Good thinking and good writing, daylia. I agree.

One of the film stars I saw in People that day looked like a concentration camp victim. Knees like huge knobs projecting from legs like sticks. She looked like she needed an IV (water, sugar, a little salt) quick. The others were merely skinny.

alanabit, I get more attention and have more loot now than I ever did when I was young and pretty. I'm sure that is true for most of us.

I would not wish to be young and female in today's world. So much has been taken away from young women. Pretty clothes, hope for rewarding careers, a belief in lasting marriage. The feeling that one is treasured, is worth something.

If you don't believe me pick up a newspaper. How much do you find in it about younger women? Virtually nothing, unless they are newsworthy murder victims.

Or, to get back to this thread, unless they are glamorous sex objects with lots of capital & PR behind them.