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Just 50! The age a woman becomes 'invisible' to the opposite sex
The Daily Mail Online ^ | 11th February 2011 | David Wilkes

Posted on 02/15/2011 2:06:35 PM PST by tom h

If life begins at 40, you’d better hurry up and enjoy it, ladies. For in another ten years you are likely to think all men are ignoring you.

A survey has found that eight out of ten women over the age of 50 think members of the opposite sex no longer notice them. So while The Beatles famously lamented becoming over the hill ‘When I’m 64’, women in 2011 will instead be wondering: ‘Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m... 50?’

As if that’s not bad enough, seven out of ten women also feel overlooked by the fashion industry.

On top of apparently being doomed to an existence as an unstylish frump, the survey found that three-quarters of women in their sixth decade believe they have lost their individual identity by being labelled as a ‘mum’.

The findings of the Invisible Women study fly in the face of claims that turning 50 is ‘quintastic’, as represented by glamorous golden girls such as Michelle Pfeiffer and Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall

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To: tom h

Michelle Bachmann. Over fifty. Really really hot.

61 posted on 02/16/2011 11:22:21 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Free Vulcan

Ann Coulter turns 50 this year,too, and I think she’s nice looking.


62 posted on 02/16/2011 12:13:55 PM PST by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: tom h
I agree on Jamie Lee. And she DOES take care of her body. I like the non-liposuctioned look. Not this:
63 posted on 02/16/2011 12:17:38 PM PST by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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