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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.

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32 minutes ago, Darn said:

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.

They never addressed it and it was odd.

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7 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

They never addressed it and it was odd.

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

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6 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

They never addressed it and it was odd.

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.

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42 minutes ago, Darn said:

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.

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

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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.

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27 minutes ago, Khan said:

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.

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.

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