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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I used to lie about my age on here, take off ten years as I'm in good shape and relatively unravaged by the buffeting and bruising of times relentless march. It didn't work but it kept me within the majority of limits chosen by the majority of fabbers.
Of course I'm guilty of some ageism and set my upper limit as 65, sometimes more. It used to be 50, which is less than my real age, but I went to a social in Hull and was ridiculed, rightly, by a couple of women who said "Well that rules us out!". I changed my limits and strive to be less ageist. Some young people are a pain in the arse though! Youth ageism, an youth has wonderful vitality and un-jaded eyes.
It's claimed men get better looking with age and women strive to look younger as they age, because, I think, society dictates through the media that the ideal woman is lithe, flawless and less than thirty. I believe this is hideous non-sense and that growing old is a great thing in both sexes. As we protect our skin from the sun by wearing clothes our faces age quicker than our bodies and there are women well into their sixties with beautiful, soft skin and lithe, young bodies. Of course body shape is another thorny issue, but one prejudice at a time.
I saw a post from a 26 year old TV who set her range between 20 and 40, and I thought, she's missing out on so much!
Then the cougars set their limits on age the same, and often less, no doubt with great success. I think it's a positive reversal of a male imposed convention, women taking power into their own hands. I find time and again that this site gives women control, going back to a pre- christian/ religious time when women were the bringers of life and men, merely the sower of seeds, were revered and worshipped, and we weren't dragged down by the yoke of monogamy, but I digress.
Anyway, here are my Sunday morning muses for this week!
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you're very kind.
