* Mentoring is mentoring - if I liked the people involved, I'd get involved* Yeah, but if it's a 50 year old male executive privately mentoring a 22 year old f

* Mentoring is mentoring - if I liked the people involved, I'd get involved* Yeah, but if it's a 50 year old male executive privately mentoring a 22 year old female CS grad, it might get a little creepy. Same thing goes for a 50 year old female executive privately mentoring a 22 year old new grad. That's not to say that it's wrong for older people to mentor young people of another gender. It's just that the potential for creepiness is higher.