Honest opinions ... is a UK 14/16 seen as unattractive for dating as a 50 year old?

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I'm online dating for a while. My face is decent and I'd consider myself relatively attractive in the looks stakes but it is my body that men seem to dislike.
As above , I'm that size, 5'7', proportioned except for a wide , flabby meno belly.Im 2.5stone overweight on the scales.
I weight train and walk and run over the week.. so I exercise every day. Look after my appearance/ clothes/ grooming etc but I really believe it's my body that turns them off .
Honestly, especially to men on here, is that size and body type unattractive to you on a woman who is 50?
What are your experiences and more so, what do you find attractive out of interest ?
Thanks.
Lemon

This thread gets even more depressing. Women seem to have such a low view of men, it is really sad. No wonder they're going for younger women when the majority of women their age think they're superior and think all men are sad losers(this thread just proves it) who let themselves go. I think I'd go for someone more fun and less opinionated and bitter too and if that meant younger so be it.

Any guy I've met/slept with, dated or married has been within 8 years either side, oldest being 5 years older youngest being 7 years younger (and I married him for my sins). I've never had an issue with being hit on by much older men, but maybe I have a slightly higher bar regarding age.

What makes you think younger women have a higher opinion of older men than older women do? Because ime young women are WAY more scathing about old guys hitting on them than older women would be. If you were OK with it, I'd say you're in a minority. So whether they're 'going for' younger women because the older ones are 'bitter' (ie, don't fancy them!) or because they'd rather have a younger one anyway, is neither here nor there. They will still be highly unlikely to get a young one.

Until you have been on the online dating sites you won't know how it is. I haven't but as I said before my young looking slim mum tried in her late 50s and was getting message from 80 year old men, the men in the age group she would be interested in listed their upper age in a woman as 50, it is depressing. Close friend was also trying dating sites in her mid 40s, same thing, either much older men or young men looking for a quick shag.

I think I'd go for someone more fun and less opinionated and bitter too and if that meant younger so be it.

In other words, someone more naive and easy to manipulate.

And you can 'go for' whoever you like. Just like I could 'go for' Chris Hemsworth. Doesn't mean I have a snowball's chance of getting him. Same with your average 50 something guy chasing young women on the interwebs. It's not going to happen.

Ah but the important thing to remember is that when these aging creeps target our daughters, making a nuisance of themselves on their nights out (in a venue I go to they congregate in an area next to the women's toilets to accost and even touch women as they pass) the thing to remember is that this is older womens fault! Because if only we'd date them ourselves, they wouldn't have to do it you see.

Jeysus.

This thread.

It's fucking depressing.

I do think apps have made people go a bit wrong.

As a 50 year old happily married woman (size 8/10, 5' 8.5", two sisters one a size 6 at 5' 5" and 51 and one a size 8 at 5' 4" and 61 and we're not emaciated or gaunt).

I obviously don't go on apps & neither do my sisters who have been in their relationships for 25+ years.

However, I do go out into the world and get chatted up quite a bit. My experience is that there's a lot of chancers, from 25+, there's certainly a contingent of young men who have a 'thing' for older women. I presume it's porn-based. 90% of men my age really dislike me. 90% of women my age really like me.

Me and my sisters get a lot of love. Me most, I'm a man-attractor. Which is unfortunate for them.

Because my base reaction is:

Fuck Off.

I fucking love protecting young women on public transport from pervy blokes.

I get in there physically. Look them in the eye, and tell them to fuck off. I say, you leave her alone. I'm not scared of large blokes, I love taking them on.

Because they're generally utterly weak.

I've yet to be battered.

I have been in situations where men are looking to leap in and 'save me', they never need to though because bully horrible men are just a bit useless. They're always weak. They always fold.

Why do you think young women don’t think they’re sad losers too?

The older the sadder and more creepy.

Right.

I’ve been a young woman and I’ve been a middle-aged woman and I’m more sympathetic to the sad middle-aged men than I was when I was younger.