I came of age in the late 70s/early 80s. Women then still looked pretty darn good. Too many young women these days look like overweight, sexless blobs. Totally unappealing. And a lot of men are not much better. Honestly, I’d say about 50% of young women these days look undatable to me.
When I look at other couples in public, a lot of them just seem hopelessly out of shape. They way they walk and act implies they are damaged in some way. I rarely, if ever, noticed that growing up.
From what I’ve seen, American physical attractiveness peaked in the early 1960s (for both sexes).
Only 50%? Where do you live? I want to move there. And a lot of the ugly is not physical, esp. in places like LA, it goes to the bone.
With nose rings and tats.
“From what I’ve seen, American physical attractiveness peaked in the early 1960s (for both sexes).”
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Nah,you’re just getting old-——old people always feel that way.
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what you don’t like the look of nose rings, tatoos and fat gut?
I told my wife that based on the pool of young single women that I see everywhere when I am out, I’d hate to be 20 years old and in the market for a girlfriend or wife.
And if even some of what I read about college campuses now is accurate, the pool of non wacko females is seriously shrinking. Plus the dating environment there appears to be toxic.
In the early 70s I had a few dates with “feminists”. While fairly mild compared to today’s version, if there was no good sex involved, I moved on pretty quickly.
“When I look at other couples in public, a lot of them just seem hopelessly out of shape. They way they walk and act implies they are damaged in some way. I rarely, if ever, noticed that growing up.”
Oh please! I noticed older people overweight and out of shape back in the 70’s and 80’s. Granted they were not morbidly obese like a lot are today but women were overweight and older men had “beer bellies”.
You are absolutely correct. My parents were in their prime from the mid 1950s, to the early 1960s. In all the pictures of them from that time period they literally look like movie stars. As you say however the women in the late 1970s to early 1980s were still looking “pretty darn good”. They still were keeping fit... the fashion just started slipping in a long steady slide to the nasty looking Chinese relaxed fit fat body suits they wear around these days.
My wife is a retired nurse, she says the worst thing that ever happened to nurse wear was when they dropped the duty dresses and started wearing pajamas (scrubs) with draw strings. Now you've got all of these fat men and women running around in clothes that look like the housekeepers attire. She says you can't tell the nurses and the doctors from the guy who is cleaning the toilet and there is no incentive to keep yourself looking good.
One time my crew and I did an inspection of a Catholic High School. They had pictures of all the graduating classes up on the wall going down the main hall. It was incredible to see the progression from the good looking kids of yesteryear up to the fat bodied slobby kids of today. It is no wonder that 70% can't even get into the army.
My wife and I ride a tandem bicycle to stay fit. It is amazing to me to see that most of the people out riding bicycles these days are 40 or older. There are very few young people who are serious riders.
As my wife would say, “For every skank piece of bread, there's a skank piece of cheese to go with it.”
Start hanging out at the gyms
It’s not just out of shape blobs much of the turn off is ATTITUDE.
People are filled with angst and are set of like a tinderbox on stupid issues.
As men became more effeminate and women more macculine, we lost the status of the classic roles and approaches.
Losing G-d, family and country created this void.
Just think back to the Archie Bunker TV show theme song...
“And you knew who you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men...