Do women really age worse than men?

[CoalTit]

I just read a novel where the protagonist thinks at one point how women age worse than men, and it took me back to a couple of boyfriends in the nineties saying that as if it were just something that everyone knows. I was really surprised that anyone would think the sex that goes bald ages better. Do any women think men age better than women?
YABU: yes, women age (physically) worse than men do.
YANBU: no, men as a class age just as badly as women.

This is the hundredth snipe at men dating younger women.
Why?
Just let it go.
What have you got to offer a man?😆

If you took a group of ordinary men aged 50+ and put them next to a group of ordinary women aged 50+, I do not think the men would be all Harrison Ford and George Clooney while the women are all Waynetta Slob.

What an odd way to look at life. I've spent most of mine being in the position to ask what could a man offer me.
If you're a woman who can't say the same, you need to work on your confidence.
If you're a man who thinks in middle age you hold the cards, odds on you're in for a shock when you get out there are meet women for real.

I don't know, but I don't think a sexy older man with lots to offer a beautiful young woman would be spending his time spatting around on Mumsnet.

I'm a man.
What have you got to offer?
I'm marrying a woman 12 yrs younger. My ex-wife was 7 yrs younger. All the dates I've ever had have been with women more youthful than myself.

I think most people age badly post 40.

Objectively most older women look far better than men of an equivalent age.

Objectively? So based on facts, and not based on feelings or opinions?

So what if we do, does it matter?
People on the whole all age differently due to lifestyles and genetics.

Cool story bro.

I'm sure @5128gap has plenty to offer.

My wife is 5 years older than I. We still have lots to offer each other, although I hold no cards. The pack is literally empty 😂

And yet here you are demanding to know what women on Mumsnet can offer you. Even if your story were true, that just makes it even more tragic.

Although seriously @Kashmirsilver , I thought the new school term had started already 😂

Shurrup up old man.

You love your emoji's don't you?

@Kashmirsilver people don't look the same post 40 as they did at 20 but I know a lot of people who haven't aged badly post 40.

Do grown men really use emoji's as much as you?

It was me using the emojis as I was laughing out loud at @Kashmirsilver . I didn't realise that people still bragged about having younger partners but accept he might have been posting tongue in cheek.

@Lunar270 No he uses them too.

I feel sorry for his partner when she is post 40 if that's how he feels.

I still think getting older is down to genes a lot of the time. Also, how someone looks after themselves.

Looking older not getting older, sorry.

Nope. In general I think men age worse. Baldness and fat is really aging.

Not for the cool kids drinking cider in the park 😉

Must be your amazing intellect and personality that's attracting these young women, eh?

@JOFFCV ah ok I missed that so apologies.

Yes it's definitely variable. Too variable to be able to break it down to male vs female. Genes, ethnicity and like you say, how you take care of yourself.

Of course it’s not true.

I can't imagine someone like you would get worse with age. I don't even have to have seen you to know it instinctively!
In fact I'd bet my house that you'll be enjoying the same level of success with gorgeous young women when you're old as you have so far.🙂

We're all missing the possibility that Mr Lover Lover, rather than being a teenager, is in fact 95 and enjoying red-hot liaisons with sexy 80-somethings, although he still misses that certain something and therefore has to demand that women on Mumsnet tell him how they can please him.

The more I think about it, the more likely it seems to be.

In which case, hats off to him. But careful you don't overload the circuitry in your pacemaker.

Don't. My daughter works in a care home and she's caught the residents at it. Fair play to them but was a shock for her as she wasn't expecting it!

Maybe it was Mr Boombastic getting fantastic?

These threads always bring out the odd 'uns.
Its a particular personality type that comes onto a forum where the users are disproportionately likely to be of a certain demographic to deliberately promote an opinion designed to encourage that demographic to feel bad about themselves.
People whose world is seemingly populated with great looking older men can gaze in awe and wax lyrical about them to their hearts content. Makes not a jot of difference to the real world as I know it.