That's not true, about the attitude. I've not dated someone significantly older but I have dated someone significantly younger.

A good friend of mine is attracted to older men though. She dates them almost exusively when we were younger. Every single one of them would put down the markers of her youth. Music, clothes, language, pop culture shifts, you name it. Everything was magical when they were young and what's popular among the young 'today' (whenever 'today' is) is lame, trite, and embarrassingly not good.

I did not act like that when I dated a younger man. I went out of my way to make sure there was equal time between likes when we did stuff. When it was my turn to lead dates, I strove to keep a balance between fun stuff and cultured stuff.

You're generalizing all older women daters based off your one bad experience. That doesn't make your presumption true. It means you went out with a snob. Some people are just like that, it's not gendered and it doesn't have anything to do with age gaps.

Even with my friend, her multiple experience do not translate to "all men" because that same attitude was present in the younger men she dated, just about different things. Why? She was attracted to snobs. Her dad was a snob and that's what she thought love looked like.