[lit-ideas] Re: Stand Close to Me

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:48:39 EST

You forgot to mention Mrs. Ronbinson..

========Original Message========     Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Stand Close to Me  
Date: 1/28/2007 2:57:09 P.M. Central Standard Time  From: _wokshevs@xxxxxxx 
(mailto:wokshevs@xxxxxx)   To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
(mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) , _erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
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on:    
Is it that females are, for some reason, more  mature on average than males in
the W. Hemisphere? (Carol Gilligan and Nel  Nodding seem to corroborate this
hypothesis.) And if that is the case, what  accounts for the
maturity-differential? I, myself, have always been drawn to  older women, ever
since the age of 10. (Montrealish ethics, and a very  liberal post-Trudeauish
cosmopolitan society has alot to do with it. I'll  never forget Maxine.) 

Moving on:

Why do so many women think of us  older guys as "immature brats" even when we 
put
on our best fronts and try  really hard to act like Cary Grant? Is it a matter
of our DNA? Or  socialization? Or adherence to a post-metaphysical or
fundamentalist  world-view? Returning to a re-re-re-re-re-re-re-viewing of
*North by  Northwest*, A Hitchcock. "Really". Is it that Grace Kelly knew how 
to
move  languidly and sensuously, slowly and deliberately without real effort,  
on
screen, or what? Or was it her fried cnicken? ("Feel the diamonds  ...
") 

Walter O.
St. Ivan's, Novoya Zemlya 



Quoting  Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I think that's a  somewhat unwarranted generalization.  My significant  
> other  of nearly five months is 10 years older than I am (34) and there  
>  is no such power differential, as you put it (the thought of his  
>  attempting to exert any "power" over me whatsoever is, frankly,  
>  laughable).   I rarely ever notice the age gap, and when I do,  it's  
> only to marvel at the fact that someone his age can behave  like such  
> an immature brat at times.
> Erin
>  Toronto
> 
> Quoting Andy Amago  <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> >      -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Geary
> > Sent: Jan  28, 2007 12:15 PM
> > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:  [lit-ideas] Re: Don't Stand So Close to Me
> >
> >   A.A.  Sexual pleasure
> > with an older man as  opposed to someone her own age?  You have to be
> > kidding.   That's a clear power differential that speaks for itself I
> > think,  but, of course, not to you.  It must be nice to live in a
> >  world where things just happen.  Not happen for a reason, but just
>  > happen.
> 
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