Men's Memes: Are 'toy boys' really that popular?

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Are 'toy boys' really that popular?

I've already revealed in my article 'The Oedipussy Complex' the idea that older woman/younger male relationships are becomming the norm is largely an invention of the media.

Lets do a quick and dirty experiment to investigate this idea. More match.com I'm affraid! I'll go over to the Internet dating site right now and see what ages of men the women who are online in my area are looking for....

Okay, I'm back.

There are only four women from my area online at the moment (well it IS Sunday morning), but their profiles are revealing.

Woman 1 is 27 years old, and is seeking men between 27 and 38. In other words she is NOT seeking men younger than herself, but is seeking men up to 11 years older than she is.

Woman 2 is also 27, and she is seeking men between 28 and 40. So a similar picture with her, she is not looking for younger men, but is looking for men up to 13 years older.

Woman 3 is 29, and she is seeking men between 28 and 37. So shes willing to consider men only 1 year younger, but up to 8 years older. (incidentally, this woman is from the 'liberal' city that I mentioned a few posts back).

Lastly, woman 4 is 27 and is seeking men between 27 and 45. Again, no toy-boy seeker here, but willing go for men up to 18 years older!

Sorry female journalists, but its looking like the 'toy boy' trend is all in your heads.

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Turn of the tide: feminists begin to regret

Cosmopolitan (The women's magazine that urges women to use men for sex) Editor Lorraine Candy has a change of mind and now urges women not to have "Soul-less sex":

"We didn't feel ashamed about one-night stands...this, we thought, is what feminism is about."

70s feminist Fay Weldon now says:

"It is the fault of me and my like, who... got it wrong.

So were we wrong, we feminists, setting women free? The results have been devastating – greater than we ever imagined.

We steamed ahead, changing the world with too little caution, and I hope the future will forgive us.

The pendulum has swung too far over. But it may yet swing back again. Societies, thank God, tend to be self-righting."

"Once a man could look forward to starting a family and the dignity that came from being the provider. Forget it. At best as a man you're decorative, look after the kids and earn a bit sometimes; at worst you're a write-off. Women are elbowing the men out. The boys get anxious, the girls swagger. The male suicide rate goes up, female down. Twenty-eight per cent of us now live in single person households - a lonely and unnatural state - and most of the 28 per cent consist of young men. It is strange that it is left to a woman to suggest, in the normal nurturing way, that men start some kind of movement to promote their gender's status and self-esteem - call it masculinism, brotherism, machoism, what you want - and some mark of the success of the feminist movement, that it needs to be done."

60's feminist Doris Lessing now says:

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

An excerpt from an interview with Joan Rivers:

"She's not with the feminists when it comes to matters of the heart. For her, they're to blame for the current parlous state of our relationships, as depicted in these television Shows (Such as Sex in the city) and films. "I saw this coming. You cannot be equal to a man, you cannot make a man feel 'I don't need you' or 'I'll take my sex when I want it'. All these shows are so sad."

Camille Paglia :

"Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials.

But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper.

Male conspiracy cannot explain ALL female failures.

I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant.

. . . Even now, with all vocations open, I marvel at the rarity of the woman driven by artistic or intellectual obsession, that self-mutilating derangement of social relationship which, in its alternate forms of crime and ideation, is the disgrace and glory of the human species."