[ SECRET POST #2423 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2423 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Amanda Palmer]


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03.
[Breaking Bad]


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04.
[Free]


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[Urdnot Wrex (Mass Effect)]


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06.
[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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[My Chemical Romance]


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[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]


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[Twin Peaks, Audrey Horne and Agent Dale Cooper]


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[Johnny Weir, American figure skater]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Arrested Development]












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Comments

[kallanda_lee]

I think it really depends on the relationship, the actual gap, and the age of the partners. I think there are some situations where even though one partner is technically an adult, they are still very young mentally and there's just a huge discrepancy in experience which can make the relationship really unequal in many ways.

[helenadax]

I agree that usually that kind of relationship is unequal, but some people wants that. Some young women can feel safer with an older man, like there's someone taking care of her, because some people just like let someone take control. Or there are people attracted to power and success. And these relationships work as well (or as bad) as any other relationship.

[kallanda_lee]

Some people want that and some people are just unaware of how imbalanced it is because they're young an inexperienced and don't know better. Again, it depends.

I think there is a world of difference between an 18-year old with a 30-year old, compared to a 28-year old and a 40-year old, even though it's the same age gap.

I think that why Audrey/Dale rubs some people the wrong way is because she's basically a high school girl, and culturally that puts her still more in the realm of a child than that of an adult. I think that, had she been just two yours older, but was working an adult job people would have felt much differently.

Personally it never bothered me so much because Twin Peaks felt more like a sort of Alternate Universe to me, and because how those characters acted, but I think in some settings the same age gap would bother me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, agree, really depends. I've been witness to some dodgy age-gap relationships where male+older means he's ridden roughshod over his younger female partner, and not in a good way.

At least one of them wised up and complained they always wanted her spreadeagled and still on the bed, and that got annoying after a while. Dunno if her taste in older men improved, or she went for a younger one.