Today, we're putting the age gap under the microscope. Why is it that a 50-year-old man dating a 20-year-old is a punchline at best and a status symbol at worst, while women who dare to do the same get labelled, ridiculed, and given the nickname, “cougar."

Jas, Carly, and Jen dig into the Leonardo DiCaprio dating graph that broke the internet, the neuroscience of the prefrontal cortex and why "she's over 18" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, and the wildly different cultural responses to older men dating younger women versus older women doing the exact same thing. They unpack the power imbalances baked into big age gaps, the provider narrative that quietly normalises them, and why the word "cougar" says everything about how little patience society has for women doing whatever the hell they want.

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