It's interesting to hear people say he or she is "out of my league".
I never let that enter my thinking, I know what you mean though and wonder if we don't adjust our taste to what subconsciously we "expect". The funny thing is how my taste has changed over the years, and I'm not talking about anything age related as I am not dead, I have eyes, and I can appreciate physical beauty in a male or female.
When I see a young man I always wonder if my daughter would think he was attractive because our tastes are very similar-with a few exceptions. Yet turn the clock back and chances are I NEVER would have found the same guy as attractive then as I do now. So is it a matter of repeated exposure to an overall image? If TV, movies, MTV bombards us with a "look", do we eventually buy into it?
When I watch VH1, I look at some of the entertainers that were considered "hot" yet I never saw the attraction. Now, I can look at them and say, "Boy, she was beautiful" or "Damn, he was cute!" Maybe being my "age" and looking at a man (my Hubby) HIS age for the past 30 years makes EVERYBODY attractive!
