Poll: Growing old is easier for unattractive people?
Jamie in hiding asked:
I’m sure your first thought on this statement is outrage.
I’m sure your first thought on this statement is outrage.
But what is your second thought??
Physically unattractive.
Everyone is NOT physically attractive. Fact of life. Deal with it.
oh bear- LOL!! If only that were true. My life would be soooo much easier. 
3 people deserve BA. UGH!!!!
Thanks y’all.
make that 4.
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May 23rd, 2011 at 11:09 am
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thats mean
everyone is attractive in their own way
May 25th, 2011 at 11:45 pm
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I think so because they already look bad.. but it would be hard for attractive people to accept aging. That’s why I live everday like it’s my last.. and don’t worry about that til my time comes. I’ll probably end up getting everything perfect by the time I start aging.
May 26th, 2011 at 3:08 am
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second thought was how shallow of a person you must be
May 28th, 2011 at 8:01 pm
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oh yes, most definitely.
I looked at a picture of Priscilla Presley recently. She was such a beauty in her youth. I believe her whole self-concept revolved around her appearance and fame of being Elvis’s wife and ex-wife. Anyway, it looks like she has had all kinds of plastic surgery to keep up that appearance, but it just looks so fake and sad to me. She is just one example. I think many people, especially women, who are attractive and have lived their lives with that public reputation of beauty, have a difficult time accepting the normal aging process and the consequent slipping into the background of the plain and unnoticed.
May 30th, 2011 at 5:46 am
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I think it would depend. If the attractive person in question were the type which relied solely upon their looks to get by in life, and that physical attractiveness were fading, then yes, it would be more difficult for those people to age than it would be for people who didn’t have that to rely on to begin with. Not every attractive person is so absorbed with appearance that they fear gray hair, wrinkles and gravity, though. Some actually put considerable value on mind and spirit as well.
Similarly, I’ve seen people who could be considered “unattractive” by societal norms adjust poorly to aging as well.
It depends upon the individual’s focus….if the person feels that physical attractiveness is all that they have to offer the world/the only thing which matters, then that person is going to take aging poorly, either because they’re losing what they once had, or because they never had it to begin with and are consequently bitter at having even less than they once did. If the person in question happens to understand that there’s more to their existence than the shell that they’re only going to be losing one day anyhow, then hopefully that individual will invest their time in more worthwhile pursuits than gazing in the mirror counting their gray hair and wrinkles and considering botox injections.
June 1st, 2011 at 6:53 am
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Ha- interesting question!
Well, it is funny but there is a friend of the family and she was not what one would call a looker:-) but as everyone’s aged, she basically has maintained her same look where some of the beautiful people have taken a plummet (except my mom who is still gorgeous
) okay sorry to digress;-)
So now she looks great maybe only because she looks like she always did.
Soooo….maybe it is easier for them. Not every attractive person ages poorly so that should be taken in to consideration and not every unattractive person ages well.
Getting old and losing your looks no matter where you may have started is probably no picnic either way I’d think.
June 4th, 2011 at 4:04 am
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This is very VAIN and beauty is only skin deep. I am a very beautiful person but, from the inside out, and it really shows. As I grew older I have come to understand that beauty is a gift and a curse in a sense. As far as aging is concerned, I just take my vitamins everyday and will start to exercises because, I feel according to how we deal with our bodies now that we are young, that will help assist us from aging when we are older. And as far as your statement goes unattractive people still have feelings too so, yes they feel like aging is not helping them, if anything they feel even worse then the attractive people because, it is like no hope, but, on the other hand they probably don’t care either and attractiveness really doesn’t matter to them because it really never did.
June 5th, 2011 at 10:27 am
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I disagree with that… I would say that it depends how people takes care with their bodies… Attractive people tends to worry more as they gets older, compared to the opposite…So I think, it doesn’t necessarily mean that attractive people doesn’t get older faster than the unattractive ones…
Edit: When we hit that *** magic number*** ( I mean,senior citizen), does it really matter??? ha ha ha…But for now, staying healthy is the most important, and that applies vise versa to all of us…
June 7th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
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Ha–I live in the land of plastic–the real silicone valley.I’ve seen more before and after breasts than any non-medical non-porn star should ever have to look at–I’ve worked with 73 yr old cocktail waitresses that are full of collagen and held together with tape and pins–it’s really sad. I always tell the young ones to develop some character–they’re going to need it as they age. To answer your question: I think it’s much easier for someone not so attached to their physical beauty to grow old—may actually be a relief in a way. No longer feeling a need to compete and they win the race ,anyway, if they’ve developed inner strength and confidence –a sense of self that gives inner beauty.
June 10th, 2011 at 1:30 am
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i dig your question, and bump everyone else saying how beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and beauty is skin deep, first of all ugly, unattractive, losers say that, rich ugly people dont, just average blue collar ugly people do, your either hot or your not, and your right everyone is not hot, just a fact of life, so with that said, it is easier for an already ugly person to age cuz its nothing new to be ugly, ur just ugly and old now, for actually attractive people it can be a strain, cuz we have to go thru wrinkles, and frown lines, denture,etc, so its a possibility that your going from hot to not, depending how well you take care of yourself
June 10th, 2011 at 6:59 am
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No, i don’t think that’s so.
I think growing old is hard on everyone, in their way. My mate is incredibly attractive and was when he was younger, too. He never notices his looks, but he can’t help but feel the pains that his rough military life has left for him in his joints, his back, his legs…
I’m not as attractive as he, and I mourn the slow loss of my youth and what beauty that went with it.
I think, of the two of us, he has a much more difficult time with the transition. The pain of his past injuries outweighs the pain of a few wrinkles and graying hair. But with men, these qualities are indicative of their societal worth; their status in a community is not indicated by their appearance, but by their financial worth.
For a woman, the loss of her beauty reflects the loss of her “societal” worth; biologically, women beyond breeding age are not given stature and value by many in this society, and some women take this to heart.
Individually, we each may value wisdom, intelligence, maturity, or a great range of different characteristics, but as a society, we value youth and beauty in women. But as we grow older, we tend to care less about what society thinks, and realize that person worth is much more, and I think that’s the blessing of this hardship.