Yesterday's Herald's Stay in Touch column, edited by Emily Dunn and Elicia Murray, included a piece by Andrew Hornery.
What was so fascinating that couldn't wait until Hornery's riveting Saturday gossip column? A piece on double standards and how Elle McPherson and Demi Moore are getting grief for dating younger men.
Personally I couldn't care if Elle McPherson dated Osama Bin Laden. Or even better his 26 year old son, Omar.
Who gives a frock?! Ashton Kulcher is damn cute and, after all, they are Americans.
But Andrew Hornery has got it seriously wrong in writing that society considers it acceptable for craggy old men such as Rupert Murdoch to date and marry significantly younger women.
"Yet barely an eyebrow is raised men date women half their age.(sic) The blokes are labelled silver foxes and given a hearty slap on the back, even thought some have more in common with an ancient turtoise than a nimble fox".
Far from it. It's ridiculous. These old fellas should wake up and smell the steradent!
We have all discussed this issue wondering just how these women can do it? How good a personality or great a lifestyle could it be to make up for waking up to Murdoch, Hugh Hefner or Jim Clark, the 63 year old boyfriend of model Kirsty Hinze.
Who can forget the scene in Sex in the City when Samantha tries dating a rich old fella but, on seeing his sagging wrinkled ass, tears out of the room like a tornado?! Oh how we laughed.
Yet those silly old buggers don't seem to mind being used, which is so obviously what is happening. You never see a young woman with a poor old geezer do you?!
Interestingly when Andrew Hornery was the marketing writer for the Herald he loathed the shallow falseness and frivolous folly of the advertising world. His last column was worth framing for the fuming vitriol it contained. That's a lot of F's but it works.
So I wonder how he copes with the real pressure of a gossip page?
2 comments:
People love each other for many reasons and there is more than one love language. The fact that most of these "silver foxes" are wealthy also goes a long way to making them who they are. You don't know that they are being used! You don't know if the women don't truly love them for who they are. Wrinkles and saggy asses are merely physical. True love is more than that. If the women's' love language is receiving gifts, then these guys can do that in abundance. These women probably also have huge fascination and admiration for these guys life achievements.
I am an "old geezer" and I am also "poor" (thanks to my greedy 'ex'). I am also in a committed relationship with a beautiful woman 17 younger than me. She absolutely adores me, as do I her. She also keeps telling me what a wonderful lover I am. We go all night (without the need for Viagra, if that's what you're thinking). So, Louise, I think you had better have a re-think at what you may be missing out on with "old geezers"!
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