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Is 30 too old to be deemed conventionally attractive

140 replies

OneSnugLemonTiger · 09/10/2025 15:17

Or not

OP posts:
AgentPidge · 09/10/2025 15:33

No.

Starlight1984 · 09/10/2025 15:33

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 09/10/2025 15:18

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

I feel like you and I could be friends.

MaxBeth · 09/10/2025 15:34

Yes. In fact, I started to wear a mourning veil when I turned 30 both to shield the world from my grotesque old lady face and to grieve for the loss of my youth and beauty.

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 09/10/2025 15:34

Starlight1984 · 09/10/2025 15:33

I feel like you and I could be friends.

Not if you were born in 1984 🤮

Silverbirchleaf · 09/10/2025 15:34

MasterBeth · 09/10/2025 15:25

Sorry, but 91 year olds are not deemed conventionally attractive by Western societies, even if they still have beautiful bone structure and beautiful souls.

Yes they are. Many older women are conventionally attractive.

IMakeDealsWithTheDevil · 09/10/2025 15:36

Depends if you'd call yourself a vacuous arsehole or not I guess.

Coconutter24 · 09/10/2025 15:36

OneSnugLemonTiger · 09/10/2025 15:19

It’s more how I feel about myself

Are you attractive? Surely you didn’t just wake up when you were 30 and started wondering if you were no longer conventionally attractive

kellygoeswest · 09/10/2025 15:36

Rachel Weisz is 55 and probably one of the most beautiful women out there (at least in my opinion!)

OneSnugLemonTiger · 09/10/2025 15:37

Coconutter24 · 09/10/2025 15:36

Are you attractive? Surely you didn’t just wake up when you were 30 and started wondering if you were no longer conventionally attractive

I started to notice ageing from 26.

OP posts:
Starlight1984 · 09/10/2025 15:38

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 09/10/2025 15:34

Not if you were born in 1984 🤮

If I wear a bag over my head for meet-ups?

Redpeach · 09/10/2025 15:38

Stop navel gazing and go and work in an old peoples home, just appreciate what you have

OnyxNight · 09/10/2025 15:38

I'm seeing Taylor Swift all over my feed on her press tour and she looks very conventionally attractive in her mid-30s. I feel I look a lot better in my 40s than I did in my (sleep-deprived toddler-mum) 30s.

MaxBeth · 09/10/2025 15:38

Surely you started to notice ageing from the age of 0? Unless you’re still less than a foot tall and weigh 7lbs.

Starlight1984 · 09/10/2025 15:39

OneSnugLemonTiger · 09/10/2025 15:37

I started to notice ageing from 26.

Gosh. Had you had a hard life?

Starlight1984 · 09/10/2025 15:39

MaxBeth · 09/10/2025 15:34

Yes. In fact, I started to wear a mourning veil when I turned 30 both to shield the world from my grotesque old lady face and to grieve for the loss of my youth and beauty.

Edited

These comments are making me laugh 😂

Round3HereWeGo · 09/10/2025 15:40

Wtf are you talking about? You clearly don't know what conventionally attractive means. It has fuck all to do with age.

This has gone to be one of the more moronic posts I've seen on here and that's saying something.

MyLimeGuide · 09/10/2025 15:40

Yes.

IReallyNeedThisToWork · 09/10/2025 15:41

Absolutely not!! I am 58 and was recently stopped by a (somewhat younger!) gentleman who told me I was stunning! 😁 I’ll take that! 😂

FurForksSake · 09/10/2025 15:41

I don’t think I’ve ever been called attractive, conventional or not. Which is good because I’m 42 and obviously now invisible and well past my sell by date. Lucky for me it means I never noticed the slow fade of my bloom, I never bloomed at all 😆

arcticpandas · 09/10/2025 15:42

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”

I'm "only" 45 but I am really appreciating being able to walk around with noone trying to hassle me. Or if they do it's more likely to be for a donation than for my looks🤣

Starlight1984 · 09/10/2025 15:42

kellygoeswest · 09/10/2025 15:36

Rachel Weisz is 55 and probably one of the most beautiful women out there (at least in my opinion!)

Penelope Cruz (51), Jennifer Connelly (54), Julia Roberts (57), Jennifer Lopez (56 - WTF?!), Salma Hayek (59 - another WTF?!).

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 09/10/2025 15:42

Is MN always full of twattish threads in the afternoon, or is it just today? I’m not normally here at this time.

SalamiSammich · 09/10/2025 15:43

What do you value yourself for beyond your looks?

And I mean stuff that isn't for attracting men. I'm a good friend.

Objectively, men who value hotness over substance are losers and not men to date.

MasterBeth · 09/10/2025 15:43

Silverbirchleaf · 09/10/2025 15:34

Yes they are. Many older women are conventionally attractive.

Yes, many older women are conventionally attractive.

No, no women in their nineties are conventionally attractive. Which 90 y.o. women are admired by for how conventionally physically attractive they are? Who are the 90 y.o. heart-throbs?

MaxBeth · 09/10/2025 15:43

arcticpandas · 09/10/2025 15:42

I'm "only" 45 but I am really appreciating being able to walk around with noone trying to hassle me. Or if they do it's more likely to be for a donation than for my looks🤣

It’s great isn’t it? I see lots of really attractive younger women and the amount of unsolicited shit they probably have to put up with will be off the scale.