What is the worst issue confronting middle aged women in 2024

[Anonymous]

Omg, stop arguing about what middle age is!

[Anonymous]

The constant need to look young and spend tons of money to achieve it. All these treatments are thousands. Hair extensions, Botox, IPL, dermaplaning, bayalage, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:The constant need to look young and spend tons of money to achieve it. All these treatments are thousands. Hair extensions, Botox, IPL, dermaplaning, bayalage, etc.

Yes but this is linked to the overall cultural attitude that women have no value after 40. Women work hard to look young because looking middle aged or, god forbid, old is a form of social death. Literally people will stop caring what you think or say once you are considered an old woman. So yes, people who can afford it do all the procedures and face pressure from peers to "keep up" with the procedures THEY are doing because otherwise it's social death. You're alive, but irrelevant.

That's the fight. Being a relevant person as a woman over 40. It's very hard. You are fighting against hundreds of years of belief that gets reinforced by men of all ages, the media, even women. Watch how women pick each other apart. The meanest things you can say about a woman are "she looks fat" and "she looks old." Saying a woman is fat and old is like a nail in a coffin. And we're all fighting against this, and hormones and gravity and life are working to makes us look fatter and older.

[Anonymous]

Reproductive choice and bodily autonomy.

Literally nothing else matters.

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Anonymous wrote:elder care.

yep, this.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I think it’s the rise of misogyny as an overt political platform of both parties. Both parties are openly throwing themselves into misogyny as a winning electoral issue. It’s frankly terrifying.

What is the Dem misogyny?

The progressive wing of the party has leaned in hard on taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. The refusal to unequivocally condemn the documented sexual violence from Hamas and the silence of progressive women’s organizations (which are all Democrat supporters) on the issue has been extremely demoralizing. I started 10/7 as someone who would have probably said that I am largely aligned with the Democratic progressives on issues related to Israel, but the horrific minimization from that wing of the party of the sexual torture endured by Israeli women and children has been profoundly shocking to me, and just part and parcel of the overall trend of using misogyny as a political platform.

The Democrats have also been leading the charge in eliminating sex-based protections and spaces for women and they seem to be openly pretending that women haven’t been terrorized for millennia because of their biology. This comes up in various contexts, including the self-ID laws that they’ve pushed, and the extreme misogynist reaction to women who point out safety issues for women’s prisons, women’s sports, and other hard-fought spaces of sanctuary for women. A lot of current gender ideology is rooted in extreme misogyny, and the Democrats have leaned in heavily on that.

My political allegiance for years has been to the party that supports women, because I believe that leads to better societies. But I have no home now. Obviously the Republicans are out. But now the Democrats are too. The Democrats seem to have seen how successful misogyny as a platform was for the Republicans and just adopted that approach.

Agree about the death of women's sports (and female-only restrooms.) Why did we fight so hard for sports only to hand them over to men? Makes no sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Reproductive choice and bodily autonomy.

Literally nothing else matters.

I think these are important issues but in middle age women age out of reproduction. It's like the one good thing about getting older as a woman. Sure, people think you are stupid and pointless and crazy, but also republican congressmen and right wing judge stop trying to control your uterus.

[Anonymous]

Loneliness

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Anonymous wrote:Reproductive choice and bodily autonomy.

Literally nothing else matters.

Middle age women are beyond childbearing years. So why does it matter?

[Anonymous]

Healthcare dismissing our issues.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I think it’s the rise of misogyny as an overt political platform of both parties. Both parties are openly throwing themselves into misogyny as a winning electoral issue. It’s frankly terrifying.

What is the Dem misogyny?

The progressive wing of the party has leaned in hard on taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. The refusal to unequivocally condemn the documented sexual violence from Hamas and the silence of progressive women’s organizations (which are all Democrat supporters) on the issue has been extremely demoralizing. I started 10/7 as someone who would have probably said that I am largely aligned with the Democratic progressives on issues related to Israel, but the horrific minimization from that wing of the party of the sexual torture endured by Israeli women and children has been profoundly shocking to me, and just part and parcel of the overall trend of using misogyny as a political platform.

The Democrats have also been leading the charge in eliminating sex-based protections and spaces for women and they seem to be openly pretending that women haven’t been terrorized for millennia because of their biology. This comes up in various contexts, including the self-ID laws that they’ve pushed, and the extreme misogynist reaction to women who point out safety issues for women’s prisons, women’s sports, and other hard-fought spaces of sanctuary for women. A lot of current gender ideology is rooted in extreme misogyny, and the Democrats have leaned in heavily on that.

My political allegiance for years has been to the party that supports women, because I believe that leads to better societies. But I have no home now. Obviously the Republicans are out. But now the Democrats are too. The Democrats seem to have seen how successful misogyny as a platform was for the Republicans and just adopted that approach.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. I think it’s the rise of misogyny as an overt political platform of both parties. Both parties are openly throwing themselves into misogyny as a winning electoral issue. It’s frankly terrifying.

What is the Dem misogyny?

The progressive wing of the party has leaned in hard on taking the side of using rape and sexual assault as a weapon of political terror. The refusal to unequivocally condemn the documented sexual violence from Hamas and the silence of progressive women’s organizations (which are all Democrat supporters) on the issue has been extremely demoralizing. I started 10/7 as someone who would have probably said that I am largely aligned with the Democratic progressives on issues related to Israel, but the horrific minimization from that wing of the party of the sexual torture endured by Israeli women and children has been profoundly shocking to me, and just part and parcel of the overall trend of using misogyny as a political platform.

The Democrats have also been leading the charge in eliminating sex-based protections and spaces for women and they seem to be openly pretending that women haven’t been terrorized for millennia because of their biology. This comes up in various contexts, including the self-ID laws that they’ve pushed, and the extreme misogynist reaction to women who point out safety issues for women’s prisons, women’s sports, and other hard-fought spaces of sanctuary for women. A lot of current gender ideology is rooted in extreme misogyny, and the Democrats have leaned in heavily on that.

My political allegiance for years has been to the party that supports women, because I believe that leads to better societies. But I have no home now. Obviously the Republicans are out. But now the Democrats are too. The Democrats seem to have seen how successful misogyny as a platform was for the Republicans and just adopted that approach.

This.

+100

[Anonymous]

China, probably.

[Anonymous]

Middle parts

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Anonymous wrote:Reproductive choice and bodily autonomy.

Literally nothing else matters.

If we don’t get a handle on climate change - literally everything else will pale in comparison.

For me one of the biggest issues is imparting hope to the next generation while the planet is burning, western democracies have been destabilized and women’s human rights are under attack.

We are supposed to leave the world a better place for the next generation not leave our youth with insurmountable problems.