Women Over 50: Why They Are Powerful And How To Use That Power

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 of age. unless they appear to be half or their role is purely residual and stereotyped.

The heterosexual partners complain that from that age they become invisible. Invisible to the eyes of men, I would also add. But also in 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 important 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 about women after an age, and what age is that?

It’s pretty sad. As much as things have changed, as much as that is no longer in style, as much as feminism now I don’t know what or how many. That women are no longer reduced solely to our reproductive function is relatively true, yes. But it is as if we have broken 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 is still 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 laboral world the question is also scandalous: there are environments where physical appearance has as much weight as the quality of workand others where they try to flee from these dynamics but confuse the young body with innovative ideas and end up –without even realizing it– building environments only for young women.

As we get older we are better able to understand 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 better choose our battles, 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 do not stop sending us messages so that we hate our age, our experience, our journey. That’s why they separate us into closed age categories from the moment we are born. Each with their age. And, unfortunately, that motorcycle has been sold to us.

The world has taught us to confront ourselves and we have to go through a deconstruction process to realize it.

the way that we impose age standards 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 poor of the one who wants to get out of the norm.

At the same time, those who try to strictly follow the norm and, for example, undergo cosmetic surgery, are also fired for having “spoiled” their faces. That’s another one of the great bikes we’ve bought. But the process is reversible from today. Shall we get to it?

It seems like a dead end, but it is not. The mature ones 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 the infertile age, we are taught in self-hatred. And that’s why we ourselves ended up boycotting ourselves. Mature women know “what the movie is about” and that gives us an advantage. That’s why they put us in constant obstacles.

the advantages of being over 50

We are in the age of listura

The listura is not intelligence, it is something else. When we are young we have little experience and the goddesses give us the tool of fury for protection. But when the fury (not the rage) calms downbecause you cannot survive forever in a state of rage, the other arrives: the foxery.

We are dangerous to the system

The system itself says so. As? Putting us constant obstacles for 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 constantly deprived because they know that we are not going to buy the same motorcycle Over and over again.

We transmit knowledge

In worlds where the old women still have their social space, there is the possibility of transmitting knowledge between them. A knowledge that goes in all directions: the listura of the many years and the fury of the few. If we work together, we are unstoppable.

let’s fight the filter of age

In our dating applications there is a very interesting thing (many, in fact) that is the age filter. And yes, if you troll a little you realize that with more than 40 years you are blocked everywhere already of series, of input.

Your profile is not even seen anymore because you are discarded due to age

Despite the fact that we are very modern and that reproductive age thing does not affect us at all. But there are the filters. And that, let’s see, there is no filter on sexual practices in our applications. Nor is there a filter for liars, or for treacherous, or for dodgy, or for violent. No. There is an old filter. The fact is that bad if you have the rule, bad if you no longer

The fact is that you are never worth at all. And that is if you are a woman with a vulva and vagina, a registered trademark woman. Because if everything, everything revolves around menstruation and reproduction, well, there we have the mess set up with trans women and all the contempt and violence they receive/receive right and left.

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 these things, dear Minds, we must change the daily practices.