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⌈ Secret Post #5514 ⌋

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[Jane the Virgin]

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[Michael Nesmith/The Monkees]

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[video game series "To the Moon"]

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[Disenchantment]

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[Succession]

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[My Fair Lady]

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[Phineas and Ferb]

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[Robin Hood BBC]

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[Harry Potter]

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[My Fair Lady]

And he looks old enough to be her grandpa.

At least that is period appropriate. Big age gap romances were a thing in the Victorian-Edwardian era, because history is an unending tub of grossness.

Or because we are getting more narrow-minded and puritanical the more we pretend we aren't. And for "we" read "you". Two consenting adults is not "gross" unless you're mentally and emotionally twelve.

It depends on the dynamic presented in the source and in this case...

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tree_and_leaf - 2022-02-10 12:21 (UTC) - Expand

Not one of your best trolling efforts. 3/10

3/10 for the effort but 5/10 for the correct buzzwords utilised.

you really gotta start doing this about an era in which most women could at least vote, and there wasn't a truly ridiculous class division, anon.

wow that rock u live under must be really great for u to have spent so much time isolated under there as to be completely unaware of the concept of power differentials and social inequalities

You're right.

But men marrying much younger women was a lot shittier in a time when women had so little agency as it was.

Sis, get off that fossil dick and stop wasting your youth on ugly old men. Also, if you're in your 30's-50's and you don't feel like a weirdo for dating a 20 year old, something went wrong in your development.

"baaaaawwwww things are too puritanical now, why can't I date 15 year old girls anymore????"

The replies to this are such an eye-opener. I had so idea there were so many antis and little kids afraid of aging past 20 here. Including the one who began this subthread, because you'd have to be that kind of person to think he looks old enough to be her grandpa. They look more or less the same age.

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The actors are 21 years apart, but since it's based on Shaw's Pygmalion play, which is based on the myth, it makes sense to me.

It is probably because he can't come to terms with his own closet homosexuality. He even has a song about it.

Lol which one is that? I don't remember it well enough. XD

"Why can't a woman be more like a man"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doz5w2W-jAY

Oof yeah. Higgins is such a dick. Eliza would have been better off with Freddy at last. (Side note, I'm always amazed at how handsome Jeremy Brett was at that age.)

Freddy's a dumbass, but he's a sweet dumbass who seems to actually like her for who she is.

Shaw wrote a short story/essay combo "sequel" to the original play wherein he said that Eliza definitely married Freddy and they were happy as clams together so they're canon endgame as far as I'm concerned

I didn't know that!
nayrt

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(Anonymous) - 2022-02-10 14:33 (UTC) - Expand

It both frustrates and amuses me that the "canon" ending for this story depends so much on the adaptation, especially given Shaw's original intention.

I ship them in the sense of they get married, Eliza smothers him with a pillow on the wedding night (to everyone's relief) and she gets all his money and his house.

!!!! Fanfic!! Gimme.