Weingarten/Manteuffel
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Anonymous
Lot of assumptions of people we don’t know here. |
Anonymous
Healthy people choose a partner not a parent/dependent. People are entitled to do what they want but it isn’t healthy. They’d be better served sorting out their issues. |
Anonymous
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Still grossed out by the relationship, but the man can write. What a story.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/09/30/feature/a-terrible-crime-a-patient-waiting-for-a-transplant-the-tragic-redemptive-journey-of-one-heart/ |
Anonymous
Bingo! You guys are pretty harsh for not knowing any details or anything about them. That being said, I read his chat yesterday for the first time in a long time and after reading part of his intro, I immediately hit the google and ended up here! But what does their relationship have to do with any of us?!!? Presumably they're in love or at least very happy together. What's wrong with that? |
Anonymous
| It's been years. His ex-wife is probably over it. So should we be. Who cares. |
Anonymous
| This undermines him. He's a cliche. He's a disappointment. He has bad boundaries. End of story. |
Anonymous
| Ugh. I had forgotten about this. I sadly gave up my 15+ year WaPo subscription after the Toles Halloween party article, and I can’t say I regret it. I used to enjoy Weingarten, but he proved himself a gross old man like so many others. I lost respect for Manteuffel as well. |
Anonymous
I used to read his chat every week. He talked about himself and his beliefs/opinions a lot. A LOT. |
Anonymous
He also never missed a chance to say how attractive the Rib was. Anyone see a picture of her? |
Anonymous
No, but he always described her as petite. No surprise he’s now with a woman whose breasts are so big that she wrote a column about it. Young, well endowed, mentor/mentee...so sad and stereotypical. Ick. |
Anonymous
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Gene acts like he totally gets and is on board with feminist critiques of men behaving badly. But COME ON. There is such a huge power imbalance between a well-connected Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist mentor and the half-his-age young mentee (who was literally a college freshmen younger than his beloved daughter when their professional relationship began).
I find Rachel's choice odd, but I also see it in context. Gene, however, I see as both hypocritical and predatory. But his ego will never, ever allow him to see this, even if it is plain as day. As for all his years worth of talk about how much beauty and sexiness he finds specifically in older women (ahem, his age)? He certainly doth protest too much, didn't he? It was a now embarrassingly transparent ruse to appeal to the demographics of his largely female readership. So let's pause and mourn the Gene we thought he was-- the one who respected the sacred boundaries between established mentor and inexperienced mentee, who looked at women the age of his daughter (and younger!) with a sincere paternal affection, who lived up to his claims about his attitudes toward women-- and then walk away and never come back. Because this ain't him and he's not worth our time. He's got enough accolades that he doesn't need our attention, too. |
Anonymous
| What if the younger woman is a ladder-climbing psychopath, just too lazy to earn her professional advancement the hard way? |
Anonymous
Then they deserve each other, but no one’s respect. |
Anonymous
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Weingarten: I won't humor you anymore at https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weingarten-i-wont-humor-you-anymore/2021/09/21/8c6e2ce6-0bf8-11ec-aea1-42a8138f132a_story.html
So he's retiring his humor column, and I thought you all might have things to say about it. Speculation is that he was forced about because of the whole Indian food thing. |
Anonymous
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1003494.page |