As such, a big reason that a subset of people persecutes age gap relationships is that many young people are threatened by the idea that older people are more attractive than them, and many older people are threatened by the idea that younger people are more attractive than them. Social commentators then prey on these fears by selling rubbish that gives said insecure people an excuse to attack age gap relationships, which they do in the hopes that it will make people want to date them and not others.