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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-02-23 03:55 pm

[ SECRET POST #2609 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2609 ⌋

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Re: Question about age differences

(Anonymous) 2014-02-24 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
you don't see things like systematic abuse, coercion, unhealthy power dynamics etc as a problem? these are all endemic to the situation of an old man who targets young women.
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Re: Question about age differences

[personal profile] starphotographs 2014-02-24 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe I think, you know, that those actual problems you just listed are the problems. Not how many times anyone may or may not have been around the sun.

People not being able to take things on a case-by-case basis is also a problem, dude. Bad relationships are bad relationships. Age differences are age differences. The former is a problem no matter who it happens to, so why not focus on that?
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Re: Question about age differences

[personal profile] gondremark 2014-02-24 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Hear hear.

Re: Question about age differences

(Anonymous) 2014-02-24 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
+1
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Re: Question about age differences

[personal profile] nyxelestia 2014-02-24 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Please note the if they're both having fun and making it work portion. Not one, but both of them. If one of them isn't having fun or is somehow suffering from the relationship, I'm pretty sure most people would see that relationship as a bad thing, whether the age gap is two years or two decades.

Re: Question about age differences

(Anonymous) 2014-02-24 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
When I was in my late twenties, I dated a man in his fifties.

There was no abuse. No coercion. Both people involved have chronic disabilities.

We had a lot of fun. We'd probably still be together if his caretaker hadn't taken offense to the fact we *gasp* were intimate and gave him the "it's her or me" ultimatum. Since I couldn't take care of him (I have help taking care of myself, but he didn't have any other options at the time), we had to break things off.

It's not helpful to paint everything with the same brush.