Brainstorm

I'm glad you met this guy. We're not all pricks who care so much about how you look that we miss the girl within. It sounds like you really grew from this relationship, and that's really everything you can ask from a relationship.

I'm also glad you received the compliment about looking older as a compliment, and not offensive. Not all of us want girls who look like 10-year-old boys.

Being a man, I'm not exactly the target audience for this article, but it was still a pleasure to read and I plan to share it with some of my friends who I think worry too much about conforming to an artificial standard of beauty.

It must be very difficult finding ways to dismantle such ingrained beliefs and habits, especially when many men have come to expect them.

when you're really happy and confident, you are the most beautiful, to yourself and to everyone else. It's so true, and I love articulated your journey! You're a great writer, Michelle!

This guy sounded like more of a sociopath than a feminist. I'm not an evolutionary psychologist or anything, but every article I've ever read states that guys perfer younger women. Women engage in neoteny because of this basic fact.

I have no doubt that the guy found you attractive. What I believe was truly going on, though, was that you bought into radical feminist ideology and this guy - the sociopath that he is - picked up on it and used it to his advantage in getting laid. He played on your fears of aging and you ate it up.

I could go on and on. But, the simple fact is, lady, you got played.

I feel sad for you.

David

And David, you're the kindest guy on the block. LOL. No worries about sociopathy in your small mind -

Amy