Old Talk is the New Fat Talk
“Yesterday I got so old, it made me want to cry.”
I once wrote an article about how women who bemoan their bodies ("I'm so fat") had started to talk smack about their age, as in "Ugh. I look so old." Here's how psychology professor Carolyn Black Becker at Trinity University explained why women engage in "old talk": "In generations past, you were supposed to look different at age 50 than at 25. Now women are viewed as sex objects for a much greater portion of their life span and there is an ongoing pressure to be hot."
In essence, that means we self-criticize every sign of aging because we compare ourselves to women decades younger. Hey, we earned our laugh lines by cracking up with our friends. Those freckles are a reminder of a magical summer. Let's all look in the mirror and beam at the beauties we have become.