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[quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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