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Age-shaming women doesn't change the basic fact that women are beautiful at all ages. I have no idea why so many men seek younger women. Perhaps they think that they're more youthful, attractive and fertile but nothing could be further from the truth.
Age-shaming women is how you read my post?
Women are beautiful regardless of age, but women definitely look different depending on age. Again, the same applies to men. And again, if you're saying otherwise, you are deluded.
Age-shaming women doesn't change the basic fact that women are beautiful at all ages. I have no idea why so many men seek younger women. Perhaps they think that they're more youthful, attractive and fertile but nothing could be further from the truth.
Gah! I guess since I'm 46, I should cover all of my mirrors, stop going out, stop taking care of my hair and stuff, stop going to the gym, and just fire myself from life.
Nevermind that my last two long term relationships were with younger men.
If you notice, the women who don't like it (on this thread anyway) tend to be married women or women already in relationships... or even younger women in their 20s who have chimed in. So I don't think it's lack of dating options so much as having dealt with this stuff and not liking it that's the reason.
I am concerned about it because it happens to me all the time (still) and I don't like it. Much older men hit on me and I don't care for it at all. It happened in my teens, 20s, and even today. But then again, I can't do a thing about it. I also have a daughter and I worry for her when she's older because when you are in your teens and even early 20s and a 40 or even 50-year-old man hits on you, it's a combination of scary, creepy, intimating, and overwhelming. There is still a degree of childhood "stranger danger" in the mix especially when you are under 16 (and yes, these older men in their 50s hit on minors too... the earliest men started this stuff with me was when I was 12-years-old and riding my bike in my neighborhood).
Now that I am older, I can handle saying no better and I can handle the catcalls... it doesn't scare or intimate me anymore. But it can be really traumatic for a younger woman who is little more than a girl (at least, it was for me back in the day) and I guess all I want is some acknowledgement from men that young woman doesn't equal "just a sex object" and they actually have some empathy for someone who still might be a little girl mentally (or maybe even legally). Hey, if a May December romance blooms, power to both of them... but most times it doesn't happen.
I get this sense that some of the guys in this thread think the older women here have always been older women and didn't live through this kind of thing (or still deal with it). It's not jealousy more so than been there, done that, and hated (and still hate) it.
I'd be inclined to disagree...our more "outspoken" posters have made it a point to mention that they can't find any men their own age because they're pursuing younger women. And if it even truly WAS the married/LTR posters...then they're getting all up in arms about something that's not even affecting them? That's almost worse. There's tons of things I don't like in the world, but I'm not going to try and shame the women on the board into gathering together and fixing it.
I can't speak for the other posters, but I'm well aware of the fact that the older women on this board were younger at some point, which is why it's so obvious when they get so angry about it. Like I said, it's no different than a short or broke guy complaining about women's preferences. If you ask him, he'll say it's not jealousy, he just doesn't think women should be so shallow. People are too defensive to take that sort of accountability, so we'll just have to agree to disagree that that's the case.
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Originally Posted by Francis Bacone
Age-shaming women doesn't change the basic fact that women are beautiful at all ages. I have no idea why so many men seek younger women. Perhaps they think that they're more youthful, attractive and fertile but nothing could be further from the truth.
So you think that younger women aren't more youthful? No wonder you're having trouble understanding the premise of the thread.
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Originally Posted by AmFest
Age-shaming women is how you read my post?
Women are beautiful regardless of age, but women definitely look different depending on age. Again, the same applies to men. And again, if you're saying otherwise, you are deluded.
Francis is seriously reaching to try and get any kind of "age shaming" out of that post.
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Originally Posted by mlj1225
Gah! I guess since I'm 46, I should cover all of my mirrors, stop going out, stop taking care of my hair and stuff, stop going to the gym, and just fire myself from life.
Or you could argue points that people aren't making?
Age-shaming women doesn't change the basic fact that women are beautiful at all ages. I have no idea why so many men seek younger women. Perhaps they think that they're more youthful, attractive and fertile but nothing could be further from the truth.
Attractiveness is subjective to an extent, but are you honestly saying younger people aren't more youthful or fertile? Language and biology, respectively, disagree with you.
There's enough variety in what people find attractive that I never let this bother me.
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There's enough variety in what people find attractive that I never let this bother me.
If only others felt this way. I used to get pretty up in arms about what women wanted when I was younger, but rather than complain about it, I focused on my making myself a better, more interesting person. Being more attractive to women was a byproduct of that.
Women of all ages are attractive. The women easy to approach, talk to, and not give one a hard time, whether they are younger or older, are the ones that get approached. Right now some of them just happen to be younger.
Women of all ages are attractive. The women easy to approach, talk to, and not give one a hard time, whether they are younger or older, are the ones that get approached. Right now some of them just happen to be younger.
Basically.
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