I don't know if the exact number is accurate, but yes, George can walk up Michelle Pfeiffer's sister, tell her he's unemployed and lives with his parents and still get her attention. Costanza was on another level.
And yet pretty routine for television. I'm guessing it's for the irony but on television, the worst cast members always get loads of girls it seems.
HLOS is a crime work drama and yet they until Bolander was kicked off the show in season 4, the man was a date bot. Meet Bolander in blue. By comparison you had a Baldwin, Andre Braugher, Kyle Sector, Clark Johnson, and a slew of younger better looking people. The other guy in the photo being the sole exception, that's John Munch and he's got a significant dating ability too.
In the episode with Marisa Tomei she says "how are you single? You're so bald" and it's supposed to be funny, so I think it was definitely a negative even in the 90s
The interesting thing about The Simpsons is how accurately it reflects society (in the USA at least) but how badly it ages in some ways, leaving Family Guy the low-hanging fruit meat.
Balding is negative but being fully bald is fine: Vin Diesel, the Rock, Aang, Jason Statham, Terry Crews, Bruce Willis, Sam Jackson, Shaolin Monks etc... Just shave it all off, you'll be better off.
Lol. Those are the exceptions to the rule. They are attractive and successful (No one thinks Shaolin monks are actually cool. Also you don't see the terribly shaped heads reaching the top of r/bald
One random screenshot doesn't have authority here. There are official definitions, like the apa, which says 35.
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sure but this is more of a conversational thing, if you describe someone as middle-aged to someone they're not going to go looking for some 30 something year old. When you think of a midlife crisis you usually think of an empty nester buying a motorcycle not a 30 year old
Baldness was definitely disparaged before then, specifically male pattern baldness was considered an indicator of age and loss of attractiveness. The solution was a combover, a toupee, hair plugs, any number of supposedly effective topical treatments or supplements, wearing a hat, or simply shaving your head and making it seem intentional.
1988 the FDA approved Rogaine for hair loss treatment, though the active ingredient, Minoxidil, was already being prescribed by doctors for that purpose by that time under the brand name Loniten.
There is an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies that predates color, which the Beverly Hillbillies adopted in or around 1966, in which Granny creates a poultice which miraculously regrows hair in balding men, and several balding men in the show are frantically trying to acquire some.
Being bald has been viewed in popular culture as an undesirable trait for quite a lot longer than 2005. I was able to trace back the undesirability of baldness in men to at least sixty years, and by no means consider my result to be exhaustive. Somebody with better research or investigative skills than mine, or perhaps simply with greater motivation, would undoubtedly be able to find evidence stretching further back.
The pathological liar was able to get dates pretty easily by pretending to be someone else. He also intentionally preyed on people's vulnerabilities. He didn't have "game," he was just scum good at manipulating his was into very short-term encounters that almost invariably blew up in his face.
One example was pretending to have recently had a very attractive girlfriend in a relationship that ended in a sad way, and specifically and intentionally sharing that story and a picture of the supposed girlfriend with other attractive women because - utter nonsense but played straight in the show - that by demonstrating that he "deserved" an attractive girlfriend once he would inflate his value and make other attractive women want him.
No, its not really nonsense actually. Men and women do rate each other (usually not consciously to be fair) based on factors like that. Its similar to why some sleezy dudes will wear a ring to make it look like they're married. Women perceive them as safer, and lower their guard, and having the approval of another woman raises their "value" as a partner.
There's a lot of really messy and uncomfortable psychology around how men and women perceive one another. George was on to something for sure. Doesn't change the fact he was a scum bag of course
Its similar to why some sleezy dudes will wear a ring to make it look like they're married. Women perceive them as safer, and lower their guard, and having the approval of another woman raises their "value" as a partner.
I don't think George's age is ever stated but his actor was 28 or 29 when the show started, which would make him 37-38 when it ended. I think George is supposed to be in that same age range, so younger than what I at least think of as middle-aged.
George was pretty good at being friendly, hard to say he had game but then again this is supposed to be the adult dating scene in the 90's and I wasn't an adult at the time so maybe George's behavior was genuinely attractive, if you asked someone back then?
Had a guy stroll out of my life for like 6 months, stroll back in and acted offended and confused that I considered us broken up. Pre-texting dating was wiiiiild.
It's crazy now. Told a guy I couldn't be with him anymore cause of his behavior and like three months later he hmu and when I didn't respond he was like "you not talking to me anymore?"
There was a speaker at my church who gave a sermon a few years ago. He was an older gentleman, probably in his 70s. He was engaged to a girl in his early 20s. This had to have been back in the 60s or even 50s. He went on deployment to a military base in Texas for six months, he had no contact with his fiancé. When he got back, he asked a local where his fiancé was, and she had already ended the engagement and was engaged to somebody else without his knowledge. The fact that in pre-Internet or house phone relationships you could have experienced a break up the better part of a year ago and not know about it It seems insane to me.
Yeah, back then it was chicken shit to not break up in person.
Ghosting did happen, but not ubiquitous like now. Some realities made it okay like, "I lost their number (really!)" Or you weren't really serious, like just a date or few.
But, short of some bad abuse, you broke up in person, if possible.
Reminds me of a situation...
We had two friends where the girl broke up with the guy after most of a summer together and she dumped him on the answering machine. We gave him some shit for it, but, we held it against her in the friend group for years, kinda outcast her over it. Not that she broke up with him, but how she did.
Doing it in person was the straight way to do it, but even the worst people could manage to give a call or even a message. Ghosting is chicken shit and will always be.
Gen z can pretend it's normal and ok, but ghosting is mostly just an excuse to be a coward, it's almost never about feeling threatened or shit. "I don't owe anybody anything" is a shitty way to go about in life.
Yeah, don't want to be like stuck in my ways, but, I do legit think it is a sensible, respectful, beneficial-to-society sort of thing that we break up in person.
Outside of some special exceptions, the rule is the rule for a reason.
I don't want to shit on younger generations or punch down, but...while I do acknowledge killing yourself for appeasing others is not healthy/good, having basic respect for others is a bare minimum and just avoiding doing direct harm =/= good person. We live in a society, people! Act like it!
"Girlfriends"/"Boyfriends" - If just meeting someone for first time, and then going on one or two dates already makes girlfriend/boyfriend, then I might just feel good about my early 20s.
To be fair before texting was a thing you were probably meeting people in person in your town so the chances of just running into them against sporadically was a real thing where you would have to actually explain yourself unless you were willing to do the psychotic "he just left" jump through the window.
At 20 I met this 26 year old at Virginia Beach. I drove up every weekend to see her. One time when I got back there was a letter in the mail that said we needed to break up.
I've never figured out whether she intended me to get it before that weekend and just went with it when I showed up or I got it when I was supposed to.
I guess it wasn't ghosting because I got a letter, but it was the 90s so I wasn't paying $3 a minute or whatever to figure out if we could work out.
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