Re: Older women can have their merits

It's not possible for a younger person reach her level of intelligence simply from lack of experience. Your above comment was very ageist and totally untrue. Intelligence and experience are relative to the individual, and are based upon numerous different factors, including the quality of life experience (as opposed to the quantity of it alone), level of education and quality of the same (and by education I do not mean that which is confined to conventional schooling), and many other factors too. I am highly attracted to intellect in girls and women and I have never had the slightest bit of problem achieving intellectual stimulation from younger women and younger adolescent girls, depending on the individual in question. Conversely, I have known many women in the age group of your professor who displayed little intellectual prowess, worldliness, or open-mindedness to speak of, including but far from limited to several antis I have battled over the years. I do not know your professor personally but I completely believe you when you say she is extremely intelligent, but I would totally disagree that her age and sheer quantity of life experience was the main factor in her intelligence, but rather a combination of many different factors. Comments like the one you made are precisely what antis and anti-youth pundits use to justify the oppression of young people or to rationalize any number of ageist prejudices and discrimination held against them. I am not saying that you have these prejudices, but the comment you made are often used by people who do.