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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Subject: Re: Age-ism and the gay community
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.150244.15849@spdcc.com>
- Organization: insert anything here
- References: <1992Dec20.123132.19229@reed.edu> <1992Dec21.202931.19993@osf.org> <1992Dec22.031736.26965@spdcc.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:02:44 GMT
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- dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >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.
-
- Well, funny you should mention that...
-
- I'm 30, Fred's 50. I don't know about taboo, I haven't
- noticed any strange reaction from ANYONE with my relationship
- (excluding some dimwits on IRC who ask the perenial stoopid
- questions e.g., "but you don't have anything in common!",
- or this gem: "but what if one of you dies first?" - the mind reels),
- *INCLUDING* my parents... which I find surprising when I stop
- to think about it.
-
- At the time things started to get "hot and heavy",
- I had a little concern about getting involved with someone
- 20 years older than me, but that didn't last long. What's
- really funny is that it really doesn't FEEL like a 20-year age
- difference.
-
- >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. :-)
-
- Well, that part is interesting --- I'm finding myself much
- more interested in thinking of my retirement now (I just found
- out yesterday my dad is retiring from truck driving effective
- Thursday) than I think I would ever have before.
-
- BBC
-