Posted on 08/15/2018 11:16:26 AM PDT by C19fan
If you haven’t watched “Nanette,” Hannah Gadsby’s fearless comedy special on Netflix, do that now. (We’ll wait.)
In it, Ms. Gadsby takes on the fragility of masculinity — and at one point drills into Pablo Picasso, who, well into his 40s, had an affair with a teenage girl.
Ms. Gadsby, who has a degree in art history, recounted how Picasso justified the relationship by claiming that he and the girl, Marie-Thérèse Walter, were both in their prime. Seething, Ms. Gadsby said: “A 17-year-old girl is never in her prime. Ever! I am in my prime.” She is 40.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I knew a guy who had lived in a remote part of Kentucky where 18-year old girls chasing 50-year old men was apparently a “thing”.
The wedding of the season in his town was between the 18-year old star of the girl’s high-school basketball team and her 46-year old coach.
My friend was divorced and in his late 40’s at the time.
The young local chickies were all driving pretty strong to the hoop.
He begged his employer to transfer him to another part of the country.
When he remarried he told me “My wife now is 35, and I can barely keep up with her!”
WTF???
If the brainless bimbo thinks I have any use for Kerouac, she can toddle off to some leftard and leave me the hell alone.
I take it then that your favorite Kerouac passage is
“THE END”?
Never got that far ...
Someone somewhere has a favorite Kerouac passage, I guess.
Just consider that this is what passes for an attractive feature in certain circles.
It makes one wonder whether we are a single species.
It's not even that complicated. Just have a look at Rosie O'Donnell or Roseanne Barr.
Daddy issues. Plenty of young women out there, if you happen to come across them and have something that resonates.
Well, there is the old adage, get them young and train them right.
[ducking for cover]
And then someone threw a glass of cold water on her. She looked around for a moment perplexedly and then simply said "Oh."
I hope they didn’t spend a lot of money on that study...:)
or they are looking for either a father figure (cause they have dad issues) or someone they are hoping they won't be stuck with for too long and they can inherit a passel of money and still be young enough to enjoy it..
My wife and I have an understanding. I don't date 17 year olds, or anyone else, and she doesn't kill me in my sleep and bury me in our back yard with our dead dog.
Can't speak for other women, but that works for me. I'm 54, my guy is almost 70. The guys his age say the women their age are too old, and they'd be right. Let themselves go, for the most part.
The guys my age seem ... well, not too young, but ones who would be comparing me to younger women. Maybe unfair of me to presume, but that being in the back of my mind would not be good for a relationship.
Back when Slick Willy got caught using Monica Lewinsky to relieve his urges in the Oval Office, Congressman Dick Armey was asked what he would do if he were in Clinton's position. His response:
"If I were, I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife say: 'How do I reload this thing?'"
But in Alabama, it will get you disqualified from the Senate.
-PJ
Sorry I don’t recall the name of the town.
This guy got his transfer, and the last time I spoke to him
he was living just outside of Cleveland.
Not complicated.
Men like an attractive fertile body. Women like a powerful wallet.
The looks/fertility peak early and fade quickly. The power/money take a little time to acquire, thus the peak for this is further in a mans life.
At 75, all I can do now is look, I just don’t remember why.
Take the word of a 73 years old man, women peak between 28 and 35.
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