age gaps are actually not a problem in themselves (as long as both participants are adults blah blah you know the drill). the potentially harmful dynamics between two partners with a big age difference arise from other factors that are associated with age. more wealth. more stable life situation. a big gap in relationship/dating experience. this is of course worsened if you add gender and/or racial dynamics to it. age in itself doesn't create this imbalance, we just exist in a system where older people are more likely to have other forms of privilege over their younger partner.
if you're both 30 but one of you has a job and owns the apartment in which you both live, that is a lot riskier than if you're 20 and 40 but both have independent income and housing. ya know?
The reason it's seen as a problem is because the issues surrounding it are far more common due to those discrepancies between people with wider age gaps.
It's far less common for two thirty-year-olds to be so different in so many ways that one thirty-year-old can't just sort things out for themselves and move.
A situation in which a twenty-year-old has independent income and their own place is very rare.
What you're criticizing isn't really that "age gaps aren't a problem," you're criticizing that some people view age gaps as a problem all the time.
You will not be able to get society to judge each age-gap relationship on an individual basis.
Society identifies problems and then groups them together for simplicity across a broad spectrum of functions.
This does, I agree, create a fundamentally awful society.
But all we can do is make up our minds that sometimes, something widely viewed as problematic is okay due to variables outside the usual situation.
And then save our time, energy and breath, honestly, because society isn't going to change.
Sometimes, we really have to have the courage and strength to deal with the fact that we will be criticized, ostracized, and even hated and otherwise bullied for having opinions strangers on the Internet don't agree with.





















