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Oh, The Burdens of being a Woman..
Topic Started: 16 Mar 2009, 09:06 AM (91 Views)
High Priestess
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Bear with me folks for this could be infectious...

There I sit, but for the grace of God of an otherwise pleasant evening, tucking in to a nice home-cooked meal when a series of TV adverts alert me to the fact that in twenty years time I am going to be some or all of the following:

Incontinent
Unfashionable
Menopausal
Wrinkled
Bald
Bloated
Itching in intimate areas

But alas, for £49.99 I can go to Boots the chemist and cure all my ills with a series of potions and creams.

Brought to you by Tenalady - because I'm worth it :lol:
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Oh no, I'll feel unfashionable, what a disaster... :huh:
I'd rather deal with all the problems of aging by myself than give money to someone on the tellie. Even going to the hospital is bound to either kill or scar you, so I'll be happy to stay at home when I'm old...
Edited by Janny, 16 Mar 2009, 03:31 PM.
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I very often see that advertisment on TV """because I'm worth it"""
Now I know what it means, ah,ah,ah,ah,
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I DETEST commercials......eyelift creams...wrinkle creams......products to fill in the cracks like I'm a plaster wall.........put it on with a trowel........pmsl......not for me...I'm gray and a bit wrinkled but hey I'm 50......nothing sadder than an older woman dressing like a teenager.....cramming the rolls into something 3 sizes too small.....or a 65 year old with jet black hair.....not that it doesn't happen...........whatever happened to our elders being revered for their wisdom instead of their looks?????
Edited by Maurrie, 18 Mar 2009, 08:28 PM.
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Thing is, Kate, they assume we are all the same and all prone to the same biological and physiological changes.

I'm 40 and still have the same figure I had twenty years ago, probably because I haven't gone through childbirth (or indeed the McDonalds drive-thru more than a handful of times) :ha:

A great many of the physical changes to women's bodies can result from having children which puts an enormous strain on the body. Women's tummies are less elastic, their boobs are never quite the same again and then they are run ragged for the next twenty years trying to maintain order!!

Obviously, our bodies lose muscle tone over the years if we don't exercise to maintain definition but then I have to say that Madonna looks positively hideous to my mind with her overworked arm muscles. She works out a reputed 4 times per day but it looks too contrived for a woman of 50 who shouldn't be too concerned about a bit of flab. Who really wants to see a lady in her eighties do the slpits and walk around with a head that looks like it's on the body of a twenty year-old athlete? O.O

That's ageist I know, and I am not generally ageist but we just aren't accustomed to seeing it I suppose, hence it looks rather distasteful for no other reason than we are unaccustomed to such sites.

But men have it too. Beer guts and whatever else they suffer hehe!
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Oh, you have no idea what we men have to go through too! Had a terrible time with my male menopause!

I too have retained my figure, Lo. The only problem I have is that my wardrobe is very damp so everything has shrunk and I have difficulty getting some of my clothes to fasten up.

Thank goodness we don't get funeral director adverts on TV, at least.
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As I wear rags and look like I am homeless it does not matter....


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