Eddie

THAT WOMAN IS FUCKING BEGGING FOR DEATH BEACUSE YOU DID THIS

WHY CAN MOIDS NEVER TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER

like, there’s already that underlying sort of feeling that they’re not living up to the expectations of men their ages. they should be dating and have jobs and maybe even think about having families. they exist in that arrested development state of being overgrown boys who refuse to grow up. and I think that while that’s already a bit of a defiance of social norms for men, it’s REALLY interesting as women

especially in a world that is pushing for more “traditional” expectations of women. be homemakers, get married, raise the children. there’s more of an almost “responsibility” placed on the idea that women SHOULD be having children. and so I think they’d be judged a bit more, but it also makes what Matt and Jay already have even MORE compelling! loser fail women whose own mothers would have lived through a time when women weren’t even allowed their own bank accounts. who have narrowly missed the ways sexism would have made this lifestyle completely impossible just decades earlier! women with no desire to work but don’t fall into that “so I’ll marry a rich man” mentality. Matt IS the rich man, bless her soul! women who don’t want to work but don’t fall into “so women’s rights are the problem” because, like… they very much wouldn’t have the lifestyle they have without women’s independence!

*smiles serenely* their wombs are so barren it’s kind of beautiful. I think—Jay is presented as the one to have the more traditional desires Sometimes. like wait shouldn’t we talk to other people and have jobs and date? and so I think there’s a potential for a rich exploration of… does she sometimes desire to be a mother? but I think with who Jay is as a person, that gets stamped out QUICK. Jay maybe had a pregnancy scare back when she was someone who had sex and that tripped her up forever. she can’t have a baby! she can barely take care of herself! that’s Matt’s job!! and Matt can’t take care of the baby because who would pay attention to Jay???

anyway, they no longer really… Have Sex. so that’s no longer an issue and in some ways it is a relief

it’s really interesting to me too how like, perennial bachelor is kind of an accepted thing but if you stay a single woman too long you’re a cat lady and it’s a bad thing. I like the idea that Matt & Jay are kind of seen as fucking Weird for this. they already are as boys but it just amps it up a bit more. the two strange girls causing havoc around the city who never settled down. oh well!

fanboy matts love this au and the other convos held on twitter abt it

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