Being Old Enough to Vote is Just too Old

A few months ago a friend asked me why both of us were single, and why both of us seemed to have such difficulty in even attracting women. I began wondering about what makes me unappealing: Is it my career? Is it my thinning hair? Is it my refusal to use contact lenses, opting for glasses instead? Is it—as one woman told me a few months ago—my apparent “femininity” because I care about my health (real men, she explained, have a devil-may-care attitude and aren’t concerned with their health)?

I pondered these, but came to no single conclusion—although all of these together could have been the problem.

Then I realized that my problem, as well as my friend’s, probably isn’t any of these. Our problem is our ages; women like 13-year-old boys.

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