Is it a level playing field in terms male/female dynamic for women past forty-five?
Not the way I see it. Just look at the numbers. Men die younger. Past fifty there are scads more women than men in the dating pool. Then men have the option of dating women their own age, or older women, or younger women, even much younger. Yes, Demi Moore and Mary Tyler Moore married men much their junior, but for those of us common folk not named Moore, the likelihood of such a match is small. We tend to be left with men who are older, in many cases Medicare-older. I know some fifty year old women dating seventy year old guys. (Not that there’s anything wrong with it.) In this culture, men are generally valued for power and money which increase with age. Women are prized for youth and a dewy beauty, which by definition vanish or decrease with age. Not fair. Romantically, sexually, women past, say, fifty become almost invisible to men the same age. Go on line and see who fifty or even sixty year old men are looking to date. Catherine Zeta-Jones. Every sixty year old man sees himself a
