Saturday, 07 November 2009

• Guy's View: Do Men Age Better Than Women?

  

  Do men age better than women? Well, I did just do a post about how good John Stamos looks at age 72. Brad Pitt and Denzel have got to be getting up there in age, yet they are still considered top of their class. Jack Nicholson and Sean Connery are old as fuck and yet if they are seen with some young hottie it is no surprise.

  Is it so different for women though. It used to be that 30 was considered old for women. Now 40 is the new 20. Cougars are all the rage these days thanks in large part to cougar pioneers like Demi Moore, Kim Cattrall and the Desperate Housewives chicks. Being a "mature" woman no longer carries as much of the stigma that it used to.

  One thing that I've always found to be true is that women are better looking than men. I am not just saying this because I am a heterosexual male either. I am not afraid to say when a man is good looking. Women just look better is all.

  Yesterday I was watching Knocked Up with my lady. We got to the part in the movie where a pregnant Katherine Heigel and her older sister get bounced from a club because of the fact that they are pregnant and old. The bouncer, played by Craig Robinson, gave one of my favorite speeches ever in this scene;

  "It's not cause you're not hot, I would love to tap that ass. I would tear that ass up. I can't let you in cause you're old as fuck. For this club, you know, not for the earth."

  Now after they are bounced from the club, older sister Debbie starts cring about her youth being gone. She complains that it's not fair that her husband will get better and better looking, while she'll just get old. At this point my girlfriend turns to me and exclaims, "She's right damnit! You are going to look so good when you get older, meanwhile I don't know what's going to happen to me."

  Is this true? So let's just assume for a minute that socety embraces older women and men equally. If this is the case then it comes down to looks only. Do older men look better than older women in general? Despite my contention that women look better than men, I have to say that men do age older. I said before that women have more to love. This in turn means that when they age, they have more that goes south.

  Women have soft smooth features that get tough and wrinkly as they get older. This is often much less noticeable in men because there is not as drastic of a change. Women have to worry about how gravity will affect their breasts and their butts, and how children will affect so many other things. Men, well men have to just watch their beer intake.

  

  
  This guy may have had one too many.

  Now the question arises as to whether or not this is fair. Well women, let's see here. You guys get to be the better looking gender for the most of our prime years, which means you get free drinks, free dinners, free movie tickets, and general dominion over the male species, you have a longer life expectancy because of the fact that men have to deal with you, and by the time your looks fade you are going through menopause, which means people have to be nice to you no matter how hideous you become because they fear you.

  I'd say that makes things pretty fair.

  Do you agree with this? Do men and women age differently?

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