Men ageing vs women.

Grey/white hair has never been considered unflattering in a man, while it has been until recently for women, now many have stopped colouring their hair. Same with lines and wrinkles, they never bothered men the same as they do women. Women were valued for their looks, men for their wealth.

To me the main problem with ageing is not either looks or how either sex is perceived, but about the rate at which the two sexes slow down.

Men, not only my husband, but most of the men I know or know of, reach the age of 60 something and slow down to an alarming extent.

However active they have been formerly, their retirement consists of sitting on their backsides watching Netflix.

Any job around the house or garden they start is left half or quarter done for weeks and weeks, nothing is ever put away, and to cap it all, a new project gets started before the old one was finished. If that is, they ever do get off their sofa.

Why?

Women as a general rule finish what they started, even if it takes longer now than it did when we were 20.

Wrinkles, greying hair, false teeth okay, just give me sixpence worth of gumption in the opposite sex.

I have a theory that the more feminine looking men - which includes quite a few of the teenage heart throbs - age more badly than the manly looking types . I am guessing that the heart throb you mention was one of these with quite feminine features? I've seen a couple recently and was quite shocked how much they had aged . I suppose the more rugged type of men tend to have a beard and good muscle tone ? Well that's my little theory anyway !

I can now look at young gorgeous men and know if they’re going to age well. I guess it’s all down to bone structure. I mean, who would have thought, back in the day, that Ringo Starr would age better than Paul?Going off at a it of a tangent ( but not worth starting a new thread about) I saw that one of my favourite actresses, Jennifer Lawrence, had become a mother and, nit recognising the name of her partner I googled him and was surprised to find that he wasn’t very good looking. A relative of mine who was quite nerdy when young became a silver fox in middle age. On the subject of how women age I bumped into Miriam Stoppard a few years ago and she literally had the skin of a twenty year old. On tv it looks as though she’s had lots of work done but it’s all down to healthy eating and sun protection.

Just wish my terminally ill husband could have the opportunity to age a little longer ...............whatever he looks like

Oh Elfies

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Men age better than women. A grey haired man looks ‘distinguished’ - a grey haired woman looks ‘old’

... erm, I beg to disagree.

I've seen more than enough grey-haired men with their T shirts pushed out by their paunches, baseball caps on the wrong way round.

Or dressed in tight, badly fitted suits for their changing shape (men change shape too).

'Distinguished' men have probably always looked so, along with elegant grey-haired women.