Author of article:
- “I feel invisible now,” a friend recently said. She will be 30 in a month.
- talk to the average woman and the Moment feels more like tokenism; for many, a growing sense of invisibility, of gradual erasure, starts in their 30s.
- in China, age 27 is when unmarried women officially become “leftover pearls”
- the root of women’s so-called jadedness as they age: that to capitalize on the experience and confidence they’ve accrued, they must give the illusion of (relative) youth.
Thoughts?
- “I feel invisible now,” a friend recently said. She will be 30 in a month.
- talk to the average woman and the Moment feels more like tokenism; for many, a growing sense of invisibility, of gradual erasure, starts in their 30s.
- in China, age 27 is when unmarried women officially become “leftover pearls”
- the root of women’s so-called jadedness as they age: that to capitalize on the experience and confidence they’ve accrued, they must give the illusion of (relative) youth.
Feeling Invisible After 35
Much has been written on the invisibility of women in their 50s, but for many, the slow creep of feeling invisible to men, to society starts years earlier.
theswaddle.com
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