The number for each year, Y, is the number of hits for a Google search of the form "Y is the new ___". If the year in the blank is less than Y -- say, "60 is the new 40" -- I counted it as deluded, including all years ending in 0, down to a minimum of 20. I counted it as cynical if the blank year was greater than Y, including all years ending in 0, up to a maximum of 90. For example, the deluded group for 50 is "50 is the new 40 / 30 / 20," while the cynical group is "50 is the new 60 / 70 / 80 / 90."
No matter what age they're talking about, people are always more deluded than cynical -- no surprise there. It's pretty bad as people approach 30, and gets steadily worse up to the peak at 50. After that, reality becomes undeniable, so awareness increases. Although with all these goddamned Baby Boomers around, the peak of delusion may simply track their mean age. (Too bad we don't have Google results from 20 years ago for comparison, although some other data source might.) At any rate, after a gloomy trend during the 60s and 70s, there is an uptick for the "80 is the new ___" group -- I suppose if I make it through my 70s alive, I'll be pretty optimistic too.
* If you don't believe me, look at this semi-NSFW photo (no full / partial nudity) that I found via a Google image search for "jailbait." The host site claims to lift them from other websites where teenagers upload pictures publicly (MySpace, Facebook, etc.). When was the last time you saw a female in her mid-20s or older who had skin that supple? And luminescent! -- the light bounces off her flesh as though reflecting off a ready-to-burst tomato. I'm sure the same is true for males, but fortunately our worth isn't affected by how taut our skin is (I avoid the sun just to be on the safe side, though).
Sex&TheCity, Cosmopolitian, Friends, Harper's Bazaar, NOW, USWeekly, EntertainmentTonight, Extra, PerezHilton, MTV, VH1, PlasticSurgery, OilofOlay, Dove, Clairol, EsteeLauder, Madonna, DrewBarrymore...........
ReplyDeleteI dont know where women get the idea they will be "young and hot" (and thus extremely fertile) at 38, do you?
Whats pathetic, and Agnostic I mean REALLY PATHETIC is that a woman who works through grad school, has several affairs, is a club girl for 5 years, and finally decides to settle down at 34 will find that the alpha male that she dreams of will get taken away by a 24 year old anyway.
Life ain't fair, and a womans "value" peaks <25. Babes are at their most intoxicatingly hot early on as your linked photograph so well demonstrates.
If you were a successuful late 30's executive with looks and game and you could have Law and Order's Jill Hennessy or whatever prosecuter-late-30's-babe they have this month or that fresh 22 year old ass, who would you take Agnsotic?
Me to bro, and it would take three men and a can opener to get my tongue out of her ass----if they had good leverage.
Good timing...I saw today that Esquire has named Halle Barry, aged 42, world's sexiest woman this month. And the band played on....
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