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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the ick factor is in proportion to age difference. My Bil increasingly has dated younger and younger women. His current gf is 20ish and he is nearing 40. I remember what being 20 was like and there is such an extreme power imbalance here. I feel the ick factor on her part too but I feel it much more strongly on him because he is so much older and should know better. It grosses me out and I avoid him as far as I can without making things awkward. I think he is emotionally messed up and is [b]attracted to these young women for their youth and beauty. T[/b]he women are naive and he historically always finds something wrong with their character without seeming to have much desire to look at himself. [/quote]Yeah, it's terrible to want those things in a woman.[/quote]

No, it’s not terrible to value those things but you are taking the sentence out of context.

Do you have a daughter or niece? Can you imagine her coming home at 19/20 and explaining she has a 40 year old boyfriend. There isn’t a part of you that isn’t going to go “what’s up with that!?”. The reality is that 99% of men in that dynamic are not seeking to be honorable in their relationship with that young woman. That is a scummy component. [/quote]

It depends. Is she coming home with a 40 year old doctor or professor? If so, sounds good. She should lock him down.

Ellen Degeneres is 15 years older than her wife and no one ever complains here about that. [/quote]

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