 
Add that in the cutiemark flashback ep. Applejack said she was younger than the CMC when she got her cutiemark; none of this is said for the other mane 6; so Applejack could be on the younger end of the group.

@Background Pony #3634  
>Dash tries to get Fluttershy to buy her beer and smokes  
>she comes back with candy cigarettes and berry juice  
>gives Dash a pat on the head as she tells her not to eat it all at once  
>“sugar is bad for your health, after all”