I keep being shown content these days that as a woman, if you don’t settle down by your mid twenties - you’ll miss the boat to get married and have children since men can apparently get women in their early 20s regardless of their age. There’s a mentality being pushed that women lose appeal and attractiveness over time in a way men don’t.

However, settling down young doesn’t protect women from this. If anything, being married and having children young will probably age you more. Funnily, my friends who are single in their 30s still look mid twenties at most.

Yes, there’s the fact that fertility peaks in early-mid twenties, but most women aren’t financially stable enough for children that young, and most men can’t afford to support a family independently.

Besides the fact that marrying young is more likely to result in divorce, men won’t care that you married them when you were young once you inevitably get old, and another 25 year old catches their eye.

There’s no acceptable way to age for women. If you try to prevent it and get work done you’re labelled as vain and desperate, if you let it happen naturally you’re seen as “giving up”.