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Is 30 too old to be deemed conventionally attractive

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OneSnugLemonTiger · 09/10/2025 15:17

Or not

OP posts:
Nofencesitting · 09/10/2025 15:24

Not another ageist thread.

There are beautiful, attractive, pretty, women in every age group. Right up to those lucky women with lovely cheekbones that are beautiful in their eighties and nineties.

It's quite natural OP to look in the mirror and see the changes to yourself as years go by but it doesn't mean you aren't still attractive. It just means you are a slightly different version of yourself.

Member869894 · 09/10/2025 15:23

What a depressing and frankly moronic post

RobertaFirmino · 09/10/2025 15:23

fireandlightening · 09/10/2025 15:21

This question exposes your ageist hang-ups, I'm afraid. Obviously, people at every stage and age in life are and can be beautiful and even 'conventionally attractive'!

The recently departed Jane Goodall, for example. She was still beautiful at 91.

Satisfiedkitty · 09/10/2025 15:23

GeorgeClooneyshouldhavemarriedme · 09/10/2025 15:21

Well I'm 57 and drop dead gorgeous.

So no.

Absolutely. I'm 54 and stunning.

Jellybunny56 · 09/10/2025 15:22

Being “conventionally attractive” or not isn’t dictates by age. You can be 50 and conventionally attractive or 20 and not.

GeorgeClooneyshouldhavemarriedme · 09/10/2025 15:21

Well I'm 57 and drop dead gorgeous.

So no.

MasterBeth · 09/10/2025 15:21

Yes.

That's why there are no conventionally attractive celebrities over the age of 29.

RobertaFirmino · 09/10/2025 15:21

Yes. I woke up on the morning of my 30th birthday, looked in the mirror and discovered I'd turned into a grotesque old hag.

fireandlightening · 09/10/2025 15:21

This question exposes your ageist hang-ups, I'm afraid. Obviously, people at every stage and age in life are and can be beautiful and even 'conventionally attractive'!

NooNakedJacuzziness · 09/10/2025 15:20

Wait til you get to your 50s, they make you wear a sack on your head and ring a bell while saying “unclean, unclean”

FurForksSake · 09/10/2025 15:20

Helen Mirren is 80 and conventionally attractive. Depends on who you are trying to be attractive for.

shellyleppard · 09/10/2025 15:20

Depends on how much you base someone on looks alone....

OneSnugLemonTiger · 09/10/2025 15:19

It’s more how I feel about myself

OP posts:
XWKD · 09/10/2025 15:18

Don't be ridiculous!

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 09/10/2025 15:18

Yes, looking at anyone over 30 makes me physically sick.

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