Charlie Rose played the role of dirty older man on 'CBS This Morning' - CNN
This is so often how we present heterosexuality: men as sexual bloodhounds always sniffing out another lay (no matter how old they are, no matter whether they're in their place of employment), women as objects of desire.
For women, shutting down that narrative means you're prudish or even rude. Being likable means playing along — flirting with men old enough to be your father when they indicate that's what they like, while not crossing the line into explicit conveyance of your own sexual desires (that would make you a slut).
Men, obviously, benefit mightily from this model. The same behavior Rose exhibited on the air — his gently leering old man persona — was allegedly magnified in his life off the air, reportedly to the detriment of some of his female subordinates, according to their accounts.
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