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[quote=Anonymous]I think it’s sad that a woman of 81 is still desperate for the male gaze. And that women all over will see this and feel like crap because they don’t look like she does at 81 - never mind she’s had plenty of expensive work done, uses plenty of expensive products and has a life of leisure most women could not imagine and with which they, too, might have fewer wrinkles.

I do hospice work and I’ve spent most of the last decade with elders. I was also raised largely by my grandmother and spent a lot of time with her peers, so I’ve been around elders a great deal my whole life. I think elderly faces are beautiful with their deep grooves hard earned from enduring the wreckage that life can often bring.

It’s sad to me that the notion of diversity exhibited by this SI cover means applying the same ridiculous beauty standards put on young women onto older women, too. I guess we should all embrace being objectified right up to the grave, but it’s gross. Look what poor Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda did to their faces during the years that Grace & Frankie ran on Netflix - I loved the show because it focused on older folks, but the last couple of seasons they had both butchered their faces so badly it was painful to look at them, they were plastic and ugly. I would go to work with the lovely old wrinkled and yet beautiful woman I was nursing to the end, then go home and dial up G&F and it just made me sad.

Head’s up to the ladies doing this stuff to your faces and bodies - you will look like a freak if you are lucky enough to make it to your 90s. [/quote]

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