Comments on: Redefining hot http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/08/redefining-hot/ The tween site for adults Tue, 22 May 2012 14:07:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: AmyK http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/08/redefining-hot/comment-page-1/#comment-1329 AmyK Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:28:50 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=749#comment-1329 I fully understand where you are coming from. I, too, have seen the comments and I fully understand that Sophia Loren, Joan Collins and Cher are till hot. Damn right they are! But their boobs are not 50 or 60 years old. Those boobs are 2 or 3 or 5 years old. Same goes for those faces. In looking back at my old photos, I would have been kinder to that woman. She had it going on and never knew. It is what it is... I can tell you though,on the cruises I have been on, I have seen the older skinny ladies in their bikinis and just because you think you're still hot, don't get within 50 feet of a 20 year old on her worse day. It shows. We get it. I fully understand where you are coming from. I, too, have seen the comments and I fully understand that Sophia Loren, Joan Collins and Cher are till hot. Damn right they are! But their boobs are not 50 or 60 years old. Those boobs are 2 or 3 or 5 years old. Same goes for those faces. In looking back at my old photos, I would have been kinder to that woman. She had it going on and never knew. It is what it is… I can tell you though,on the cruises I have been on, I have seen the older skinny ladies in their bikinis and just because you think you’re still hot, don’t get within 50 feet of a 20 year old on her worse day. It shows.

We get it.

]]> By: Lisa Lucke http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/08/redefining-hot/comment-page-1/#comment-1326 Lisa Lucke Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:28:10 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=749#comment-1326 I never took your "formerly hot" phrase to mean that 40-ish women can't be hot. I like what I see when I get dressed, put myself together, and even believe my husband when he says I'm "hot." However, I am not the "hot" I was in my 20's and now I think it's funny. Even funnier because I've found your blog. It's just a different kind of hot. Keep up the good work ladies! Lisa I never took your “formerly hot” phrase to mean that 40-ish women can’t be hot. I like what I see when I get dressed, put myself together, and even believe my husband when he says I’m “hot.” However, I am not the “hot” I was in my 20’s and now I think it’s funny. Even funnier because I’ve found your blog.

It’s just a different kind of hot.

Keep up the good work ladies!

Lisa

]]> By: Jane Gassner http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/08/redefining-hot/comment-page-1/#comment-1325 Jane Gassner Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:36:10 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=749#comment-1325 I love this post and I'd love to put it on MidLifeBloggers. It's such a hot (and I do mean hot) topic for all of us, and you get the various bits and pieces of the issue down in a very short space. Jane I love this post and I’d love to put it on MidLifeBloggers. It’s such a hot (and I do mean hot) topic for all of us, and you get the various bits and pieces of the issue down in a very short space.

Jane

]]> By: jen http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/08/redefining-hot/comment-page-1/#comment-1324 jen Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:33:11 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=749#comment-1324 Your just saying what we are all thinking, in a humorous, Erma Bombeck kinda way. Keep up the great blog. We can all use the laughs!! Your just saying what we are all thinking, in a humorous, Erma Bombeck kinda way. Keep up the great blog. We can all use the laughs!!

]]> By: Sue http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/08/redefining-hot/comment-page-1/#comment-1322 Sue Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:12:06 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=749#comment-1322 I am also 42 and struggling with suddenly being 'invisible'. We may not like it, but it is true. The only way to survive it is with humor...and fantastic clothes 20 year olds can't afford! I am also 42 and struggling with suddenly being ‘invisible’. We may not like it, but it is true. The only way to survive it is with humor…and fantastic clothes 20 year olds can’t afford!

]]> By: Julie http://www.formerlyhot.com/2009/08/redefining-hot/comment-page-1/#comment-1317 Julie Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:41:24 +0000 http://www.formerlyhot.com/?p=749#comment-1317 I've always felt you were writing about culture-- and ways we and people around us respond to cultural constructs of age, beauty, psychological/physical change. By having us look at cultural ideas about age and gender ironically, with humor and humanity, you are doing us all a great service! You are very generous in honestly sharing your own experiences. In doing so, I think you are helping us love being women throughout the journey. So, in this regard, you are currently my very hot hero! Hopefully, with work like yours, and challenging our own attitudes, we will come to live in a "formerly ageist" and more accepting and self-loving society. I’ve always felt you were writing about culture– and ways we and people around us respond to cultural constructs of age, beauty, psychological/physical change.

By having us look at cultural ideas about age and gender ironically, with humor and humanity, you are doing us all a great service! You are very generous in honestly sharing your own experiences. In doing so, I think you are helping us love being women throughout the journey. So, in this regard, you are currently my very hot hero!

Hopefully, with work like yours, and challenging our own attitudes, we will come to live in a “formerly ageist” and more accepting and self-loving society.

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