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[quote=Anonymous]I don't even understand this question because of course body type and how you age is at least somewhat dictated by genetics. But also lifestyle is going to play a role. How is this even a question?

OP, you are selectively remembering how women aged when you were a kid -- you are only thinking of a handful of women in your life including your female relatives who share your genetics and maybe a handful of other women (most of whom likely had similar backgrounds to your family members). But no, it's not like all women became bottom heavy as they aged, all over the world and in every socio-economic class, and then that changed. And today you are also taking a tiny sample of "women you interact with regularly and pay attention to" and extrapolating that this is just how all women today age. There are likely even women you see all the time but don't really register them as peers and therefore just don't notice how they are aging. This is like when I was in college and my brunette roommate fretted that "everyone here is blonde" because she was self conscious about not being blonde for some reason, and I was blonde and there were two blonde women in her freshman writing seminar, so she briefly believed that "most" college women were blonde. She was totally blinded by her own weird fixations and insecurities. A normal percent of the student body of our school was blonde or brunette or redheaded. She just could not see it somehow because her brain discounted everyone but these three blonde women as not being relevant. You are doing that too.[/quote]

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