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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All things being equal - regular exercise, good diet, no smoking - it's easier for a good looking 25 year old man to become a good looking 50 year old man as long as he continues with a healthy lifestyle. I think it's much tougher for a good looking 25 year old woman to become a good looking 50 year old woman - even with a continuous healthy lifestyle.

But there are plenty of exceptions. Gillian Anderson was and remains a beautiful woman. But what we see in Hollywood has never been reflective of what we see at the school pick up line. It's easier for 50 year old men who do the basic work - run, lift, eat well, avoid alcohol, do some yoga, get 8 hours of sleep, and dress reasonably well - to get second and third looks at the grocery store. While that remains true for some women, the luck of the genetic lottery factors much more prominently when it comes to who looks good going into their 50s.

So getting back to the original point, there are a lot of men that will find Gillian Anderson very attractive. But she's not typical for a woman in her 50s. It's much easier for a man to be a George Clooney or Daniel Craig in their 50s, then it is for a woman to be a Selma Hayek or Elizabeth Hurley in their 50s.    [/quote]

It’s not that men inherently “age better”. It’s that society, tv, movies, etc, has portrayed the aging man as still attractive.

Whereas, an aging actress gets replaced by a younger one more readily while the same age man is still a lead character.

Those magazines with “sexiest men” columns always have older men pictured. But the sexiest women ones are all young, bikini bodied women.

This has completely infiltrated the psyche of society.

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This is a good way to put it, that it has infiltrated our psyches.  These are things that you notice from a very young age and it imprints on your brain – look at any ad or movie and you will see a gray haired man with a younger woman by his side

Boys and girls have picked up on this by the age of about eight or nine and by the time they're teens it's  part of their sexual identities too, the idea  that girls have an obligation to be young and beautiful and it's core to your value.

Itd sad that women devalue themselves so much as they get older, there is so much self-hatred,  I think most men are actually pretty open-minded and can find  women of all ages attractive, especially as they get older.  [/quote]

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