Post: #1

https://vid.me/vOmS
(scene lasts less than two minutes)

This is a scene from the movie The Upside of Anger (2005). I saw that clip in some response here in forum but I couldn't find more information about it. The actor (he is the director of the movie too) gives a philosophical answer as to why he goes out with young girls.

Wish I could embed the video.

Post: #2

It's a good scene, and it's great that this is in a Hollywood movie, but I would not call his answer a philosophical one.

Younger women being nicer than older women is just one reason out of many, and it's a lower-ranking one compared to biological impulses. I also think he's not giving her a straight answer, but a white lie - or do you think that if the older woman would be just as agreeable as her daughter, that if he has a chance of being with the daughter, he would choose the mother over the daughter?

Post: #3

I got so excited... end up exaggerating about being philosophical. Of course the daughter would be the better choice. Everything being equal, the younger is always better

Post: #4

I posit that it's the following:

Younger women are pre-wall.. hence they are not bitter.. instead they are quite sweet.

Old hag's are post-wall.. hence they are extremely bitter

Which would any sane man choose?

Obviously young and sweet.

Post: #5

Just had a date with an 18yo

Went for some drinks at this Japanese restaurant and we split a little order of sake that I paid for. She was so sweet about it, thanked me like 7 times for it including after the bang when she left.

Younger girls just make me feel more alive

Post: #6

(09-10-2015 06:22 PM)Sgt Wrote:  It's a good scene, and it's great that this is in a Hollywood movie, but I would not call his answer a philosophical one.

Younger women being nicer than older women is just one reason out of many, and it's a lower-ranking one compared to biological impulses. I also think he's not giving her a straight answer, but a white lie - or do you think that if the older woman would be just as agreeable as her daughter, that if he has a chance of being with the daughter, he would choose the mother over the daughter?

Yes, from an objective point-of-view, "niceness" seems like reason #32 on the checklist of why younger women are preferable.

But when you're older (ahem) and have to put up with the smug, arrogant, know-it-all "I want to talk to the manager" bullshit from the fortysomething set, niceness becomes reason #1, because you're coming from an emotional standpoint.

I had a friend in college who used to say he didn't value niceness because "anyone can be nice." But I've found that's not really true. Ego, competitiveness, ambition, and a bunch of other things make it difficult for a lot of people to be nice. They need to put you in your place and show you just who they are. Hmph!

This seems to especially be true of the menopausal set who seem more into "battling" people and "matching wits" with men than harmonizing with them. We all knew these women in high school. They were the teachers and administrators (or girlfriend's mothers) who would go out of their way to humiliate or belittle you. The good part was we weren't stuck dating them.

Until we found ourselves single at age 44 and realized we were, in fact, dating them. Oh sh*t! How did this happen?!

Suddenly, it hits you: How is it I'm buying dinner for an old bat who is completely rude and argumentative, but two decades ago when I did this with totally hot 18-year-old interns from my old job they were super nice? You'd think it would be the other way around.

Also: How is it that when I was a poverty-stricken 25-year-old who accomplished nada, women were nice, but I'm now a man who has accomplished a whole lot, and they're behaving towards me like I'm a total loser?

So I get why the guy in the clip says what he does to the haggard old Anne Archer character. I've thought it too. It's one reason I avoid shopping at the Yuppie place nearby and go to the trashy Food Lion near the trailer park. It's staffed with 18-year-olds who might not be too bright, but they sure are nice. That matters. Now if I could only pull off looking more like I did at 25, I'd be set...

Post: #7

Women post-wall are bitter because they know men (men rule the world) gives attention to girls (pre-wall). They see and sense all the attention and how young girls receive the red-carpet treatment. For them, it's just something from the past and they regret not using that "power" properly when they were young and see all that attention fading.
They dream about having the brain of post-wall with the body of pre-wall. Unfortunately for them, it's just a dream. They even try passing that "knowledge" to their daughters but the cycle continues.


Women: When they realize how the game works, it's too late.
Men: They get fucked in the beginning but with experience, they can achieve everything.

Post: #8

I don't know. I meet a lot of cunty young girls as well as cunty older women. Then again, I'm in the US and it seems that here bitterness is spread evenly among all the age groups.

Post: #9

(09-10-2015 11:57 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  Yes, from an objective point-of-view, "niceness" seems like reason #32 on the checklist of why younger women are preferable.

But when you're older (ahem) and have to put up with the smug, arrogant, know-it-all "I want to talk to the manager" bullshit from the fortysomething set, niceness becomes reason #1, because you're coming from an emotional standpoint.

I had a friend in college who used to say he didn't value niceness because "anyone can be nice." But I've found that's not really true. Ego, competitiveness, ambition, and a bunch of other things make it difficult for a lot of people to be nice. They need to put you in your place and show you just who they are. Hmph!

As a 39 year old man, I agree with you 100%. I will also add that niceness and beauty are the two forms of egalitarianism that everyone can truly achieve.

Not everyone can be wealthy. Not everyone can be intelligent. Not everyone can be educated. Not everyone can live in the top 10% of homes.

But everyone can be beautiful - (meaning, everyone has the choice and capacity to avoid self-uglification). And everyone can be nice.

I've been flirting with a 20 year old banker chick, who thinks I'm 26, based on the way she greeted me when I walked in. The first thing I said to her was, "That was an excellent greeting. Do they train you to speak like that, or is it something you're personally adding to the job?"