How old is too old?
The other day I was out lingerie shopping with one of my girlfriends when we saw this older woman (she was probably in her 60's) and she was looking at the same sexy lingerie that we were. It was weird; because you don't want to think about your grandma or even your mom wearing things like that and that woman was probably both to someone.
But then on the way home we were talking about it more. When we get that age does that mean we'll have to stop wearing sexy lingerie or cut our hair short (have you ever seen an older person with long hair)? It just seems so weird to me that one day we will be as old as the woman in that store and someone will probably be looking at us like that. We automatically think granny panties when we see the really big cotton underwear, but to be honest, one day we will be grannies (or at least granny age) and I don't think I would ever wear those.
What other things can't older women do though? It seems like when we see older ladies wearing more revealing clothes or even doing things that we do everyday like kickboxing class or something like that we kind of think to ourselves, “how old is that woman?” It just seems like as a society we put an age limit on things that we think are appropriate or not for women.
I do however think though that we have become much more lenient and I am very lucky to live in society today rather than even just 30 years ago. Women can do things now in general that they couldn't before like be teachers and even vote. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to not be able to vote but my brother could. That idea doesn't even seem serious to a lot of us now even though we know that it once was true.
So I guess we shouldn't tell anyone that they aren't young enough (or the right gender) or put limitations on anyone in anyway because we might be in their shoes someday (like the woman in the lingerie shop) and we definitely wouldn't want someone younger than us pointing that out to us. Age is just a number, it really shouldn't matter.
Posted on Sunday, January 18, 2009 @ 3:49 PM by Brian