A link to a blog post of Huffpo
detailing a 59 year old woman’s dating experience with a 55 year old man. They had been dating, making meals, going on bike rides when they decided to spend a weekend together to take it to the next level.
All weekend long they slept naked next to each other, cuddled, but never had sex.
On Monday, she called and asked him why, and his response was
“Your body is too wrinkly,” he said without a pause. “I have spoiled myself over the years with young women. I just can’t get excited with you. I love your energy and your laughter. I like your head and your heart. But, I just can’t deal with your body.”
I call bullshit. BULLSHIT.
I know men. I work with men every single day, I’ve been married forever, and before then I might have talked to one or two.
No man would spend a weekend naked with some woman he was interested in and not screw her because she was too wrinkly. None. He might dump her on Monday, he might turn out the lights, he may lay back and think of England, he may change his phone number and move to a cabin in the woods, but he is not going to turn down the possibility of getting laid at that point.
Now…perhaps he had an ED problem, and a convenient ego saving response is to blame it on the woman, that I could maybe believe. (Dialog is still BS.)
But more likely this is a woman who makes her living by writing/speaking/mentoring and she knows that this would be a hot button topic with plenty of ‘juice.’
There are a multitude of issues out there, and many wrongs being done, and Lord knows being an older woman/man can be tough in our youth-worshipping society, but this flavor of “I overcame being a victim and opened my heart to the universe and buy my book/go to my seminar/like me on Facebook” feminism drives me crazy.
Especially when the dialog and scene writes like something a woman would think would happen, not what a man would actually do.
So, in summary, I call bullshit.