Some weeks ago, I visited a masseuse, one known to this board. Days later, I wrote a review of the time I spent with her.
In that review, I wrote something to the effect that she was fine looking -- for an older woman. That's an oversimplification of it but...
What makes me think about this in a weird way is that based upon one of her postings, she's actually four years younger than me. This of course makes little sense.
How can someone younger than me be an older woman?
It makes little sense.
As I write this, I'm watching a movie called, "The American President." It stars Michael Douglas and Annette Bening.
I'm about an hour into the movie (including commercials). Some time ago, I thought to myself, that Ms. Bening is one heck of a good looking woman. I remember her from American Beauty and I don't recall being too impressed with her. I have a feeling that it was the intention of the moviemakers in that movie that she be portrayed an unattractive person.
I remember Bening from The Grifters. I thought she was scorching hot in a different way. She dropped the ball only because she wouldn't do naked. The women in Hollywood who interest me or perhaps fascinate me the most are: Halle Berry, Lexa Doig, Jessica Alba -- at least, off the top of my mind. Bening isn't really like any of those women. Forgetting appearances, she doesn't carry herself like any of those women. If it means anything, I think she's a better actress than any of those women.
Anyways, while watching the movie, I had a thought.
What makes for an older woman?
When this movie was released, Bening was something like 37 years old. She had done only one TV show prior to age 30. Good or bad, she wasn't your typical cupcake.
This is what I thought of. Even though I'm older now than she was when she acted in this movie, I still think of her as being an older woman.
It isn't older in the sense of being older than I am.
So what is it about?
My own vague, unfocused perspective is that women have about four stages in life. In this I generalize greatly. I haven't a clue about the stages of a man's life.
1. Teenager, or first blush
2. Young woman
3. Older woman
4. Too old woman
Note that actual years don't matter directly. I just looked it up, and evidently, according to imdb, Halle Berry is 39. She is an exquisite beauty. I am unable to think of her as an older woman. Jessica Alba is very much a young woman. There was a moment in Sin City, towards the end when she throws herself into the arms of Bruce Willis' character, that she overwhelmed me. I've been infatuated with her for as long as I can remember.
Annette Bening is in the 'older woman' category. Her physical charms are not that of Jessica or Lexa Doig but she is clearly a beautiful woman -- clearly to me.
I write this because this is the first time I have thought of women from this perspective. Perhaps because I just had a birthday, perhaps because I am aging. I do not know.
Just some rambling after seeing Ms. Bening looking good. Hot... maybe not. Interesting, attractive and very sexy? ... very much so.
In that review, I wrote something to the effect that she was fine looking -- for an older woman. That's an oversimplification of it but...
What makes me think about this in a weird way is that based upon one of her postings, she's actually four years younger than me. This of course makes little sense.
How can someone younger than me be an older woman?
It makes little sense.
As I write this, I'm watching a movie called, "The American President." It stars Michael Douglas and Annette Bening.
I'm about an hour into the movie (including commercials). Some time ago, I thought to myself, that Ms. Bening is one heck of a good looking woman. I remember her from American Beauty and I don't recall being too impressed with her. I have a feeling that it was the intention of the moviemakers in that movie that she be portrayed an unattractive person.
I remember Bening from The Grifters. I thought she was scorching hot in a different way. She dropped the ball only because she wouldn't do naked. The women in Hollywood who interest me or perhaps fascinate me the most are: Halle Berry, Lexa Doig, Jessica Alba -- at least, off the top of my mind. Bening isn't really like any of those women. Forgetting appearances, she doesn't carry herself like any of those women. If it means anything, I think she's a better actress than any of those women.
Anyways, while watching the movie, I had a thought.
What makes for an older woman?
When this movie was released, Bening was something like 37 years old. She had done only one TV show prior to age 30. Good or bad, she wasn't your typical cupcake.
This is what I thought of. Even though I'm older now than she was when she acted in this movie, I still think of her as being an older woman.
It isn't older in the sense of being older than I am.
So what is it about?
My own vague, unfocused perspective is that women have about four stages in life. In this I generalize greatly. I haven't a clue about the stages of a man's life.
1. Teenager, or first blush
2. Young woman
3. Older woman
4. Too old woman
Note that actual years don't matter directly. I just looked it up, and evidently, according to imdb, Halle Berry is 39. She is an exquisite beauty. I am unable to think of her as an older woman. Jessica Alba is very much a young woman. There was a moment in Sin City, towards the end when she throws herself into the arms of Bruce Willis' character, that she overwhelmed me. I've been infatuated with her for as long as I can remember.
Annette Bening is in the 'older woman' category. Her physical charms are not that of Jessica or Lexa Doig but she is clearly a beautiful woman -- clearly to me.
I write this because this is the first time I have thought of women from this perspective. Perhaps because I just had a birthday, perhaps because I am aging. I do not know.
Just some rambling after seeing Ms. Bening looking good. Hot... maybe not. Interesting, attractive and very sexy? ... very much so.
