“Now if you are a rich, powerful older bloke, having a young thingy
on your arm is rather common."

Why thank you Yabby. So out of the eleven richest and most successful people in Australia, only one has selected "a young thingy" though one would hardly describe this intelligent lady as a "young thingy" would one?

Unlike the very unsuccessful DB, the majority of successful people don't house their brains in their trousers by preying on "young thingies" during working hours!

Women have both cerebal hemispheres more connected by neurons than men.This is why they are good at muliti-tasking and talking.Men unfortunately have one hemisphere totally dedicated to power via the penis.Logic requires blood for thinking and man apparently does not have enough blood to think and indulge in erotica at the same time.

*So out of the eleven richest and most successful people in Australia*

Dickie dear, inheriting lots of money, neither makes people old nor
successful, more like fortunate.

Fact is that of Australia's top 4 businessmen who made it, ie Pratt,
Packer, Murdoch and Lowy, three that we know of, have/had either
a mistress or young wife on their arm. 3/4 does indeed mean it
is rather common.

The truth about mistresses often only surfaces later, when everyone
is squabbling about the estate.

*Generalities and stats on which most papers are based on don't show squat about specific INDIVIDUAL*

Examinator, the question which you posed and I answered, was not about
an individual. Go and reread it. I supplied you with the answer,
confirmed with much statistical evidence from David Buss.

As to your straw-man arguments, frankly I can't be bothered, so have
fun. I know exactly what I have claimed and if you want to turn it
into something else due to stupidity or deviousness, that is your
problem, not mine.

Foxy, yes I know some American women who can afford it, are knocking
off younger guys. We will always have exceptions around. That does
not change the findings which Buss highlights, which are that
across cultures, men on average pay more attention to youth and
looks and females on average pay more attention to status and
resources. All this at a level which is statistically highly
significant.

At the very start of the thread the question was asked, should Della have lost his job as a result of this.
We got into his shame at using such a young sweet thing, betraying his wife, not being a nice bloke.
For several reasons, he is a politician, he is a Labor minister, he once had a blue in a restaurant, Labor may be involved in the murder of a stand over man.
Well we have our answer, here in this thread.
The media is a mirror.
It is no worse or better than us, we no better than it.
And men, all of us, are much more likely to be in the wrong than women.
Or do we lurch away from reality at the drop of a hat in matters of sex?
If we do not understand both men and women make mistakes in matters of love, every day we are kidding ourselves.
I see near xenophobia in the way we treat politicians, they too are human.
To consider every one of them as less worthy is blind stupidity.
Yabby move over, its time I shared the kicking you have been getting, like you I am not refusing to see every day life as it is, if only I could write of a nearby village called Payton place by all who live there

Dear Yabby,

You really need to do a bit more research.
Today women don't need men to support them -
they're quite capable of supporting themselves.
They are also demanding more from relationships -
thus younger men are also a drawcard - they're
more flexible (no pun intended) and not set in
their ways as older men tend to be. To-day it is
a question of choice. People are simply not prepared
to settle for whatever they can get any more - as
previous generations tended to do.

It's not only a few 'American' women that are finding
younger men attractive - as you seem to think.
The Bureau of Statistics gives a very different
picture to the one you're presenting.
As for the four men you mentioned - From Pratt to
Murdoch - their choices were not made up of - the
usual 'young things,' that you're painting. A different set
of circumstances came into play with each case - The women
they chose had special characteristics ( and added
attractions on offer) - but as I said - do your research.

Hey Belly. The men blame the woman because they can see a young pretty woman having power over an older male? The females blame the man because they can see that an older male compared to a young female would have more influence?

Humans and ages, money and gender... No matter which way you mix those things up you’d still find two people sleeping together. Older broke chick and a young wealthy man – still happens like Foxy is saying and you don’t often find that one pulled out the others finger nails to convince them.

I automatically lay blame at the married person’s feet and hope they trip over it in to a pit of poisoned darts.

Yabby's points all make sense at that basic level all humans come from and then Exam made sense at the next level far as I could see.

Politicians make decisions that seem to be more about themselves than the general public. I don’t hear much good stuff aye.

Arjay, you rock.