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May 7, 1999 | The old men and the C-cups
BY ERIN J. AUBRY
(04/30/99)
Erin Aubry is right on the money about male boomers panting after younger women as a way to deny their own aging. As an 18-year-old girl, I find something very unsettling about geriatric guys' taste for teenage flesh.
Although it's only natural to be attracted to youth, the middle-aged and old men who pursue only young women are youth vampires. I loved Gloria Swanson's vampiric character in "Sunset Boulevard," but I've yet to see a man similarly portrayed -- probably because all the directors are 65-year-old men who are fucking 18-year-old starlets.
-- Lillie Wade
Let's face it, men age better most of the time. I'm in my early 30s and for me Sean Connery has always had gray hair. I find him sexy and debonair and wish it was me having an affair with him. If they've got what it takes, let them have it.
-- Ann Lyons
Chalk up one more article about women as victims. If women want movies about robust older women, why don't women producers produce more movies about robust older women? And why don't women pass over movies about virile older men in favor of movies about robust older women?
You can't buy equity by continually bashing men. Put your efforts and money where your mouth is, and lay off the male-bashing!
-- Keith Weber
I was with Aubry all the way, until this line popped out:
"As those of us in the real world know, age does not necessarily confer wisdom, especially when men are concerned."
She deliberately tells us that she tries not to be ageist, but is just as deliberately sexist in nearly the same breath. Tacking on that final clause takes a big chunk of her credibility away.
-- Jason Packer
Milwaukee
Aubry missed the point of the Warren Beatty-Halle Berry relationship in "Bulworth." While that romance was also May-December, it was skewed for a reason. Berry represented both the change in social mores since the '60s and a chance for regeneration. She had to be that young; a woman of Beatty's generation would not have been steeped in hip-hop culture.
-- Kiersten Conner
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