Evvie said:Thursday, you are a cool dude, and I also know you meant your comment lightly, but seriously fuck this shit.UncleThursday said:JordanBlack said:Related to make-up:
- if I wear none, I seriously look like jail-bait, sometimes it gets creepy, to the point that I'm told I'm gonna be reported to mfc admins, because I look 16.....fuckety-fuck I'm 2 months shy on being 29 :angry4:
Most women embrace looking younger than they are.
People have threatened to call the cops on me AT A RESTAURANT WHERE I MAKE SANDWICHES FOR PEOPLE because I looked "too young" to be a legal employee.
I get treated like a child everywhere I go. People ask me if my 30 year old beau is my father. Whenever I try to buy cigarettes, I hold up the line for five minutes while the cashier stares at me and my ID trying to figure out if they should kick me out because even though I'm 20, I look too young.
I receive pedophilic comments from men every time I am on camera. People immediately judge me based on how I look. People refuse to believe facts about my life because I look 'too innocent'. 75% of all casual conversation I receive is based around how young I look. My co-worker asked me if I thought I had a disability because I look like a child. People don't take what I say seriously. My life revolves around the fact that I look like I am 13 years old.
Many women may appreciate not looking old, and many women may appreciate looking like they are 18 or 19 years old, but it really fucking sucks trying to be an adult when you look like you're waiting for your parents to pick you up and take you and your no-kisses-we're-not-old-enough boyfriend to the Twilight premier. The fact that some women enjoy looking younger does not mean it doesn't very negatively effect my life.
I do understand the difference you are talking about, Evvie. There's a difference between being in your late 30s and 40s and looking like you're 10 years younger, and looking like you're underage jailbait when you're almost 30 (sometimes older in the case of one girl I know IRL). I know one girl who is over 40 now, but because she's tiny (4'10.5" and God help you if you forget the half) and looks young, she gets carded for EVERYTHING. And while at some times she likes it, at others she finds it a huge pain in the ass.
And I did mean it lightly.
Then there's the other side of the coin... where young underage girls look older than they are, and not in a way that ends up being good. I remember when I was 20, I hooked up with a girl while out, and then I invited her out for some food afterwards, and she said she had to ask her dad. I thought she meant make sure it was OK to come home later (it was already almost 2 AM). Then she said he was picking her up... and that she was 15. She easily looked to be around 18 at the time. Well, in this state, 15 will get you 20... so I hightailed it out of there. Next day I'm in work, and one of the girls I worked with said "so, I hear you met my cousin last night" and I was like "as soon as I found out she was 15, I was gone." and her reply was "she's a skank, don't bother with her."
The whole age appearance thing can be good and bad, though. I was at a party a few years back, when I was 35, filled with mostly 20 something girls. And none of them believed I was over 30. It was kind of flattering... kind of. Though, I sincerely don't think I look younger than I am.