does something happen to women when they reach a certain age?

[mauricetinkler]

50s and 60s perhaps. They go all uptight and weird and develop this huge chip on their shoulders and just seem so...angry with the world. I'm seeing it more and more...

Did mummy send you to your room again, Maurice?

Also, were they calling the police as they twitched the curtains?

maurice tinkler
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

silly little boy

And were you sat on their lawn, naked and crying?

Be honest, maurice. You can tell us. We've all been there.

no tethersend - they were reading the daily mail, thus further fuelling their anger with the world

Beat me on the bottom with a Woman's Weekly.

Much edgier than the DM.

I think this is the age when their husbands leave them for younger women, and tell them it's their fault for "letting themselves go".

i thought studies showed older people in this coutry to ecome more confident in themselves, more satisfied, more tolerant ...

but why have research when your opinion will do?

I'm not angry with the world tonight

I just keyed ANGRY MIDDLE AGED WOMEN into Google and it brought up 6.5m results. So clearly I am not going down some blind alley with this, Eggy.

did you find me maurice

I hate generalisations but last year we went on holiday at a different time to usual and the resort was full of couples, probably in their 60s. I have never heard so much moaning! Everything was wrong for them! By the end of the week I could have cheerfully beaten them all to death with their own Daily Mails!

Oh crap, I'm 51, maybe I am in Maurice's angry women group! Have to say I'm generally very happy, more so now than when I was younger as I've become more assertive. Maybe we just suffer fools (and whingeing gits) less gladly.

I jsut googled "bitter middle aged men" and got 5.5m results.

I'm younger and i'm a chippy, harriden [hangry] thats me in the hat, big red face. YABU

Has anybody else noticed how middle aged married couples seem to kind of morph into each other (on the looks front) after a certain length of time? Any oldies out there to explain this one to me?

Only when we read crap like the OP. Makes me very uptight and wierd, I can tell you.

What length of time would that be maurice? You could be middle aged & married only a couple of weeks. You wouldn't be generalising by any chance - would you?

Perhaps middle aged women become grumpy because of middle aged men?

YOU try being laugh a minute with a vagina drier than Ghandis flip flop, ok sunshine?

(not really)

"YOU try being laugh a minute with a vagina drier than Ghandis flip flop, ok sunshine?"

Yeah - like all 50 year old women! Bloody hell, I hate the casual ageism on this site!

Oh

The 'not really' didn't give you a clue?

Not all, but some people (men and women) get to a certain age and start the

'I just say what I think, because I don't care what people think of me anymore'
'oh, you know me, i just say it how it is'.

Complain more in restaurants etc. don't see why they should keep quiet anymore.

Often results in rudeness though.

Ooops. Blame the varifocals!

You been looking at my photos Maurice?