I don’t think women lose power as they age. I have met and seen so many POWERFUL glorious successful and deeply beautiful women in their 30s and 40s+. From sexy to motherly to both. I think it’s really time to flip the cultural narrative because it’s just simply not true. I mean the amount of men that have mommy fantasies and we still are out here touting young helpless maidens (of which I’m one of lol) to be the epitome of sexual power. I mean a lot of us don’t even know what we want! We haven’t had the experience to. Women in their 30s+ is where it’s attttt
i 100% agree that basically every woman i meet is powerful and glorious in their own right, no matter their age.
i just don't know that the whole world is onboard with this currently and in a world that subconciously (and consciously) still hinges a lot of women's 'power' or worth on their beauty we still have a long way to go.
Why not embrace the idea that growing older is mandatory, but growing up is not? Men have managed to do this because women have accepted - unthinkingly or by coercion - the responsibilities men didn't want.
I'm not happy thinking of myself as a girl, because I spent so much of my young womanhood (in the 70s and 80s) working to get people to stop calling me that, along with "dear", "sweetie" and all the other diminishing terms women put up with. I call myself an elder, a crone or a grandmother, all terms that come from my faith (I'm a witch) and are used to refer to women who are in the wisewoman phase of their lives.
Nonetheless, I definitely have a girl's capacity for fun. Shoulda seen me in the museum gift shop buying dinosaur models for myself!
I don’t think women lose power as they age. I have met and seen so many POWERFUL glorious successful and deeply beautiful women in their 30s and 40s+. From sexy to motherly to both. I think it’s really time to flip the cultural narrative because it’s just simply not true. I mean the amount of men that have mommy fantasies and we still are out here touting young helpless maidens (of which I’m one of lol) to be the epitome of sexual power. I mean a lot of us don’t even know what we want! We haven’t had the experience to. Women in their 30s+ is where it’s attttt
i 100% agree that basically every woman i meet is powerful and glorious in their own right, no matter their age.
i just don't know that the whole world is onboard with this currently and in a world that subconciously (and consciously) still hinges a lot of women's 'power' or worth on their beauty we still have a long way to go.
Why not embrace the idea that growing older is mandatory, but growing up is not? Men have managed to do this because women have accepted - unthinkingly or by coercion - the responsibilities men didn't want.
I'm not happy thinking of myself as a girl, because I spent so much of my young womanhood (in the 70s and 80s) working to get people to stop calling me that, along with "dear", "sweetie" and all the other diminishing terms women put up with. I call myself an elder, a crone or a grandmother, all terms that come from my faith (I'm a witch) and are used to refer to women who are in the wisewoman phase of their lives.
Nonetheless, I definitely have a girl's capacity for fun. Shoulda seen me in the museum gift shop buying dinosaur models for myself!
I LOVE this "Why not embrace the idea that growing older is mandatory, but growing up is not?" - that's exactly how I view it also.
Thank you for sharing!