No Stigma of Women Over 40 Dating Younger Men
Links to Yahoo! news stories make me want to retch. Not only do they need to be converted into clean URLs, but they die after about a week or so.
With that rant over, and the URL "cleaned", this story presents a chink in the armour that is my rabid Crittendenism: “There seems to be no stigma now for dating men a few years younger. Twenty years ago, women didn't have the jobs. Today they have the jobs, they have the money, they can call the shots.” This is in reference to women in their 40s, alas, not their late 20s or early 30s, many of whom, for me, are ASOWs. (ASOW is an acronym I coined, and stands for Attractive Slightly-Older Women.) But it's interesting, because I had argued (along Crittendenonian lines) that since women tend to date older men, that the supply of older men is not merely finite, but decreasing, whereas since men tend to prefer to date younger women, their supply is almost infinite, because there will always be women younger than them. I pause to quote from a movie my generation, watched either in high school or in early college, Dazed and Confused. Talking about his unwillingness to worry about his inability to graduate from high school, the Matthew McConaughey character says “That's what I like about these high school girls: I keep getting older, they stay the same age.” (It's properly done with a hand motion that further creepifies the quote.)
The magazine article in question appears here, and I will read and comment on it in this post a little later.
