[tom h]

Ladies, do NOT believe this article. My wife gets lovelier every year and we both crossed the 50 threshold fairly recently.

And while I have been 100% faithful to my bride of 23 years, I cannot help but notice so many other extremely lovely women past 50, especially including Susan Sarandon (yeah, she's a lib but who want to TALK with her?) and Peggy Noonan.

Susan Sarandon:

Peggy Noonan:

P.S. I disagree violently with another portion of the above article, specifically the comment that Kim Cattrall (of "Sex and the City") is a glamorous golden girl. She was sl-tty looking when the show was on the air, and now that she's 50 she has not aged well -- so much hard living, I suppose that she's now OLD and sl-tty looking.

[bill1952]

Well of course most of them are no longer looked at as sex objects.
Neither are us men - Welcome to the reality club.

[Frantzie]

I don’t watch TV and never watched that sex in the city garbage. This Kim woman is frightening.

[meatloaf]

Susan Sarandon? I don’t care what you say. I can’t stomach that woman.

[texmexis best]

Obviously the author has spent any tme in Texas.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

A survey has found that eight out of ten women over the age of 50 think members of the opposite sex no longer notice them.

This was survey of what WOMEN think that men think about them. Not an actual survey of how men view women over 50. Two thoughts:

1. Any woman who really thinks this is incredibly shallow and bases her entire worth on whether men are leering at her sexually as she walks down the street. As a prior poster pointed out, none of us are supermodels at the age of 50.

2. Its incredibly unfair to use this as a comment on the value that men place on women over 50. Most men love and respect the women in their lives no matter how old they are. I get really tired of these MSM articles and surveys that make men out to be only interested in women for sex.

[Raebie]

Michelle Pfeifer needs to sue her surgeon and even out those cheek implants. Gah.

[reagan_fanatic]

It’s ironic that the two things that lifted Susan Sarandon so high in Hollywood now dangle around her ankles.

[Tublecane]

I’m a long way from 50 myself, and can’t intelligently comment on what I’ll pay attention to come that time. Except to say that it amorous attention is based on sex, which is based on reproduction, and aside from a few outliers 50 year old women just ain’t that fertile. No wonder, whatever their age, men are primarily drawn to women in their prime child-bearing years. Namely, 15-34.

Humans are of course infinitely more complicated than my coarse analysis suggests. But for every “mature” fetishist, there are scores of regular guys.

[Tublecane]

“three-quarters of women in their sixth decade believe they have lost their individual identity by being labelled as a ‘mum’.”

What a crock. That’s just another social role they play. Were they dehumanized by being a child, teen, or “Young Miss”? Am I locked in a box by being a bachelor and a “Sir”? Heck no.

[dfwgator]

If she wasn’t such a freaking moonbat, Julianne Moore would be my ultimate over-50 woman.

[RowdyFFC]

Who are these women they polled? Must be the Sotomayor, Kagan, Rosie O’Donnell, and oinker femi-Nazi crowd. They hate men anyway!

I have to admit that being some man’s eye-candy has never been priority in my life. However, most men my age ceased to be eye-candy long before I did. I do admit to picking a Rock Hudson look alike for my husband, but quickly realized I forgot to check for brains and heart. It was a problem easily solved. But mostly I was too busy in competition with men in the roping arena to be crushed if I wasn’t their eye-candy.

If you interested in male companionship or a solid relationship in or out of marriage, you’re going to have to understand that you have to keep yourself in a manner that is attractive to them. You’re going to have to approach them with kind eyes, a winning smile and an attitude that allows them to be men and appreciatite it. And there’s no rule anywhere that to do that you have to be a subservant to do so.

As an over 50’s lady, and I can speak for several of us, men and the male perspective is still fascinating. We’re not required to play mind games or be flirty tarts. Maturity brings with it a take it or leave it attitude that includes an attitude that there’s more than one fish in the sea, and that the many are also more content with themselves at this age. Also, remember that age 50 brings problems to males that requires understanding and patience and the confidence to be open enough to help them deal with it.

Rock on! Keep yourselves well, age gracefully and with confidence...the men will still take notice if they’re of a mind to!

[SonofReagan]

I’m 56 and I don’t look at women over 40 or so.

[Cementjungle]

Rachael Welch at age 70:

[bgill]

Of course women are finding it harder to get men to notice them - there is a shortage of real men out there who would notice. There's far too many girlie men, metrosexuals, and those in vogue gays out there now days. Real men are fast becoming extinct.

[raybbr]

IMDB search for actresses born from 1950 to 1959 Some of them are still lookers...

[Prince of Space]

I'm 57 and still get checked out, although less than I used to. I chalk it up to being blonde and chesty, but whatever.

Mrs. Prince of Space

[Mr. Jeeves]

Only white women. Asian women still look 30, and we can see them just fine. :)

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Very interesting discussion. I find that men over 50 either have massive beer guts or just want to jump bones. The guys that I find acceptable don’t have the confidence in themselves to approach women, because they have been through too much. Kind of like the poster who said she likes living alone, some men over 50 just give up......as do some women.

[rabidralph]

Pfeiffer has an extra dose of botox in one cheek.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I was once invited to a “cougar club” in a college town, and was impressed at how organized it was behind the scenes. Far more than a typical bar or club.

To start with, it was actually a private club, owned by a wealthy widowed cougar lady, and set up for her and her girlfriends, but managed by a professional club manager who could veto the club committee proposals if they endangered the club.

New members and college boys were vetted before admission, and the rules were very strict. Dress and behavior codes. Nothing unlawful in the club. But from there it got interesting.

The women actually rated their escorts on scorecards, and had time limits on them, a few months before they had to swap them out for a new one.

They even prearranged how much liquor would go into the woman’s and her escort’s drinks ahead of time. If she wanted him drunk, his drink would be fortified with grain alcohol. If he couldn’t hold his liquor, he might as well be drinking Shirley Temples.

And, love conquering all, every now and then one of the woman and her escort would fall in love and get married. And one of the perks of the club was that everybody attended weddings, as well as kicked in money so that they would be nice, even upscale.