Merci Marc for finding these this article...if only so I can say....so much rubbish! I didn't believe that a 'real' newspaper would publish such trash and try to pass it off as facts and statistics...the newspaper I worked for for 10 years would never have got away with publishing something like this!
Just look at all the insults, to both men and women....
What women want is a younger man
January 12 2003
It could be an extension of girl power,
(Girl Power???) what are we? The Spice Girls?!!!!)
or maybe young women are finally waking up to the fact that blokes over 40 don't cut the mustard in the stud stakes.
Ok, so seems to say that after the age of 40, your sex life is over......
(In reality, I would say reduction in popularity would more likely happen if a guy went bald, than if he was getting a bit older )
Whatever the reason, statistics show that women are increasingly pursuing younger partners.
In 1981, 3.7 per cent of women were partnered with men aged in their 20s. By 2001, this had risen to 4.7 per cent. It is not hard to understand why this should be so.
Ok, so the statistics have risen 1% in 20 years...and they call this an 'increasingly' popular trend....??? C'est ridicule!
"It is well known that older men who go for the Baywatch trophy partner largely do so for the sex."
K: To some modern Australian guys who are trying to become and be seen as more sensitive, I think this would be a real insult to read.
"Generation gaps are most evident in such things as shared books, films, political awareness and even history."
K: Ok, I admit this, since I've got a 9 year age gap entre moi et mon mari.
But even my mother in law, who is 73, is very modern and listens to some 90's and 200's movieset la semaine passe, ell avait vu 'Terminator 3"!
It's not impossible for really old men to be modern in their thinking, so this quote is rubbish too.
"...There is nothing more pathetic than an over-tanned Seniors Card-holder desperately trying to hide the flab beneath a flowing Hawaiian shirt, gold chains chinking in grizzled chest hair, as he holds hands with someone barely out of school".
K - rather nasty!
"Then there is the music.
If there is a one single example of generational incompatibility then it has to be music. Try putting on Phil Collins to set the mood with a 20-something of either sex. How very '80s. Today, its all silverchair, Shakira or Eminem."
K: I disagree totally! L'auteur est un moron!
Even I still listen to The Beatles sometimes, in between my Silverchair!
..."But do grandpa sugar daddies with delusions of being a chick magnet
- and that's who we're talking about here - really listen to that?"
K: Chick magnet???? Ce phrase n'existe pas!
"...You can call it defeat at the hands of younger women shopping around for leaner meat, but the reality is that women are tired of sexual failures and want disposable partners who are not squinting into the glare of blue Viagra days..."
C'est pas vrai! Ce phrase est un mensonge aussi!
"But for many older men who have girded their creaking loins and played the field, the party's over..."
Christopher Bantick is a Melbourne writer. (K: et il est bizarre!)
Ok, so having shot this article to pieces and disagreed with all of it, I believe on behalf of a very large % of Australian women...what do Oz women really want then?
Maybe it's easier to start with what sort of man they DON'T want.
They don't want aussie guys who do not do much more than drink a lot of beer and grunt into their drinks. They want intelligent conversation....besides other things, of course.
I know Australian women often have a lot of trouble with Oz guys who can't express feelings too well, which happens a lot.
Otherwise, Australian women just want normal things - normal relationships.
Kate