Did you actually bother to read my comment?
I challenged a particular point raised by other posters, namely the idea that there would be an uproar if the genders were reversed. Much worse, IMO, when an older man is pursuing a younger female (for the obvious evolutionary reasons I alluded to). As an aside, I note there's plenty of uproar here and I do wonder whether there would be the same level of opprobrium if it were an older man chasing a much younger woman. Indeed, there have been several posts stating that Chad and Leah are well suited!
The brain is still adolescent until around 25 years of age. That would mean Veena and Jay are/were at least somewhat closer in brain development / maturity, whereas Leah (24 years old) who's at this "adolescent" stage was being pursued by a 49 year old. Yet, people are calling Chad, "decent". Calling Leah, both immature (blame) AND capable of knowing her own mind (giving her the same agency as a 49 year old with life experience). Equating Veena's behaviour to that of a predator. And, at the same time, suggesting that women don't face as much criticism.
With respect to Veena, I did not condone a relationship with a child. All I said was that various circumstances of this relationship appear to have been misrepresented by the production team. Based on expected norms in India, I would question the nature of the relationship as it's been portrayed. I suspect it's more of an online friendship, Jay must have been approached by the prodcution team, but in order to star in this show, they had to have a "romance" which meant Veena had to introduce him as her boyfriend and the cultural norms in India put marriage at the centre of the narrative. Good TV, but probably not close to reality. As I said, she used the word platonic more than once.