What the hell is up with the contortions about what age is what?<\/p>\n
I got it first almost ten years ago from an OBGYN who was fitting me with an IUD and scolding me about my weight, saying that biologically I was more like my grandparents in their late teens, so I should be careful.\u00a0 I never quite understood that.\u00a0 Three generations isn’t enough to promote a change in aging that dramatic.\u00a0 I do appear younger than my grandparents did at my age, but that’s because I am more careful about sun and don’t smoke. That’s about it.\u00a0 I don’t look younger than my non-smoking mother did at my age — and that’s a time period about which I have quite clear memories, as I was already an adult.<\/p>\n
It hit me again recently when I was looking up long hair care techniques.\u00a0 I’m a swimmer, I wear my hair about waist length, and I dye my hair.\u00a0 Since it’s quite chemically-abused, I was checking some stuff out.<\/p>\n
There was the usual advice that when a woman hits forty she should cut her hair (anyone really wanna bet that in six months I’ll be sporting a short hairstyle?\u00a0 REALLY???? Sort of impending chemo-therapy, and using my hair to make a wig, we’re talking SERIOUS improbability)<\/p>\n
Then I ran across this article that explained that it’s okay<\/em> for a woman past forty to wear her hair long “because forty is the new thirty.”<\/p>\n No, forty is still forty.\u00a0 And it’s okay to wear long hair under one condition: That you want<\/em> to.<\/p>\n I always liked Gloria Steinem’s retort to the reporter who told her she didn’t look like she was forty.<\/p>\n “This is what forty looks like!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What the hell is up with the contortions about what age is what? I got it first almost ten years ago from an OBGYN who was fitting me with an IUD and scolding me about my weight, saying that biologically I was more like my grandparents in their late teens, so I should be careful.\u00a0 … <\/p>\n