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History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: My "Naked" Truth [View all]theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)20. Don't know if anyone had seen this article
If this doesn't raise your blood pressure, nothing will.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-28272373
11 July 2014
Esquire: 42-year-old women are still sexy
BBC News
Attention all "women of a certain age" - Esquire magazine has decided that you're still sexy, as long as that "certain age" falls below 42.
In an illuminating article, Esquire writer Tom Junod pronounces 42 as the most alluring age of 2014.
In the past when women left their 30s, Junod says, they could break out the funeral pyre for both their looks and their entire sense of womanhood.
"Let's face it: There used to be something tragic about even the most beautiful 42-year-old woman," Junod writes....
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i use to say our body was just the metal to protect our inside, as we traveled in life, like a car.
seabeyond
Jul 2014
#1
You give the male species more credit than do I. Been on a dating site lately?
Tuesday Afternoon
Jul 2014
#3
exactly. especially the last decade of inundation of this garbage in every area of life, 24/7
seabeyond
Jul 2014
#7
I think that's must be especially true for women who find themselves unattached...
theHandpuppet
Jul 2014
#25
Yeah, of course it does. Cause men are sexually objectified just as much, right?
redqueen
Jul 2014
#29