Here is a quote from Maynard’s memoir The Best of Us that describes her dating life in her late fifties:
He always paid for dinner, and it’s a sorry truth that I noticed and liked this behavior.
As a woman who dated extensively for 9 years and never, not once, in absolutely no circumstances allowed any man to pay for me anywhere, I find the behavior Maynard describes to be embarrassing. Whether you let men (or women, or relatives, or rich friends) pay for you is a matter of great indifference to me. Be whoever you are but just be honest about it. If you like men to pay, yippee for you. If you don’t, also yippee. But pretending that you don’t when in reality you do at the not-so-juvenile age of 57 is really pathetic.
First, you cudgel a guy over the head with how you are a hugely independent feminist, and then judge him for believing you and trying not to insult you with offers of paying. I understand if you are 17 but at 57 it’s way too late for these games.
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This woman sounds like the worst kind of clueless liberal, far worse than any Hollywood celebrity who is at least acknowledged to be dumb and entertains people. Your earlier post about her adopting the African children is such typical, liberal narcissistic bullshit, these types will never adopt American black children whom they see as ghetto trash. And now she wants to inflict a failed African doctor on Americans, this woman is the definition of clueless. I give you props for reading this woman’s cluelessness, I’ve read cheesy romance novels on Kindle Unlimited with more entertainment value and don’t want to make me stab someone
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