Y&R & B&B December spoilers

[Darn]

Is it a recent development that soaps stopped addressing age gaps in relationships? I feel like 20 years ago the age gap between Jack and Sally would have been the crux of their relationship (maybe it was, I don't watch) but from what I can tell it was more about people disliking her or whatever.

[Antoyne]

They never addressed it and it was odd.

[Faulkner]

Indeed. I wondered if it was a Peter Bergman vanity thing. 

[Darn]

That's so strange. Was someone worried about offending Peter Bergman? Jack is old enough to be Sally's grandfather. They could have wrung so much story out of their age gap. But I shouldn't be surprised on a show that treats Nick, Sharon and Phyllis like they're perpetually 25.

[Forever8]

I was waiting forever for them to mention that. I mean let's recall Jack was a Harvard grad when Soul Train first premiered. 

[Khan]

But, if the situation were reversed, and Sally was 240 years older than Jack, Y&R's writers would have been cracking "cougar jokes" like there was no damn tomorrow.

Edited December 8, 2021 by Khan

[DramatistDreamer]

Or you would have had a character calling her an "old bittie", "old bat" or "old battle-ax", any number of names similar to the ones Jill used to call Katherine.

In any case, it wouldn't be pretty.