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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Age-ism and the gay community
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.031736.26965@spdcc.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 03:17:36 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Dec22.031736.26965
- References: <1992Dec18.021033.13179@bsu-ucs> <1992Dec20.123132.19229@reed.edu> <1992Dec21.202931.19993@osf.org>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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- In article <1992Dec21.202931.19993@osf.org> coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren) writes:
- >As I soon found out, he was actually 21, and as I was 30, the
- >difference between our ages was not much greater than the difference
- >between mine and John's (John and I had been lovers for a little under
- >3 years at the time, and I had never thought of him as being a whole
- >lot older than I). It still felt to me like he was considerably my
- >junior. (We're still friends, BTW, and at 37 he should seem like a
- >contemporary, but because of that history he feels "younger" in a way
- >that Steve Dyer, say, does not.)
-
- Well, how should we go about to "fix" this, er, problem? Eh? :-)
-
- To put my own two cents into this discussion, my lover is 10 years older
- than I am; we met when I was 23 and he was 33, and it will be 14 years
- later this coming March. I think bright kids are mature in certain ways
- which make it perfectly natural to seek out people older than themselves
- as peers, friends and therefore as lovers, too. This was certainly going on
- with me in my early 20's. Admittedly, a gap of 10 years might not have
- as much a taboo as twice that, but to be honest, I didn't notice this
- much at all. Of course, I didn't have a bunch of age-peers clucking their
- tongues at me, either. Which is not to say that even now, the age difference
- can be completely ignored. For example, I am still somewhat footloose,
- probably more than I ought to be, whereas annuities and mutual funds for
- maximizing his return for his retirement plan have seized my lover's
- imagination. At age 47, age 65 comes upon you very quickly. Or so I'm
- told. :-)
-
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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