Age gaps, swag gaps and Claude gaps – are they really such a big deal in relationships?

What happened

According to The Guardian’s source item, Age gaps, swag gaps and Claude gaps – are they really such a big deal in relationships?, The internet is making everything into a ‘relationship gap’ by seizing on any difference between two dating humans It started with the age gap. Can a 40-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman truly get along? That was once a question answered with a resounding “yes” by creepy English professors or moustached indie film-makers with a questionable grasp on the meaning of Lolita. Then came gen Z. A cohort raised on the rigid moral boundaries of internet discourse – things are either good or bad, no in-between – decided that May-December relationships were either problematically one-sided or transactional in nature. Growing up in the fractured aftermath of #MeToo, where monstrous men were often much older than the women they victimized, probably contributed to that conclusion. Continue reading…

Context

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Source

Primary source: Age gaps, swag gaps and Claude gaps – are they really such a big deal in relationships? via The Guardian. VINI cites and links the source; it does not reproduce the publisher’s full article text without rights clearance.