Comments on: Newsflash: Women Reach Their Expiration Date at 20 (And 15-Year-Olds are Totally Hott)

By: Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » Scattered Thoughts on Women and Expiration Dates

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 02:27:01 +0000

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By: Tanooki Joe

Tanooki Joe — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:38:28 +0000

Tanooki Joe, you said that, at 19, you don’t find 19-year-olds shallow, so it’s not appropriate for e.g. me at 27 to find a 19-year-old shallow. By that standard, you at 19 may not find a 14-year-old shallow.

Hardly. Most people of any age are shallow, and my age cohort has no shortage of them. I just don’t like sweeping generalizations, especially when it includes people I highly respect. :)

By: Hershele Ostropoler

Hershele Ostropoler — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:21:11 +0000

Tanooki Joe, you said that, at 19, you don’t find 19-year-olds shallow, so it’s not appropriate for e.g. me at 27 to find a 19-year-old shallow. By that standard, you at 19 may not find a 14-year-old shallow.

By: Hershele Ostropoler

Hershele Ostropoler — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:15:50 +0000

I know what Robert means. There’s a society-wide standard of beauty, and if I weren’t talking to a group of intensely argumentative people who like to be contrary I’d add “and we all know what it is.” Robert presumably thinks Mrs. Robert* is beautiful. He knows she doesn’t look like Angelina Jolie or whomever

*Apologies if I’m slighting a fellow Lucy Stoner

By: cleojones

cleojones — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 02:45:36 +0000

[quote]# Robert Says:
December 1st, 2005 at 5:05 pm
He’s just describing reality. Females have their physical attractiveness peak at a young age. Deal.[/quote]

He is describing his reality and your reality perchance. Granted,
he might be describing the reality of most males towards
females. I would not know. If this is true, it is in a womon’s best interest to perceive herself outside such an unevolved, loathful belief system.

By: alex

alex — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:10:59 +0000

Gee, I always took shaved genitals to be more of a minimalist aesthetic thing.

You know–if you’ve got a livingroom with nothing but one Eames chair, a glass coffee table, a Noguchi floor lamp, and a tasteful arrangement of bamboo in a square black vase–you don’t have to be a feng shui master to think that a guy with hairy balls would totally throw off the effect of the room.

By: Tapetum

Tapetum — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 04:39:41 +0000

Um, Robert? Somehow I think “physical attractiveness” means something very different to me than it apparently does to you. You like older women with pendulous breasts – they are physically attractive, to you. You seem to be confusing that with commercially beautiful, which is a somewhat different standard – somewhat closer to “something the majority of people in a given population would find physically attractive”. The later can be a (somewhat) objective standard. The later is very, very personal.

Or to quote from somewhere else “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

By: Ron Sullivan

Ron Sullivan — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 04:08:43 +0000

Unless you are teabagging, hair on balls is not an issue.

Baloney. I don’t know exactly how it gets there, but (ptui) it gets there, even with the longest yard.

By: EricP

EricP — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 03:14:18 +0000

Also, re: oral sex, I’ve heard that removing ball hair can seriously increase sensitivity and pleasure.

If it requires shaving or waxing I’ll take your word for it;-).

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 03:05:44 +0000

And this conversation has officially crossed the line to “too far.”

Yeah, really, kind of undermines the whole “don’t talk about naughty things because my daddy reads this site!” meme.