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(04-13-2013 02:00 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  

I hate to be the bearer of bad news to the manosphere guys of the future, but women's standards don't change with age. If anything they get raised.

There was a blog post by Roissy/Heartiste a few years back that made this point by picking apart an article (neither of which I can find). Anyway, the point was that once women have dated a bunch of Alphas and then start earning serious money in their late 30s, they feel entitled to more than they did in their twenties. It's only in their mid-fifties and beyond women drop the standards.

I'm a bit older than most of you and I've seen this first hand: 45-year-old women with kids demanding Mr. Perfect. To their credit, some look really good, and I'm sure their egos are stroked by all the Beta losers who endlessly compliment them (which adds to their delusions, by the way).

So where younger women will say "I don't care as long as he's cute!" Older women (who are by now "Alpha widows") think they can pick men out like clothes, making insanely detailed demands regarding everything from height to salary to whether you own a boat (yes, I've actually seen the last of these).

Also, competition is not necessarily tougher for women at this age. A lot of women remain married and others have "given up on men," while still others are obese beyond description. So the hot ones are really in demand, although that's probably hard to believe if you're 21. The bad news is that if you plan on spending your life single it's not necessarily going to get easier per se as you hit your forties.

The good news is that you don't have to go for women in this age bracket -- you can always date younger. Or foreign. The mistake this guy made (besides not doing a few things to look younger*) is that he requested a woman around his own age.

* My suggestions for him: shave the entire head, grow a goatee, lose a few to get rid of the chubby cheeks. And if you don't look good in a goatee, get laser hair removal to lose the 5:00 shadow. It'll all be grey soon anyway. And finally, if you look dorky when you smile naturally (as me and this guy both do) practice in the mirror ways of looking good and learn to do that in public, like an actor.

What do older women think of a 40 year old guy that never ages like this?