Why are women in their 30s considered old and men are not?

[Anonymous]

PP here. Forgot to mention that men are still considered attractive as they get older as women value wealth and status which men gain with age. Usually they aren't actually more attractive with age but throw cash in front of females and they will date anything. So the women aren't really attracted to the guy just the lifestyle he will give them.

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Anonymous wrote:Women will always look their best in their 20's. They are not old in their 30's but because of declining fertility women have been viewed as becoming old in their 30's. That's not to say that women in their 40's and older can't be attractive but they don't have the same supple skin as when they were 20.

The day women realise they have more to offer than their looks is when they will find happiness. Chasing youth with surgery and botox screams of insecurity to me.

What is supple skin? line free and wrinkle free? cause I met plenty of 20 somethings with lines, bags, acne, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Women will always look their best in their 20's. They are not old in their 30's but because of declining fertility women have been viewed as becoming old in their 30's. That's not to say that women in their 40's and older can't be attractive but they don't have the same supple skin as when they were 20.

The day women realise they have more to offer than their looks is when they will find happiness. Chasing youth with surgery and botox screams of insecurity to me.

Oh I have to add, I had acne through my 20's but skin is clear in my 30's. Also if you want to talk about 'supple' oily skin is better at aging the slowest. Dry skin isn't. My bf has dry skin and is 5 yrs younger than me. In his late 20's he had more lines/wrinkles.

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"Surprisingly few well-designed studies of female age and natural fertility include women born in the 20th century—but those that do tend to paint a more optimistic picture. One study, published in Obstetrics & Gynecology in 2004 and headed by David Dunson (now of Duke University), examined the chances of pregnancy among 770 European women. It found that with sex at least twice a week, 82 percent of 35-to-39-year-old women conceive within a year, compared with 86 percent of 27-to-34-year-olds. (The fertility of women in their late 20s and early 30s was almost identical—news in and of itself.) Another study, released this March in Fertility and Sterility and led by Kenneth Rothman of Boston University, followed 2,820 Danish women as they tried to get pregnant. Among women having sex during their fertile times, 78 percent of 35-to-40-year-olds got pregnant within a year, compared with 84 percent of 20-to-34-year-olds. A study headed by Anne Steiner, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, the results of which were presented in June, found that among 38- and 39-year-olds who had been pregnant before, 80 percent of white women of normal weight got pregnant naturally within six months (although that percentage was lower among other races and among the overweight). “In our data, we’re not seeing huge drops until age 40,” she told me."

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-long-can-you-wait-to-have-a-baby/309374/

In other words, fertility in most of your 30s is not all that much different from fertility in your 20s.

The reason 30 year old women are considered "old" is that their value is still intrinsically tied to reproduction in our sexist world. Eventually this comes around to men too -- it just takes a decade longer, when people start looking askance at never-married 40-year old men.

with sex at least twice a week, 82 percent of 35-to-39-year-old women conceive within a year, compared with 86 percent of 27-to-34-year-olds.

You must stop all those "decreased fertility' comments. Above is a quote from page 3 or 4 - but who cares about the facts, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well i am a late 30s woman and always get carded when watching r rated movies. Also been told i don't look my age.

Every women gets told that. No one in their right mind gives an honest answer to “how old do I look?”

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, black don't crack.

Oh God, we can’t go through a single thread without this.

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Anonymous wrote:Only applicable to cacausen women....30 looks like 55

Here we go again with some jealous WOC dissing the appearances of white women.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, black don't crack.

Yeah, not being really thin helps with wrinkles.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know, I’m a guy and the current generation of young women is not very appealing. Lots of tattoos, messy hair weirdly piled on top of their heads, many overweight, obsessed with some vapid social media image. No thanks. Give me a fit 40-something any day.

I don’t blame you. We 40 somethings are just naturally more attractive.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, black don't crack.

Yeah, not being really thin helps with wrinkles.

So what's your weight?

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Anonymous wrote:Only applicable to cacausen women....30 looks like 55

What is a “cacausen” woman? I bet you never won a Spelling Bee (or any other type of intellectual competition).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only applicable to cacausen women....30 looks like 55

What is a “cacausen” woman? I bet you never won a Spelling Bee (or any other type of intellectual competition).

You are correctd....never won a spelling bee competion....BUT i have always had 20/20 vision. White women age like s##t. Btw..im a white woman. It hurst but i can be honest on an anonymous forum. Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only applicable to cacausen women....30 looks like 55

What is a “cacausen” woman? I bet you never won a Spelling Bee (or any other type of intellectual competition).

You are correctd....never won a spelling bee competion....BUT i have always had 20/20 vision. White women age like s##t. Btw..im a white woman. It hurst but i can be honest on an anonymous forum. Sorry.

Just because you may have aged like crap, it doesn’t mean the rest of us have.

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Anonymous wrote:Well i am a late 30s woman and always get carded when watching r rated movies. Also been told i don't look my age.

Every women gets told that. No one in their right mind gives an honest answer to “how old do I look?”

It helps that I have full cheeks (not fat though) and skin that is combination and not dry. I am also petite so I frequently get carded for R rated movies and the only one in my group who gets carded for alcohol at restaurants. Oh and I a person of color (not black though).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well i am a late 30s woman and always get carded when watching r rated movies. Also been told i don't look my age.

Every women gets told that. No one in their right mind gives an honest answer to “how old do I look?”

OH and I NEVER ask ANYONE how old I look. THEY comment on my age when they see how old I really am (nurses, bosses, etc).