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Why Oh Why

Stop Dating Older Guys

Why Oh Why

Andrea Silenzi

Personal Journals, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The age gap between men and women in heterosexual dating has become a fact of life in the 21st century. The Guardian’s Mona Chalabi suggests it’s time for that to change. Read her op-ed "I Want My 2.3 Bonus Years" in the New York Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Panaply.

0:03.0

The following.

0:05.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:17.0

The other day I was chatting with the Guardian's data editor Monachalvy and she's single.

0:24.6

So much so that when I asked her to introduce herself, this is what came out of her mouth.

0:28.6

Hi, I'm Monachalaby, I'm single, date me.

0:32.1

And out of all of her accomplishments as a writer, a TV presenter, a data

0:35.8

journalist, one of her top Google results is still that she made L magazine's 41 hottest

0:41.2

singles. Didn't get me any dates though, did it, so I can't be that hot.

0:45.0

And if you're sitting across Ramona, her singleness is jaw-dropping news.

0:49.0

She looks like a model, talks like a college professor.

0:52.0

She had the same question for me.

0:54.0

So can I answer you? You really single?

0:56.0

What? Oh my God, so single.

0:58.0

Does everyone ask you that? Are you really single?

1:00.0

That's funny.

1:02.0

It's hard.

1:03.0

Yeah, oh my god.

1:04.0

Don't even, yeah.

1:05.0

Are you really single?

1:06.0

I'm perpetually single.

1:08.0

I've been in altogether, like it's freakish,

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