Post #3897164
2026-07-17 20:55 UTC
@pseudonym@mastodon.online @MissConstrue@mefi.social @oldguycrusty@mastodon.world I was just thinking about the fact that a LOT of Hollywood stuff is wish fulfillment for ugly old white men (UOWM). All the plots where a UOWM (or a marginally good looking old white man) is the love interest/partner of a woman half his age and at least twice as good looking. Even movies I love, like Sabrina.
*Sigh* Just marinated in it is right.
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social 2026-07-17 21:36
@akamran@indieweb.social @pseudonym@mastodon.online @oldguycrusty@mastodon.world Like...nobody thought me at 15 dating a 30 year old man was weird. Nobody. My mother was thrilled to see me go, and let him move me to a whole other side of the country. (I'd just come back from convent boarding school where I'd graduated with the equiv of AS degree) It wasn't until he took me to a party at Texas Instruments, when the wife of someone in the csuite was very concerned, and she is how I ended up with a scholarship to go live and be educated at an all women's university. A kindness for which I will be eternally grateful, and why I help fund a scholarship at TWU.