Lately I've been stumbling upon opinions and thoughts on relationships depicted on tv and film that involved two characters with a relatively large age gap. The amoral-moral relativists and feminists (sometimes one in the same) will say that is all depends on the context of the relationship. What they mean by this is if the younger character, usually the female, has has the upper hand (aka initiates the seduction) then it's amoral if not a good thing because the cards are flipped where normally it's the older character, usually a male, that seduces the young woman.
This strikes me as immensely shallow and hypocritical because according to their reasoning, when they play the age of majority card, that as long as there's consent it doesn't matter who seduces who unless one party later regrets the sexual encounter.
Let's move to real life. Sexual education isn't a crime in the States but there are questions asking if it can be counted as rape to a degree. Sometimes seductions can be said be an art form of manipulation. Again, if we shift back to tv and movies, if the female does the manipulation there won't be much talks of how it's weird that a young female is having sex with a much older male with a healthy "she's 18/an adult she knows what she wants ... " rhetoric thrown in, but if the seduction was done by the older male there'd be a good chance forums and discussion boards would bring this element up and raise concern about it.
Why is it okay for a fictional female character who is 18/19/20/21 to seduce an older man but not the other around? Wouldn't it be cringe either way?
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