Oh, those French! They always stretch the boundaries of social intercourse! I just discovered that Emmanuel Macron, the centrist candidate for the French presidency, is married to a woman, Brigitte, who is 25 years his senior ... and has a stepson two years older than he is. He met his future wife when he was a 15-year-old student and she was his 39-year-old drama teacher. This is the age that he is now and she is 64. The broad-minded French think nothing of this May-October hook-up, but some of we American narrow minds find it a little, should I say, different.
To read the genesis and more details of this feline romance, see: Powerline Blog.
But, as Jerry Seinfeld once said, "Not that there is anything wrong with that."
Afterward: Marine Le Pen is now 38 years old. Perhaps to keep things equitable, she should take up with a 13 year old boy? Meow!
After afterward: Above I called Macron a "centrist." In France, Socialism is a centrist position.
