[grania]

I have HS classmates who when they started dating at 16 dated guys in their mid-20s with their parents blessing. Two of them married these guys their first year out of HS and have been happily married ever since. Back then, where I was from, a girl did not go to college unless she had a reason to (teaching, nursing, etc). There was nothing wrong with a girl in her teens dating and for some marrying older guys who had established jobs, were settled and stable, and would provide a comfortable, stable life for their mate.

This is cultural appropriation at its worst. These gaggles of women in some cases are embellishing each others perceptions of reality. Some of the worst femnazis would be treating someone who had dressed up as a gal and used the Women's Rest Room as a visionary.

Contemporary culture is totally messed up. It's inevitable that this would at some point spin out of control.

[odawg]

Times can change fast, especially when the MSM turns its guns on a topic, and then is aided by Hannity.

I watched a few minutes of a Clint Eastwood movie last night entitled “True Crime”. The blurb I saw has Eastwood’s character being run off from a job, I believe, because “The girl I was with was the boss’s daughter and I thought she was eighteen.” Eastwood was 69 when he made the move.

[LaineyDee]

I dated much older men when I was in high school because they guys my age were too immature. There wasn't much prospect of going to college back in the late 60's unless your family had money...so you're right when you say that most girls were searching for mature, established men. I knew several young women who married with their parent's blessings at age 14.

With that said...our culture has definitely changed. I was very mature and expected to be responsible at 12 when I began baby-sitting. I got my first full-time job at 15 and most of the guys I knew worked construction, baled hay or worked in their Dad's offices during summer breaks. Nowadays, I wouldn't trust most 25yr olds to babysit my pet turtle. smh

[38special]

They don’t understand Alabama and the deep south. Girls marry young and have babies like they’re supposed to.

[RatRipper]

I have HS classmates who when they started dating at 16 dated guys in their mid-20s with their parents blessing.

When my ex and I got married, I was 25 and she was 19. We dated about a year, were married 19 years, and have been divorced 16. My brother went to HS with her uncle and aunt. Her parents and family on both sides still love me, as does she, who has admitted in the last six months to me that she made a huge mistake. We have two grown sons.

[hecticskeptic]

I hadn’t heard anything much about Moore’s wife and so I decided to check... Wikipedia says that they married in 1985. He was born in 1947 so this means he was 38 when he got married. Wiki further says that he is 14 years older than his wife... in other words, she was 24.