Society and Age-Extra Credit
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The photo that goes along with the tex is a white woman, no wrinkles, with a big grin on her face and finger on top lip. The woman is lieing in bed, facing you, and the photo is black and white.
It is obvious that it’s still considered a woman’s job to be beautiful. In addition to all the other things we are expected to do, we must strive for perfection. If we want to look like that model, we must buy the cream.
It’s so hard to believe that at 40, women are considered old, aged, and all those other nasty adjectives. Whereas men are still “in their prime�. If men aren’t married by 40, they still get called a bachelor. If women aren’t married by 40, well, they get looked at strange. I worked with a woman who was in her 50’s or 60’s and I remember her telling me she wasn’t married. I was shocked almost, but then after I had worked with her for sometime I realized you don’t need to be married to be happy. She was a wonderful woman who filled her time with other things like volunteering and doing good for the community. I used to be greatly influenced by society and the norms of it, but now I realize that at age 50,60,70, and up we’re older, but we’re not old, used up, etc. We may have wrinkles, we may have all the other things that come with old age. Society can call me an old hag if I’m not married. I’ll just reply ,“ Well, I’m happy this way, and that’s what counts.�