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List: Signs That You Are a Gen-Xer Going Through Menopause
List: Signs That You Are a Gen-Xer Going Through Menopause
Still menstruating, guys, but this hurts.
Also, I can say “guys” because I’m Gen X and am insensitive.
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Don’t Age!
I’m not that comfortable with aging. I always thought that, not being such an obvious beauty, that it would be easy for me to age. You know, when you don’t have your looks that disappear. But I had something else. I realized that I had youth, for a long, long time. And now it’s gone. You don’t want to be reminded that you’re not 30 anymore. I don’t enjoy it.
I appreciate Charlotte Gainsbourg’s honest response to a question regarding something she said about possibly giving up acting. Maybe that’s her reality at 46. Yet somehow I was bothered more by the super-French response to how she “stays so beautiful and glamorous and skinny.”
[Laughs.]
Well, skinny is easy. Don’t eat!
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The New Midlife Crisis
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Surviving as an Old in the Tech World | Backchannel
Surviving as an Old in the Tech World | Backchannel
I’m not in tech, but yes to this.
Almost everyone I know over 40 tends to omit their graduation year from their résumés and eliminate or streamline their past experiences.
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Goodwill is ‘overrun’ with stuff millennials and Gen Xers refuse to take from their parents, who pay up to $5,000 to get rid of it
This might be a record, seeing Gen X mentioned in two headlines in one week.
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I’m shook.
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Now I’m in my 50s, young men want to date me: Welcome to the world of WHIPS
Now I’m in my 50s, young men want to date me: Welcome to the world of WHIPS
“I know what you want to know. But I can’t tell you, because I haven’t known these young men – yet. I’ve yet to find the emotional strength to reveal the bingo wings and my thighs.”
I don’t completely disagree that there is a disconnect between middle-aged men and women. Younger men can be less rigid (and in my experience weren’t thinking about kids so we had that in common). And older men are often delusional and think they deserve younger women.
But the above quote isn’t exactly making the author’s case. Oh, and WHIPS stands for Women who are Hot, Intelligent and in their Prime…
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Stop Treating 70- and 90-Year-Olds the Same
Clearly, I am not 70 yet but this headline caught my attention since I know if I make it to that age I’m going to be annoyed about lumping everyone in the same old age group.
I certainly found it ageist that Tinder did not allow searching nuances after 47. You could specify a 41-44 segment, for instance, but then you would have to take all 47+ men as if looking to date a 48-year-old man is the same as 65 or 80.
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Do Orcas Have Hot Flashes?
Defined broadly, menopause is the programmed end of fertility in a female animal. Human women, of course, are well aware that their fertility will decline with age and cease after a certain point, typically around age 50. In the animal kingdom at large, however, menopause is an oddity — and a long-standing evolutionary mystery. An organism’s ultimate goal is reproduction. Why sacrifice that consummate purpose? Even more puzzling, why would an animal naturally become infertile and then go on living for years? Throughout history, scientists have proffered numerous theories. But studying the biological phenomenon of menopause is difficult, in part because it seems to be so rare.
Lenny Letter, on the menopause for millennials beat.
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People complain about going to weddings. Well, I’d love to be invited.
