This is the bare minimum of decent human behavior for ANY gender. If you are an adult and someone who is not an adult wants to have a relationship with you, it is your duty to, at bare minimum, turn them away.
and like… having crushes on adults is a Normal Adolescent Thing, but it doesn’t mean they’re ready for–or for that matter, want–an actual relationship with said adult. it’s a goddamn developmental phase for kids working out their sexuality, and treating it as a chance to get laid is fucking monstrous.
Recommended tactics to deal with a child hitting on you:
“kiddo”
“buddy”
inform a friend to ensure you’re never left alone with them
refer to own age in conversation
“yeah, I know I look young, but you wouldn’t BELIEVE how awkward it is being mistakenly hit on by a teenager!”
upon that child turning 18:
“Happy birthday, kiddo!”
“Have you registered to vote yet?”
“Man, being a baby adult was so hard, good luck with that”
And as a reminder, teenagers often have crushes on older and/or unavailable people like celebrities precisely because psychologically/emotionally they’re not ready to have a relationship. On a subconscious level, fantasizing about someone you know you can’t be with allows you to experiment with your emotions in a safe way. And obviously an adult taking advantage of that will disrupt the entire thing.
tinder is fucking wild honestly I’ve been swiping for 20 minutes and I’ve come across 2 people that put the date of their parent’s deaths in their bio, 3 different people with startup companies that were just trying to network, 6 different profiles that say 25 but when you read the bio it says “actually I’m 19 but its fine” (no it’s not??), a girl who used a demon-with-no-eyes filter on every single picture, someone who said their car got stolen so now they’re selling nudes, and also I got super liked by a catfish who’s using pictures of my cousin…20 minutes.
- a girl in a skimpy bikini, wearing a disturbingly realistic bloody severed pig head mask. no other photos or description provided. she’s come up three times in one day and I’m scared
- someone with green hair, in a hospital gown, chugging a bottle of wine and holding up a copy of the communist manifesto…dare I say, mood?
- a gorgeous guy who set his gender to ‘Thor’ and his job as ‘God of Thunder’. admittedly, he does look like a god, but face wise I’d put him closer to Will Friedle than Chris Hemsworth
- someone who just straight up had a different person in all nine pictures provided. at least they’re upfront about catfishing lol
- everyone’s just looking for weed
- I matched with a boy two years ago. He sent me a gif from 50 shades of grey. I never responded. Today, I opened the app to a new message from him reading ‘hey boo?’
- A girl that I went to high school with came up but the thing is….until I saw her face, I had completely forgotten about this girl’s existence. I had absolutely no memories of her until I was forced to. This wasn’t even some random person I passed in the halls, I ate lunch with her every day, we had multiple classes together, we got along fine….it was like my mind had been erased….what the fuck. High School Makes Fools of Us All.
- A girl who’s first pic was disturbingly realistic makeup that turned her mouth and jaw into a mangled bloody mess
- an account that only had one picture, which was a painting of Washington on a horse with Gritty’s head photoshopped on it. I swiped left by accident. Help.
- ANOTHER catfish using pictures of a DIFFERENT cousin??? hello???
HELLO??? IS ANYBODY OUT THERE??? HELLO?!
- a guy who used the same picture of him in front of a dinosaur skeleton, nine times, just with different filters
- an account named ‘Daddy Daycare’ with the only picture cropped to look like Eddie Murphy was getting pounded
- I matched with an account named ‘Kill Bill’ and the only picture provided was of Shrek
- Am I Not Supposed To Know What Tom Holland Looks Like
- a girl had a pic of her in a spiderman costume but we didn’t match which means somehow she saw the pic of me in a hulk mask and didn’t realize we’re soulmates??
- a guy messaged me ‘hi’ in like February and I just got a another message from him saying ‘okay I took a few weeks to recover but now I’m back and ready for more rejection’ and it made me laugh so hard I’m seriously considering responding lmao
- someone asked ‘do you have any hulk hands to match?’ and I genuinely have no idea how to respond
- I matched with a joke Danny Devito account and I messaged them ‘danny devit-hoe’ and they unmatched with me :(
- Am I Not Supposed To Know What Dove Cameron Looks Like
- someone trying to sell guinea pigs
- Am I Not Supposed To Know What Brendon Urie Looks Like
- someone included a screenshot of their credit score in the pictures
- “I’m as fun as I look!” *is scowling in every single picture*
- a guy referred to his dick as the ‘Encyclopedia Britanica’
- SPIDERMAN TRAMP STAMP SOULMATE LOCATED THIS IS NOT A DRILL
