I don't think men more easily look younger than their age, it's that we expect women to look like they're in their 20s or younger forever. When men age the way human's are naturally supposed to, it's considered normal(which it is) but women on the other hand are expected to defy nature but when they age like normal…

And this translates to real life, because men eat this up and believe that men age better than women, meaning they look 'distinguished' and women the same age are old bags. Please.

I'm not really disagreeing with anything you said but oftentimes I think it can simply be blamed on men more easily looking younger than their age than women can.

Only it wasn't the statement that you used when you started this thread. But nice try deflecting. Just admit that you were wrong, it's really quite a nice experience once you get over your manhurtz, I promise.

No, I do: facial lines are directly observable and quantifiable. His are both longer, and deeper. Facial lines increase in depth and length with age; ergo, he looks older than Winslet in that respect. This is an objective statement, not my subjective opinion.

But the lines on his face are an objective quality, not a subjective one. And he has more of them, and they are objectively deeper than Winslet's. They don't look "rugged rather than old" - they look old. Younger men don't have them, or have less of them. Ergo, they age him. "Rugged" is a code word men use for, well,…

So basically...you have a subjective and biased view on a topic and keep calling it an argument? Ok, got it.

I would honestly prefer a younger male actor as Bond. It would be a hell of a lot more believable, and more attractive to me as a young woman. But it's not my fantasies they're pandering to, with that character. It's men's.

But DiCaprio has - objectively, not subjectively - deeper lines on his face. How then can you say that Winslet "looks older"? Both actors are vocal about not going under the knife/using botox? I can describe in objective terms why they both look about the same age - or if anything DiCaprio looks slightly older, which…

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And they never will be. Because we aren't the same. The same way that a brilliant, but very young male actor would never be given a Bond role because hey, only older men are wise and strong and manly. >.<

It's obviously subjective perception because to me Kate Winslet looks MUCH older than Dicaprio

I went to my 20th high school reunion and thought, who invited the guys from the class of '78? across the board, jocks to nerds, they looked a decade older than the women in our class.

NO. And no.

Patriarchal society has conditioned us to find female aging dramatic and male aging unnoticeable. Yes, we are convinced it's true, but we are seeing people through bias from the day we are born. Normative culture can make anything attractive: In some cultures extremely long necks, tiny feet, fat women, men in…

Women are valued for their looks; physical looks in both men and women tend to peak when young. I assume you are a man so your perception is in your own best interest. Women will notice crows feet, wrinkles, thinning hair, under eye bags, flabby stomach, moobs and all the other accoutrements of middle and old age in…

Fair or not fair: Men do NOT more easily look younger than their age than women can. That's a self-perpetuated myth. What is true is that standards for men are so much lower than standards for women. The men I went to school with? HOLY SHIZZLE! Did not age well AT ALL and none of them looks younger.

Not even true; men just get more leeway. Robert Redford started looking like a linen sack in his 40s and nobody cared.

Really? I've never found that men look younger than their ages, at least not at any greater rate than women do. I've met plenty of 50-something men who THINK they could pass for 37, but they don't actually.

I just don't think that's true. I look at guys I went to school with 20 years ago and they look SO much older than the women from the same graduating class do. They get fatter, balder, and if they still have their hair it's grey. The women look great - most stayed in shape, same color hair, more flattering…