I was just re reading and that reminded me of when I was in school. One older woman in her 40s told me how much she envied this other woman who was young and pretty at the time.Contrarian Expatriate wrote:Oleg Nosolov's book on women explains why older women hate age gaps between older men and younger women. Post-wall women know instinctively that younger women are at a beauty and fertility premium, thus they are higher value than older women. Older women therefore seek to shame men or stigmatize older men as "creepy" or "dirty old men" so that these men stay with women in their older age bracket. Without this stigma, older women could never stand a chance at landing a man of her own age.Adama wrote:I never understood why people care about age gaps.
And when a man her age who was with us started talking about the beauty of some of the women in their 20s, this same older woman said to him, "John, you've lost some points." Probably that means she started to think less of him because he praised the beauty of younger women.
This woman was also married to a man that most people would classify as handsome with movie star looks.