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Dumping women before they hit 25?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭Mimon


    Not saying you are wrong but your whole post is pure speculation and very judgmental unless you have actual evidence that a power imbalance is why he pursues these types of relationships.

    We can all speculate, maybe he doesn't want to commit, maybe he doesn't want kids so moves on when his partners get broody. In any case I won't judge based on speculation which is what your post suggests you do.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    The rich live in a different world, a rich man will always find a young beautiful woman to be his girlfriend, I, d have no interest in going out with a woman under 35, I presume most 22 year olds are obsessed with social media or tik Tok, I'd prefer an average looking woman

    than a beautiful young woman. I think any age gap over 10 years is creepy, what would you talk about, young people have different taste in music, TV than most 40 year olds. That's a big age gap

    Of course his newest flame pays for nothing, she ll stay in 5 star hotels, go to expensive restaurants, travel in limos, or even private jets. Not a bad life Just because you are rich does not mean you have an awful personality, you might be just not well connected with real life. Celebs seem to mainly hang around with other rich or famous people , they call ordinary people normies or civilians. They only go to expensive restaurants or hotels. Some women like arrogant rude men , alpha males as long as they have money. Rod Stewarts girlfriends were all blonde model types before he got married

    I think his girlfriends know what he's like before they meet him they are not naive i think it must be tough to be that famous you are followed by papparrazzi all the time you can't go to your local mcdonalds for a burger



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭topmanamillion


    They're all adults so can do what they want. It's public knowledge he does this so they all know what they're getting into. Presumably the women are in it for the increased public profile they get during and after the relationship has ended. So where's the harm. All of the men in their 30s and 40s on here saying they wouldn't date women in their 20s because they wouldn't be able to relate to them are full of sh1t especially if those women happened to look anything like DiCaprios exes!



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Yeah but while men do look for beauty in a woman (of course, it's nature) they aren't all just interested in that alone. They can value personality, character, shared interests, as well as physical beauty... thinking of all guys as just interested in looks and sex and not caring about anything else, is a negative stereotype. It's like saying women are only interested in money.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,901 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    More power to Leo and these young ladies. If no one is getting hurt, it’s not really our business.

    I’m 47 myself and sadly have no luck with the 23 year old lads... 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,942 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Famous actors probably talk about how difficult it is to be famous, what's this director like, oh wow I had this really difficult audition yesterday, yeah I know what that's like etc., etc.

    I don't see anything wrong with age gaps between girls in their 20s and older men in general. Some girls are mature for their age and some are not. The mature ones can get along well with older men. Sometimes they will have common interests (ie the acting example above).

    The 'power imbalance' rhetoric does not ring true to me because many young women are aware of their sexual power, regardless of whatever faux-naivety they or others ascribe to them, and able to wield it to get what they want. This is always left out of the discussion.

    Older women whose sexual power has faded are not more powerful but less powerful! They are trying to use feminist rules to bridge their own power gap and they have managed to create a situation where you have grown men saying they are creeped out or disgusted by seeing another grown man dating a 25 year old women!! This is a purely socialised response if it is anything.



  • Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    He's a famous actor who has done this over and over. Any woman going into a relationship with him goes in with her eyes wide open. Personally a string of 20 something year old girlfriends sounds like a complete nightmare to me. I think he's probably gay.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,997 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    Interviewer: So Miss uprising new actress/model, what attracted you to the multimillionaire established actor Leo?

    Leo has form, his dating history is public for all to see.

    So maybe the next girlfriend will think she's "the one" and she'll change his ways but the reality is she probably won't. However she will benefit from a raised profile, a nice lifestyle and maybe even bring her career up a level.

    After the first few high profile break ups I thought Leo was "hiding his sexuality" but being gay /bisexual is so "now" there really is no need.

    Generally speaking when I see an older man with a much younger girlfriend I think, a woman of his own age wouldn't put up with whatever quirks he has.

    However famous actor with arm candy, it really has been done to death that it is now a cliche.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    It's not super creepy yet, nor uncommon in the US or elsewhere but he has set a pattern. He may be finding spiritual peace with these ladies, for a while anyway and he's not entirely to blame here. They are signing up to the ever ageing DeCaprio train! Rich and famous does that for some people.

    As to the OP question, not to say that such relationships can't work but there are reasons why we tend to stay in our own lanes age-wise, mostly down to interests, world experience and a desire not to be just a babysitter!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,857 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    So maybe the next girlfriend will think she's "the one" and she'll change his ways

    Yep that's what I reckon. It's worth rolling the dice anyway. Even George Clooney settled down in the end...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,997 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    Yeah but he married a woman who was extremely successful in her own right. She didn't need him to advance a career or anything like it.

    Their relationship is more "equal", the relationship didn't really benefit either of them career wise/publicity wise etc if anything you might think she married "beneath" her depending on your perspective.

    I wouldn't group her in with an aspiring model/actress .



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭Brid Hegarty


    I've nothing against women over 25, apart from the fact they tend to put on a lot of weight between 22 and 30.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,265 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    I'm sure many of them are relived to hear that.



  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Don't really see what he'd have in common with some young wan,I'm fair bit younger than him and I wouldn't have much in common with that age group



    Whole thing has a strong whiff of yacht girl off it tbh,which once it's all consensual between adults,what of it



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭Brid Hegarty


    None of this can really be discussed without mentioning the pareto principle. In the context of dating, men aren't as choosy about their sexual mate. Therefore they top 10% of men are more likely, to not only shag women of equal attractiveness, but to also shag down below their level. It means the men in the percentile below this are confused why women of their own attractiveness have no interest in them until they are ready to settle down.

    I've heard on PUA websites, that the top 20% of men (presumably between 16 and 35-ish) are shagging the top 80% of women... presumably within the same age range. Now I doubt it's that extreme, but to a greater or lesser extent, something of this effect is taking place out there. But in order for this to be occurring, it can only mean that there's a lot of men in the top percentile who are cheating... and that the women they're cheating with, would rather keep shagging such a man in the hopes that he'll leave his partner.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    "The top" according to whom? I wouldn't touch Leonardo with a stick, and he's younger than I am. You really need to stop applying economic principles to human beings.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 754 ✭✭✭dontmindme


    Indeed...it's pure genetical impulses at work regardless of how you want to slice it statistically.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Add in a drop of reason or irrational thinking, social conditioning, cultural norms, and the weird and wonderful thing that happens when you find yourself magnetically drawn to someone you wouldn't even consider on paper.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Imagine the little blue pills he has to take. Imagine her disappointment....



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    That's the age when women are at their slimmest.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭mohawk


    This sums it up for me. He isn’t a typical guy for his age and is missing many of the typical experiences we all go through as we age. The guy never had a normal life ever. Most of those child stars seem to come out of it completely messed up.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,309 ✭✭✭evolvingtipperary101


    He would have 23/24 when he made Romeo + Juliet & Titanic in quick succession. He was a star already, but these movies blasted him into the A list. Hollywood royalty. Who wouldn't want to stay that age forever when you're that talented, rich, and famous?

    How do you move on from that kind of fame? Why would you grow out of that?

    Only a few can know what that kind of fame and money means? It kills some people, others flourish. But nobody avoids weirdness.



  • Registered Users Posts: 330 ✭✭cezanne


    maybe he has a pre nup with them all promising 1 million bucks at the age of 25 to go away quietly and say nothing about him ever. None of them ever berate him so he gives them something tangible . Good time for 3+ years and a nest egg at the end, mosty women would sign up for that. All the parties yachts premieres everything for 3/5 years, all ends when you are bored with it anyway & the few quid to start again...... better than the lotto.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    He doesn't look good at all, slightly above average facially at best

    The boards users really showing their age and or appearances by describing him as such. What he is though is rich, self-important and a status god. He can choose who he wants and when he wants it. This is just how the female mind works unfortunately. Especially when younger(anything up to 30 depending on a few factors). If you're a hot, fame hungry women why not date him tbh? Everyone is flawed so why not date one who travels around in private jets and lectures people on sustainability? That way you can feel virtous too while you trade your body for sex with a once handsome but now rich pudgy older guy. The only problem is that their standards are raised but they're so hot anyway they will get some other alpha male anyway.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Wow. All these experts on the hive, female mind on here.



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  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tbf it's weird as fcuk,some bloke hitting for 50,going out with college students



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    There's clearly certain things that ting through for both sexes, the truth will differ to varying degrees but will hold true on some level nonetheless.

    I personally do value other things as well as looks but looks will always be front and centre. It just means I won't put up with someone if all they have is looks but I'll look for someone with similar looks but with a personality that is better suited to mine.



  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Because I'm a generation or more behind him,and it would be and feel weird as fcuk me going out with a college student,who simply look like children at this stage to me


    Like he can do what he want with any other adult,no skin off my nose....but if it was anyone else it would rightly raise eyebrows



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭whatawaster81




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,519 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Lets be fair if your 40 & single & had a choice to ride some 40 year old or one of the Lady's Leo went out with who do you think 99% of men would chose ?

    Which one likes dinosaurs the most?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,519 ✭✭✭✭kowloon




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,519 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Who was it who was looking for a definition of creepy?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭whatawaster81


    So you're 31 and you're attracted to 18 year olds. I'd see that as a kid. 6th year. You're a 31 year old supposed grown man looking for farts in your face? Beyond weird.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭Jequ0n


    I knew McAfee was still alive. Didn’t think he’d post here though.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    The farts in the face is pure simp behaviour and defo creepy but thinking 18 year old are hot isn't. Depends on the girl



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭whatawaster81


    According to your post history you work in the pharmaceutical industry have a wife who's a GP and have 3 children. So that you?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,519 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Can always get a divorce once the kids' friends become legal.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    How dare people show their age! 😡

    No it's not how the female mind works, suddenly changing at midnight on their 30th birthday (it is of course how some people think though). You think you seem knowledgeable but you just seem clueless.



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The second paragraph is what guys who say they couldn't relate to someone so much younger mean.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,519 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Only watched that the other night, still not sure what to make of the guy.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    This isn't just about riding though, it's about being in a relationship.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Is there much demand for receiving the vapours of someone's flatulence episode into one's oral cavity?



  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ya mate,still would rather be knee deep in shite,sleeping in a tent at EP,than stuck at home with 3 kids at 31



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Pissy Missy


    I could just about let it go if he was at least handsome and didn't look his age but he's old and unattractive now, personally I just think he's a creep going after chronological 'adults' with a childs mindset



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Legit. Looks really bad especially compared to his peak

    Obviously doesn't give a **** and that kids is why you shouldn't be vegan



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,549 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Your post history suggests you're not the best person to comment on the motivation of any woman, nevermind all of us as an imaginary collective. Maybe look inward and reflect before projecting?



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