Re: Writing from the POV of older people than one's self

In article <m4GdneL0kL9Sb93ZRVny3g@xxxxxxxxx>,
<wendyg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <123ugkb6qmkb5e1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, wswears@xxxxxxx (Bill
Swears) wrote:

some point in 300 years that shallow desire will be enacted, and
picking young fruit off the vine will seem so very easy...

I don't know any older people who think attracting much younger people is
easy. Do you?

It's part of a stereotype of the lives of very wealthy or politically
powerful older men, and there seems to be evidence that this is true.
Politicians who want to have affairs with their pretty young interns
seem to find opportunities regularly.

The two times in my life I have had a crush on someone much older
than myself, there was also a substantial status asymmetry in
the subculture we were in (a chess master in one case, a
martial arts master in the other). I find this embarrassing, but
there it is. Positive attention from someone who outranks you
is a powerful attractant.

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@xxxxxxxxxx
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