# Doug Hutchison, 51, marries 16 year old "country singer" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 22, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434 "2011-06-22T15:07:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/61 "2011-06-24T14:55:42Z")
I saw this in the newspaper complete with clingy picture and agree that for a 16-year-old she looks like she’s been rode hard and put away wet. She’s bony and leathery in a way that teenagers should not be. Also, is it just me or does the phrase “We are very much in love” usually translate as “We’ll be divorced by Christmas”? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/62 "2011-06-24T15:06:01Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > It’s possible for the marriage to work. Ariel Durant was fifteen when she married Will Durant and that marriage lasted, but he was “only” thirteen years older than her. And to think- he was her third husband. (Okay, I can’t back that up.) Anderson Cooper, who’s been on a bitchy roll of late, [had words for](http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/22/the-ridiculist-hutchison-stodden-critics/)a conservative blogger who took his way-tongue-in-cheek words seriously (then denied doing so). ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/63 "2011-06-24T15:15:53Z")
I don’t want to defend this marriage (then again I never heard of these two before this thread) but do any of these 30+ years difference in ages marriages ever work.?I was thinking of Fred Astaire at age 80 marrying 35 year old jockey Robyn Smyth. Apparently at the time a lot of Astaire’s friends were aghast, they thought Smyth was only marrying him for his money. But when he died seven years later, they had time changed their minds , feeling she genuinely loved and cared for him. But she was 35 ( old enough to be this girls’s mother) and had a career of her own in a male-dominated sport. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/64 "2011-06-24T17:26:07Z")
Used up? What the hell? I think she looks pretty. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/65 "2011-06-24T17:41:04Z")
Skank down to the bone. “Rode hard and put away wet” seems to be the description used up-thread I’d agree with most. Wouldn’t even wank to her, much less do her. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/66 "2011-06-24T17:54:08Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Used up? What the hell? I think she looks pretty. 😕 Clearly she doesn’t look bad, but the obvious surgery and over use of makeup are things we associate with an older woman trying to look young so that is the impression she ends up giving. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/67 "2011-06-24T18:32:06Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > No way is that grown-ass woman 16. Okay, this post made me finally give in and Google. Oh gods, I literally laughed out loud when I saw her photos. Bitch is like 30! Come on now. I feel dirty linking to [Perez Hilton’s blog, but seriously.](http://perezhilton.com/2011-06-21-is-courtney-stodden-really-16) > [@Crazyhorse](#): > > She turns 17 in about 2 months. Her apparently authentic marriage license is posted [here](http://www.radaronline.com/sites/radaronline.com/files/Courtney%20Alexis%20Stoddard%20Marriage%20License%20Radaronline.pdf). (PDF) Clark County? Please, I got married in Clark County and my identification info has been more rigorously investigated while buying cigarettes than it was when applying for my marriage license. I filled out a one-page form and flashed my ID (maybe, don’t even remember) to some old lady at a desk, coughed up something like $50, and we were done. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/68 "2011-06-24T18:55:45Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Used up? What the hell? I think she looks pretty. 😕 That chick has bad hair, bad makeup, and looks like one of the retired Barker’s Beauties and possibly has had as much plastic surgery. She’s hideous, and I’d never guess she was 16. No youth and beauty there. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/69 "2011-06-24T18:59:05Z")
Wow. You know, the word “skank” is so overused it’s almost lost it’s meaning. Almost. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/70 "2011-06-24T19:06:42Z")
> [@SCSimmons](#): > > It’s a hidden link. Click on her left tit in the picture of her wearing nothing but an American flag. (If nothing happens, that means you’re gay. Sorry! No timeless energy of beauty and thought for you!) > > The most interesting thing on that page from where I sit: > > > [@Courtney's poll of the week](#): > > > > Who does Courtney Stodden resemble most? > > > > ``` > > Pamela Sue Anderson > > Christina Aguilera > > Denise Richards > > Sharon Tate > > Farrah Fawcett > > Shakira > > > > ``` > > :dubious: I saw the pic of her wrapped in the American flag, and I wanted to vote “Abbie Hoffman.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/71 "2011-06-24T19:09:42Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > And to think- he was her third husband. (Okay, I can’t back that up.) > > Anderson Cooper, who’s been on a bitchy roll of late, [had words for](http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/22/the-ridiculist-hutchison-stodden-critics/)a conservative blogger who took his way-tongue-in-cheek words seriously (then denied doing so). Your link went to the original RidicuList. [Here’s the followup](http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/24/the-ridiculist-daily-caller/) on the Daily Caller. I didn’t know AC was so funny. He needs to work on not tripping up his delivery, though. ---
**Author:** ![Romeo\_and\_Whatsherface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Romeo\_and\_Whatsherface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Romeo_and_Whatsherface)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/72 "2011-06-24T19:25:05Z")
Where to begin on all the problems of this “marriage”? First, at 16, a young person can’t intellectually grasp who she’ll be in 10 years, let alone forever. No frame of reference. There’s a whole lotta changin’ going on between 16 and when the brain finishes maturing, around age 25. HE may remain fairly stable mentally, but she will be growing, changing, and becoming more independent emotionally, no matter how superficial she is. I don’t have the cite, but I read last fall that marriages where there is an age difference of 9 years or more have twice the divorce rate of marriages where the couples have 8 or fewer years between them. Apparently, one of the predictors of marital success is how much the couple has in common, and a couple with nearly two generations between them don’t have the same cultural frame of reference. It’s pretty tough to find enough in common to make such a marriage work. If this marriage should last, when he’s 70, she’ll be 35. How many 35-year-olds do you know who are wildly attracted to 70-year-olds? But WTH, he thinks he’s lucky–he’s got a pubescent vixen, and she thinks she’s lucky–she’s got a man with some social status, and in a few months or years, the divorce will be another coup. Nothing will help her lack of talent, though. There’s nothing romantic about this marriage. It’s just sad, sad, sad. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/73 "2011-06-24T22:00:42Z")
The more people I see throw themselves into (theoretically) lifelong monogamy, the more convinced I am that it’s just plain dumb. You’re in love? Fine. Be in love. Have the romantic candlelight dinners. Have the afternoon walks on the beach. Have the long, meaningful discussions. Heck, have sex. C’mon, this isn’t friggin’ Saudi Arabia. Buy a pack of condoms and do it. You want acceptance? From who, your parents? Snooty co-workers? Rush Limbaugh? You should know by now that there’s no pleasing those cretins. And what exactly have they done for you lately? You’re going to have to tell them to take a long walk on a short flower path at some point; the sooner you get it over with, the better. You’re a Christian? Well, if you haven’t noticed, you’re in America, where that translates to “right-wing, mainstream, doesn’t like to help others, wants to get rich, pro-military”. Not monogamous. Yes, Christians believe in holy matrimony. That means that if you’re not living a holy, pure, divine, pure, clean virtuous, sacred, pure, angelic, pure, pure, pure life, you have absolutely no effin’ business tying the knot. That goes for BOTH members; God doesn’t go for halfway measures. It’s in the Bible. Look it up. You’re in it for the money/sex? Okay, golddigging 101: 1. The guy has to be _rich_, and 2. the guy has to be near death (i.e. _old_). Otherwise it’s not going to work. Even if you divorce him and get half of what he pulled in during the marriage, well, half of a hill of beans is a somewhat smaller hill of beans. As for completely legal sex with a minor…dude, you _do_ realize that 1. she’s going to get older, and 2. she’s going to want you to contribute something to the relationship? Yeah, women don’t go for worthless sex-obsessed parasites. They’re weird like that. Eh. They’ll be separated soon enough. Yeah, it’s sad that they’re going to drive each other nuts in the coming months, but some people just gotta learn the hard way. Having dealt with a lot of people like that, I gotta say that it beats the alternative. P.S.: “Will never do porn?” Okay, unless she’s secretly hiding proof of the Unified Field Theory, limiting her options sounds like a straight _very bad idea_. I’m thinking she’ll change her tune somewhat once her, a ha, country music career is over. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/74 "2011-06-24T22:21:45Z")
This guy is such an obscure actor, I don’t understand why this whole thing is newsworthy. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/75 "2011-06-24T22:24:34Z")
Because hes 51 and shes 16, it would be just as big news if he wasn’t a minor actor. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/76 "2011-06-24T23:18:44Z")
Meh, when Henry VIII married Catherine Howard he had just turned 50 and she was around 17. That worked out fine. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/77 "2011-06-25T00:18:24Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Man, neither of them looks their age - they BOTH look like they’re in their 30s… This. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/78 "2011-06-25T01:18:55Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#): > > Meh, when Henry VIII married Catherine Howard he had just turned 50 and she was around 17. That worked out fine. At least Henry had the good sense not to tweet about it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/79 "2011-06-25T01:44:57Z")
What an unfortunate looking girl. I suppose, though, it’s good to get that first disastrous marriage out of the way. I expect there are a bunch of “well, my grandma got married when she was 14 and grandpa was 30 and they just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary” stories that could be trotted out for just such an occasion. But I don’t think we’ll see this couple on whatever replaces Willard Scott’s Smuckers Jar 50 years from now. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-country-singer/586434/80 "2011-06-25T02:18:59Z")
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