OK so it's been over a month since I the Happy Bachelor posted any base shares, mainly on behalf of Tropical Soulvangelical. It's partly because he's been less angry lately (with the exception of that cop not facing justice for pepper spraying teenagers at so-called "illegal" protests, whatever that means). He's been less angry, because there are a number people he's feeling attracted to, so maybe Lady Gaga may have been right, that maybe Love Does Conquer Hate. That said, he sees there's an age difference between him and a number of people among the number of people he's attracted to. He really thought nothing of it until via arocalypse he came across a cartoon site that's using the concept of the creepiness age formula, supposedly for the sake of a conversation starter. But he found himself on the periphery of that formula, and he's kind of disturbed about it. He really doesn't care if it's for arguments' sake, because he and I both know that our society takes these kinds of things way too literally. He could end up getting attacked on social media for being a "dirty old man" even though he's not a senior, and the people he's attracted to are reasonably grown up people (of course we're all grown-up kids, or none of us truly grew up). So he's going to get attacked, and it wouldn't surprise him if the politicians tried to pass a law in some jurisdictions making that kind of age difference actually illegal, just to win reelection on a wedge issue/culture war of some sort, with absolutely no intention of enforcement, except supposedly by mob rule. If there were pitchforks and torches on either TikTok or Instragram, this would be it. He kind of feels like he can never get it right, even though he feels ready for something serious happening between him and the right kind of person, and even though I'm the Happy Bachelor, I want to give him that little push towards obeying his heart and that yearning that most human beings have for some kind of loving compassionate human contact. He came out as aro within the last month, so no it's not going to be candlelight dinners at Four Seasons (unless he wins the lottery without playing), or raising a nuculur family or anything. But even on either an aro or a Happy Bachelor level, there's a human need for tenderness and togetherness and sharing things that make us vulnerable as a form of intimacy with those we hope accept themselves enough to see themselves in the rest of us to know that at the core of our very souls, we do really want the same basic things in life. He's hoping that even as a conversation starter, the creepiness formula gets revised to reflect reality, and doesn't become yet another tool for social division that's just self-defeating in the end.