Gynophobia.

[Roy pryer]

Or are you saying you think bad of me for caring?

47 ain't old.

 

[Ragnahawk]

47 ain't old.

It's double my age! :/

 

[Beguiling Orbit]

I didn't lie. She's old. I just didn't know how old.

The life expectancy for U.S. females is 78.74 years. At age 47, this woman is only 59.7% of the way there. How is that old?

 

[Ragnahawk]

The life expectancy for U.S. females is 78.74 years. At age 47, this woman is only 59.7% of the way there. How is that old?

I guess perspective can't be factored in. . .

 

[Roy pryer]

It's double my age! :/

And half hers!

 

[Beguiling Orbit]

Here's an interesting quote from an article in the New Yorker titled "Why Ageism Never Gets Old":

Like the racist and the sexist, the ageist rejects an Other based on a perceived difference. But ageism is singular, because it’s directed at a group that at one point wasn’t the Other—and at a group that the ageist will one day, if all goes well, join. The ageist thus insults his own future self. Karma’s a *itch: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging reports, “Those holding more negative age stereotypes earlier in life had significantly steeper hippocampal volume loss and significantly greater accumulation of neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques.” Ageists become the senescent figures they once abhorred.

But I digress. Back to gynophobia...

 

[GrownupGirl]

Ohhh yeah, women are scary, amiright?
I'm a woman, by the way.

 

[Crossbreed]

Ohhh yeah, women are scary, amiright?

Like men, women can be scary on a case-by-case basis.

 

[GrownupGirl]

Like men, women can be scary on a case-by-case basis.

Wiki has some information on gynophobia, but none on anthrophobia, which is the fear of men. Strange.

 

[Crossbreed]

...on anthrophobia, which is the fear of men. Strange.

"Anthropo-" usually means "human," where "andro-" is used for (male-type) "men." (FYI, it is the root of the name Andrew.)

 

[DCA]

"Love shyness!" Every time I log into this forum I learn something new that helps explain me. This fitted me to a T before I turned 26. I had an opportunity that broke me out of this cycle, but it still has an impact on me even now. That explains a lot of what was going on in my life...