Actresses complain that there are no roles for people over forty and therefore, I add, We do not have audiovisual representations of women over forty years old unless they appear to have half or their role is purely residual and stereotyped.
Straight colleagues complain that From that age they become invisible. Invisible to the eyes of men, I would also add. But also in the dating networks lesbian and bisexual there is an age filter that performs, in practice, the same function. Curiously There are no filters for things as transcendent as political ideology, but there is one for ageso that the profiles of women who do not fall into the chosen range are not even seen.
What happens to women from a certain age, and what age is that?
It’s quite sad. No matter how much things have changedno matter how much that is no longer in style, no matter how much feminism now I don’t know what or I don’t know how many. That women are no longer reduced solely to our reproductive function is relatively true, yes. But it’s as if we had torn down a wall and forgotten to remove the rubble.
When we stop being fertile, when we are no longer possible reproducers, we no longer have assigned social space.
So, in reality, the space is still occupied by the ruined wall, which is still there after all. The ruins of That idea that women are mothers, only, is what marks our expiration date. This expiration continues to be valid in a thousand details: from the classic “you don’t look your age” as a compliment – even if it is an infantilizing insult –, to the grandparenting of older womenwho are named as grandmothers whether or not they have offspring.
In the world of work The question is also scandalous: There are environments where physical appearance has as much weight as the quality of work.and others where they try to escape from those dynamics but confuse a young body with novel ideas and end up – without even realizing it – building environments only for young women.
As we get older we are more capable of understanding life, it becomes more intelligible. For that reason Women who reach the age of maturity have more tools to relativize the relativizable and give space to things that are transcendent. Because we understand its significance. And that teaches us to choose our battles better, to know which troubles to get into and which ones to let go.
Women over 50: why are they powerful?
To the women of the global north, The system makes it very difficult for us to take advantage of the experience: They don’t stop sending us messages to make us hate our age, our experience, our journey. That’s why We are separated into closed age categories from the moment we are born.. Each one with his age. And, unfortunately, that motorcycle has been sold to us.
The world has taught us to confront ourselves and we have to do a deconstruction process to realize this.
The way in which we impose age norms on other women It is very significant. It seems unanimous that we have to dress and behave according to a stereotype that includes our age. And woe betide anyone who wants to break away from the norm.
At the same time, those who try to strictly follow the norm and, for example, undergo cosmetic surgery, are also defenestrated for having “spoiled” their face. That’s another one of the great bikes we’ve bought. But the process is reversible starting today. Shall we get to it?
It seems like a dead end, but it is not. We mature women are just one of the many groups of women who escape the system, voluntarily or imposed. We have a lot of alliances to make and a lot of things to learn from each other. From infertile age onwards, we are taught self-hatred. And that’s why we end up boycotting ourselves. We mature women know “what the movie is about” and that gives us an advantage. That’s why they put constant obstacles on us.
the advantages of being over 50 years old
We are in the age of cleverness
Smartness is not intelligence, it is something else. When we are young we have little experience and the goddesses give us the tool of fury as protection. But when the fury (not rage) calms downbecause you cannot survive forever in a state of fury, The other thing comes: the slut.
We are dangerous to the system
The system itself says it. As? Putting constant obstacles for ourselves in old age. He wants us to continue acting as if we were young but without the anger, which also penalizes us infinitely. They want us to be in constant confusion because they know that we are not going to buy the same motorcycle. over and over and over again.
We transmit knowledge
In worlds where old women still retain their social space, there is the possibility of transmitting knowledge between one another. A knowledge that goes in all directions: the cleverness of the many years and the fury of the few. If we work together, we are unstoppable.
let’s fight against the filter of age
In our dating applications there is a very interesting thing (many, in fact) which is the age filter. And yes, if you troll a little You realize that at over 40 years old you are blocked everywhere already standard, from the outset.
Your profile is no longer visible because you are discarded due to age
Even though we are very modern and the reproductive age thing doesn’t affect us at all. But there are the filters. And, let’s see, there is no filter on sexual practices in our applications. Nor is there a filter for liars, or for traitors, or for dodgy, or for violent. No. There is an age filter. The fact is that bad if you have your period, bad if you don’t anymore.
The fact is that you are never completely worth it. And that’s if you’re a woman with a vulva and vagina, a trademark woman. Because if everything revolves around periods and reproduction, then there we have the mess with trans women and all the contempt and violence they receive/receive left and right.
But what happens to us? If we are saying that we are not vessels, if we want to get rid of the reproductive role as an essentializing role, if we want all those things, Dear Minds, we must change daily practices.