Problem is that too many men think with their gonads and not with their minds and hearts, and too many women knock themselves out trying to please these guys. Hence, all the botox, surgery, etc etc. Women shouldn't do that to themselves, IMHO. Aging is a part of life.
The people I feel badly for are the ones who don't make it to "senior citizen" status.
“Who was more beautiful than Katherine Hepburn in her 80’s?”
True, and I can sincerely see the beauty in many older women. But it is simply silly for authors like this Boston Globe columnist to stamp their feet over the fact that, by and large, men are going to prefer younger, nubile women in leading lady parts.
The best looking “older” woman was and is Maureen O’Hara. She was a major league beauty who actually kept that beauty as she aged. As did Ingrid Bergman. And Marlene Dietrich.
Isn't it funny that when women are sway to their hormones they're "irrational," but when men cave into theirs, well, hey, that's just DNA, baby?
Barbara Stanwyck
I get a kick out of the hoopla about celebrity marriage's and pregnancies between "Beautiful people". All the plastic surgery on the parents won't mean a hill of beans when they have an ugly@ss kid!
Women don't do these things for men, they do them because they are competing in a beauty competition with other women.
How fortunate of you to be blessed with a different mix of hormones..For the rest of us, all I can say is...Sorry !
>>>men think with their gonads and not with their minds and hearts, and too many women knock themselves out trying to please these guys.<<<
While the first part of your assessment may have truth in it, I think it is women themselves who are most brutal to each other about their looks. Thus, many women aren’t trying to please the guys, but rather please their hypercritical female friends. I can’t tell you how many husbands I know who are perfectly happy with their aging wives, while the women themselves show great insecurity about the aging process.