
07-31-2010, 12:14 AM
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What all men need to get straight is that, there are women-years, and there are men-years. Women live longer than men, therefore (to use an arbitrary number) a man at 30 years of age is biologically older than a woman at thirty years of age. Then, let's factor in that in current modern society, there is a definite trend for women to take far better care of their health and fitness as they age, then men of the same age do. We will probably start seeing the statistical effects of this in the next couple of decades, and it will undoubtedly increase the current difference between men and women years (don't ask me to do the math - too early in the morning).
Therefore, young men, while the chronological difference in age between you and an older woman may be, say 20-25 years, biologically, it is much less, just across the population, and depending on individual living and wellness habits, and environmental factors, the difference may be a lot less than that. So...beware of who you are calling "old".
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