{"id":229,"date":"2024-02-08T19:23:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2024-02-08T19:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T19:23:51","slug":"the-age-gappers-they-say-theyre-happy-why-is-it-so-hard-to-believe-them-lila-shapiro-the-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/the-age-gappers-they-say-theyre-happy-why-is-it-so-hard-to-believe-them-lila-shapiro-the-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Age Gappers They say they\u2019re happy. Why is it so hard to believe them?\u201d &#8211; Lila Shapiro (The Cut)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAs Gloria Steinem once put it, \u201cIf feminism means anything, it means taking responsibility for ourselves. It is not \u2018women as victims\u2019 but women refusing to be victims.\u201d The revelations of Me Too undercut that logic, showing that powerful men, protected by the institutions they dominated, could harm even the most capable and intelligent women. Age-gap discourse, which is aimed primarily at older men dating younger women, grew out of that movement\u2019s concern with power differentials and with coercion and consent. But it also sits at odds with Me Too\u2019s core ethos \u2014 \u201cBelieve women\u201d \u2014 by raising an outcry on behalf of women who, by all available public accounts, have no complaints about their relationships. Even if they say they are happy, the age-gap critics don\u2019t believe them\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/age-gap-relationships-couples.html\">https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/age-gap-relationships-couples.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs Gloria Steinem once put it, \u201cIf feminism means anything, it means taking responsibility for ourselves. It is not \u2018women as victims\u2019 but women refusing to be victims.\u201d The revelations of Me Too undercut that logic, showing that powerful men, protected by the institutions they dominated, could harm even the most capable and intelligent women.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}