What do Hollywood bonkbusters Bridget Jones: Mad About a Boy, Baby Girl, and Lonely Planet have in common? The middle-aged blonde ice maidens at the centre of each film are all women who refuse to age gracefully. Their faces show a toxic desire to cling onto youth.
The movies also all feature large age-gap relationships with the woman as the older party. Thanks to the gender reversal, pop culture is lauding the storylines as inspiration and liberating. But what message are young people – especially guys – supposed to take away? The bald fact is there’s a reason why it’s a social taboo to have sex with people young enough to be your kid. Anyone maintaining otherwise is indulging a luxury belief.
The tradwife phenomenon is the pretty face of the rebellion
My generation, Generation Z, drew the short end of the stick by growing up when the sex-positive feminism movement was at its height.

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