29/31 by Garfunkel and Oates

Garfunkel and Oates play the same woman, 2 years apart. Kate plays the 29 year old version of the woman, Riki plays the 31 year old.

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[ladymacbeth260]

Oh god i'm 29, this song scares the pants off me.

[MxMagpie]

And women can't...? Bit harsh.

[MxMagpie]

Well that's some sexist pseudo-science bullshit right there. Have fun with that.

[MrMonkeybat]

But true. The biological instincts for reproduction we call sexual attraction and love, naturally attract you to potentially fertile partners. Testes last longer than ovaries, so men are instinctively attracted to younger women, while the women are attracted to the men which have most money, who are older but no less fertile for that.

[MeisVlk]

i like the chorus :D

[kayper54]

Oh, man, how right you are. And there are examples of this all around us. I know women who are older than I am (by more than 2 or 3 years) whose kids are younger than my youngest! HOW do they DO it??? I mean, I'm counting down the days to my "empty nest" and yet I have these contemporary-age friends who are still scheduling play-dates for their preschoolers. Go fig....

[FixedatZero23]

Now i know why barney stinson only sleeps with women under 30

[DaleBenGot]

"tiny drop"? I know women in their 40s who still think they have time to find a husband and start (!) having children. Women seem willfully blind to biological realities... Unfortunate, as false thinking leads to unwise decisions and attitudes.

[kayper54]

Scary thing is...? I KNOW women who actually feel this way. It has a tiny drop of truth to it. ;-)

[Dylan Chen]

That's the spirit!

[jamiedrawing]

Too be fair, I think the 31-year-old's message is that if your pants come off more at 29 then you might be better off at 31. I may be missing the point but I don't think so :)