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[quote=Anonymous][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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No, it’s biology being reflected in the culture. It has ALWAYS been thus.[/quote]

Biology is a part of it but it's ignorant to think that's all of the story.  For most of history, men have controlled how women are portrayed and defined what is beautiful for BOTH genders.  This is about power as much as biology.

If women had had a voice in advertising, or had money and status that allowed them to have more control, women would not have created ads showing the height of beauty in a woman as an 18-year-old skinny girl and male attractiveness as a 50 year old man. That narrative completely suits men.

But this is what we call sexy now, because it's what we've been told, and what we've grown up with. I don't disagree that biology is a part of it, but the importance is exaggerated.  And we know this because the age gap in marriages has dramatically declined.  In the last 50 plus years, as women have more power and education, they marry men closer in age to them, be cause they don't feel that they have to marry a man to decades older![/quote]

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