Anonymous wrote: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.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1003494.page

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 wrote:What if the younger woman is a ladder-climbing psychopath, just too lazy to earn her professional advancement the hard way?

Then they deserve each other, but no one’s respect.

What if the younger woman is a ladder-climbing psychopath, just too lazy to earn her professional advancement the hard way?

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.

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You guys are pretty harsh for not knowing any details or anything about them.

I used to read his chat every week. He talked about himself and his beliefs/opinions a lot. A LOT.

He also never missed a chance to say how attractive the Rib was. Anyone see a picture of her?

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.

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You guys are pretty harsh for not knowing any details or anything about them.

I used to read his chat every week. He talked about himself and his beliefs/opinions a lot. A LOT.

He also never missed a chance to say how attractive the Rib was. Anyone see a picture of her?

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You guys are pretty harsh for not knowing any details or anything about them.

I used to read his chat every week. He talked about himself and his beliefs/opinions a lot. A LOT.

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.

This undermines him. He's a cliche. He's a disappointment. He has bad boundaries. End of story.

It's been years. His ex-wife is probably over it. So should we be. Who cares.

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Anonymous wrote:The 'rule' comes from a play, THE MOON IS BLUE, about a May-December romance. The youngest a woman should be is half the man's age plus 7. (67x.5) + 7 = 41.

I hope his wife divorced him - it's clear he's as big a dog as the rest of the men who cheat. And you're right; men don't leave without having a soft landing prepared. Women leave because they are unhappy.

He didn't cheat on his wife.

I assumed that she left him (because she didn't want to spend her remaining time on earth dealing with a self-regarding manchild) and he turned to the nearest woman willing to soothe his ego)

That's what I think too.

Lot of assumptions of people we don’t know here.

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?

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/

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Anonymous wrote:You can be smart and witty and small and weak and broken at the same time. When a smart young woman hooks up with a guy like that it is because she is needing something:Money, affirmation, parenting..... and a man his age is seeking much the same: affirmation, denial of his mortality and the opportunity to parent in a way.

Many people are drawn to their mate because the mate fulfills a need. In and of itself, is that a bad thing?

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.

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Anonymous wrote:The 'rule' comes from a play, THE MOON IS BLUE, about a May-December romance. The youngest a woman should be is half the man's age plus 7. (67x.5) + 7 = 41.

I hope his wife divorced him - it's clear he's as big a dog as the rest of the men who cheat. And you're right; men don't leave without having a soft landing prepared. Women leave because they are unhappy.

He didn't cheat on his wife.

I assumed that she left him (because she didn't want to spend her remaining time on earth dealing with a self-regarding manchild) and he turned to the nearest woman willing to soothe his ego)

That's what I think too.

Lot of assumptions of people we don’t know here.