• Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      And yet, men in hollywood are allowed to look old while women all have to look like a teenager to be cast as anything other than a witch/grandma. We have normalized a very abnormal beauty standard and the least we can do is to stop perpetuating it by sharing these kinds of pictures.

      • NuanceDemon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        In very broad and entirely unbinding terms, some women have always found older men attractive because younger men are chaotic, emotionally charged, erratic, and not as safe a bet as an older one. This is normal human behaviour, or at least a variation of it, not some one-up men pulled on women.

        I say unbinding in the sense that its a general pattern and far from a hard rule.