The push to treat markèd age differences between adult partners as somehow wrong is a fairly recent phenomenon. That push is primarily based in the desire of older women to remove competition from younger women, and secondarily in the desire by younger men to remove competition from older men. The argument seems always to be “Ewww!”, which is just never very good.When I learned most had 10+ year difference between them it was such a shock!
The argument is usually "Hey, maybe men shouldn't be snatching women straight out of high school when they're all nice and impressionable so they can get themselves a bangmaid that wholly depends on them"The push to treat markèd age differences between adult partners as somehow wrong is a fairly recent phenomenon. That push is primarily based in the desire of older women to remove competition from younger women, and secondarily in the desire by younger men to remove competition from older men. The argument seems always to be “Ewww!”, which is just never very good.
Since I see the pseudo-moral objection raised when, for example, the woman has already been quite economically successful for a few years, you've plainly mischaracterized the argument.The argument is usually "Hey, maybe men shouldn't be snatching women straight out of high school when they're all nice and impressionable so they can get themselves a bangmaid that wholly depends on them"
As I said,Calling it gross is just a lot easier though, because yeah, that is super gross
The argument seems always to be “Ewww!”, which is just never very good.