FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
If you go back as recently as the 90s and watch shows like Seinfeld or Loveline, age gap relationships are not really portrayed as a bad thing. If 25+ year old man was with a 17 year old, he was not automatically considered a "creep", and on the flipside a woman in her 20s or 30s was not automatically labelled a goldigger for being with a man in his 50s or 60s.
This new attitude that has emerged towards age gap relationships, shame, disgust, calling the man a "groomer", a predator/pedo, or calling the woman a golddigger, is actually a recent sentiment in our culture that seems to be born out of the modern feminism and gyno-centric sentiments in general. It's very obvious to me that it's nothing more than an attempt by older woman to eliminate younger woman out of the competition via shame.
The most annoying part of this is that now many men seem to share the same mentality. If a 35 year old man wants to sleep with an 18 year old, other men will literally call him a pedo. It's total nonsense. I was wondering if any of the older members have noticed this. It's even more apparent the farther you go back, in the 70s for instance this sort of thing was actually common, and the idea of a 20+ year old man with a 16 year old wasn't even questioned as far as I can tell.
Someone might try to make the argument that fictional shows are a good source for this claim but quite the contrary, one of the best ways to get a sense of our cultural values over time is to go back and watch media from different time periods, especially when they're not even the subject of it but merely an incidental part of the story. And in the case of Loveline for instance it was with real callers.
This new attitude that has emerged towards age gap relationships, shame, disgust, calling the man a "groomer", a predator/pedo, or calling the woman a golddigger, is actually a recent sentiment in our culture that seems to be born out of the modern feminism and gyno-centric sentiments in general. It's very obvious to me that it's nothing more than an attempt by older woman to eliminate younger woman out of the competition via shame.
The most annoying part of this is that now many men seem to share the same mentality. If a 35 year old man wants to sleep with an 18 year old, other men will literally call him a pedo. It's total nonsense. I was wondering if any of the older members have noticed this. It's even more apparent the farther you go back, in the 70s for instance this sort of thing was actually common, and the idea of a 20+ year old man with a 16 year old wasn't even questioned as far as I can tell.
Someone might try to make the argument that fictional shows are a good source for this claim but quite the contrary, one of the best ways to get a sense of our cultural values over time is to go back and watch media from different time periods, especially when they're not even the subject of it but merely an incidental part of the story. And in the case of Loveline for instance it was with real callers.