I felt a blog coming on when I read a news item today about a bestselling French author and film director, who is 50 years old. This man told Marie Claire magazine that he could never love a woman aged 50 or over, because he prefers the bodies of younger women aged around 25. He states that the body of a 25 year old woman is ‘extraordinary’, and the body of a 50 year old is ‘not extraordinary’ and regards them as invisible.
I looked him up on Google. Rather unsurprisingly he does not seem to be married. I assume that working in the film industry where the young and beautiful pout and prance about obviously seems to have warped his mind.
In my opinion this man’s statements say a lot about his personality. It says that he views women as air-heads and sex objects or arm/eye candy to be used just for his personal gratification and then discarded when their youth has passed. He obviously has no interest in probing the mature minds of middle-aged women who have gained much wisdom through life experiences. He assumes that all women aged 50 or over are unattractive because they are post-menopausal or have let themselves go.
This also made me wonder… what do younger women think about middle-aged men of 50 and over? Have 50 year old men let themselves go? I would say that yes, some have, but others look after themselves and remain attractive. You cannot tar every 50 year old with the same brush.
Would a 25 year old woman want to date an ordinary 50 year old man who is not a bestselling author and film director? Yes of course, just as sometimes younger men want to date older women, because they see them not as bodies to be ogled, but people in their own right with opinions to be respected.
I like a lot of 50 year old men – just not him! To me he is very unattractive, and I’m not just talking about his body here…
Phil Huston said:
Well, the flip side of that is the, as I’m told, attractive aging male star Robert Redford, who said before he got so old he needed oxygen, that women’s faces and figures and minds and indeed the whole package didn’t have any character until they were at least forty. Still, one of those women as quantified comments.
Or, as the female star of my WIP says, “Pigs are pigs.”
You know, old ugly pigs can rent what he’s talking about, and that’s a conversation sisters need to take up amongst themselves…Until there’s mutual respect there will never be equality. And until sisters stop selling themselves short that day isn’t even on the horizon. How sad is that?
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Stevie Turner said:
Ah, Robert Redford, my favourite actor. Still attractive even though he’s in his eighties.
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jenanita01 said:
He will grow old and lonely… I hope!
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Stevie Turner said:
Yeah, too right.
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jenanita01 said:
Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
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Stevie Turner said:
Thanks for the re-blog!
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freiedenkerin said:
This man seem to be a rather dumb person. Well, he get’s old too. Maybe he changes his mind in some years.
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Stevie Turner said:
Let’s hope…
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OIKOS™-Publishing said:
Great posting, Stevie! I agree with you, and think this man can not accept his own age. He uses younger women as an mirror of his lost youth, and perhaps possibilities he missed in the past, without money. Michael
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Stevie Turner said:
Yes, I think you’re right, Michael.
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OIKOS™-Publishing said:
🙂 I know some of these men.
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Stevie Turner said:
I think we all do.
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OIKOS™-Publishing said:
🙂
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mswwrites said:
No surprise he is not married. Women and men of all ages are beautiful in their own way.
I am recently married a 2nd time; hubby is 56 and handsome and I am 48. I love him as is!!
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Stevie Turner said:
Congratulations! Thanks for your comment.
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franklparker said:
Sounds more than merely “unattractive”! Sounds like a dinosaur.
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Stevie Turner said:
Yep.
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