Dumbest Column I Read All Year*...

See here.

I try to imagine what people would say if I turned up with a guy who was 26 years younger than me. None of it is polite.
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I had dinner not long ago with a friend who is eager (OK, maybe desperate) to find a (rich) guy. She got more and more depressed as each age-appropriate man walked in with someone who was literally half his age.


"Nurse and purse," I said to her, trying to cheer her up. She didn't laugh. And she's a beauty, by the way, who had — until now — gone from one desirable guy to the next.

And then she turned 50. And even though she is still tall and blonde and beautiful, she's now competing with 30-year-olds in a city (Los Angeles) and culture (Hollywood) that prizes youth more than intelligence and beauty more than wit.

Maybe, she needs to stop hanging with the physically insecure women seeking rich men, who "improve" their looks artificially, and perhaps at the cost of their own health too.

Then ... get a hobby of your own now that the kids are grown and you're an empty-nester. Learn what the phrase MYOB means, and don't speculate on other people's age-differences in their private relationships?

So what's he doing with a 27-year-old yoga instructor? Nothing against yoga instructors; I adore mine. She's 40 and is a talented actress and writer. Her boyfriend, a director, is 48. Great.

Besides, she's busy plucking at the specks in other people's eyes, and assuming she'd be rejected on age too...

Say she's 65 58. 58 minus 26 is 32. So what? If you can't chat up a 32-year-old without blushing, you've probably been cooped up too long. Try it, you never know, now that the kids are grown and gone, what kind of mate you might attract. Nevermind the surgical makeovers, try an attitude adjustment first?

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*(and I've read some pretty dumb ones, too.)


ADDED: Personally, I disagree with this kind of thinking too:

Maybe the reason women get more interesting as they get older is because they don't spend as much time with men half their age. And I think most of the ones I know wouldn't even want to. What would we talk about, we say to each other — as if talk is the most important thing. If you ask me, it is. But clearly it's not for everybody.

Perhaps the secret to success, and happiness, indeed is spending more time with younger people, who aren't so jaded already. Adventure, new thinking, faster sleeker newer models ... I'm not dissing the old here. Just saying, don't underestimate the power of youth in an aging society. And yes, we're stretching here referring to those 32-year-olds as "youth" to be avoided at all costs.