I think her comment is true about the modern world.
But it’s a shame.
We have become a culture that is obsessed with youth and beauty. Everyone wants to be age 22 or so for as long as they possibly can. If you are 55 (or whatever) and don’t look like you are 22, then you are useless.
It would be nice if we could somehow rid ourselves of our obsession with youth and beauty. It is not a good thing.
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. Proverbs 31:30
UHHHHH....I think you are confused and thinking about 20 years ago.
Today we are obsessed with ‘body positivity’ and transgenderism. Where beauty pageants must have quotas. Where the fat ugly tattooed feminist and male with his penis cut off and wearing a wig is elevated above the supermodels of yesteryear as the new ideal ‘beauty’ and you better agree.
I long for the days where we were obsessed with young and beautiful female models!
It's been true for a song as humans have been on this earth.
>>We have become a culture that is obsessed with youth and beauty. Everyone wants to be age 22 or so for as long as they possibly can. If you are 55 (or whatever) and don’t look like you are 22, then you are useless.<<
This has been true for generations. The difference is today you are not allowed to SAY it.
And it is also true that me are prized for looking “distinguished” when they age and can still get good looking, much younger women. Rarely is this true for women and in general older women are considered just old.
But you cannot fight biology and you cannot fight tastes. People like what they like and telling them “it is wrong for you to like that” is pissing up a rope.
Her comment is true about the world since Adam and Eve walked out of the Garden.
We want to be young, strong, good looking and in perfect health. We also have a preference to look at people and be surrounded by people who are like that.
That means that outwardly the tribe is able to take on any challenge that arises. Of course if they are all dumb as stumps, shallow or lazy then we have a problem. But those are internal qualities that you have to invest time and effort to see where as outward appearance is easy to evaluate.
To true. It used to be only women that this was expected from.
But instead of ending or condemning that, we expanded it to men. Now grown men and women are expected to look like pre-pubescent children by shaving their privates so they look like children. Men in the 30,40,and 50’s trying to starve themselves so they can achieve the lanky look of teen still growing. Grown women pressured to lose so much weight they no longer have the hips the define their womanhood. It’s all sick.
I met my husband when I had just turned 50, and he, 51. Neither of us have ever looked our age. We’re no movie stars, we’ve both gotten fatter, but we have days where we feel like a couple of teenagers, and are still just as attracted to each other as we were when we married, 18 years ago, this month.