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Anonymous wrote:Becoming invisible.

And peri/menopause has been awful for me with the hot flashes and sleep disturbances. Five years after it started, I finally have a doctor helping me address it.

I love being invisible. My life is so peaceful. I feel like I just drift along in my own world oblivious to everyone's drama.

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Anonymous wrote:Becoming invisible.

And peri/menopause has been awful for me with the hot flashes and sleep disturbances. Five years after it started, I finally have a doctor helping me address it.

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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.

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Republicans ie women's health care, jobs, life as we knew it.

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Anonymous wrote:Not being able to purchase the bottom half of the shirt.

In all seriousness, I think it's sandwich generation stuff... raising kids in a time where very hands-on parenting is the norm, often while working a full-time job, while juggling aging parents.

Also, marital division of labor issues in two working-parent families. Many women my age (40) were raised that they could do anything and that has turned into doing everything.

I don't think parents of young children quality as "middle aged" they are younger women with different issues.

If you are 40 are you not middle aged? I would like to think I will live to be 90 but that's not realistic.

Now 30-40 year old women with young kids are middle aged? When do you become a senior citizen? 45?

Most people use 65 as the lone for seniors. People in their 20s are young adults. And 40 is in the middle. "Middle age" has always meant 40s.

Many in their 40s have young kids, I am one.

Another issue is being erased by people like the above ^ who aren't even middle aged but want to dominate the conversation and make it about them. Pretty much nobody wants to acknowledge middle aged women, including younger women.

Holy victimhood, batman. I'm the PP. I'm 44, DH is 46. We have a 10 yo. I'm in perimenopause, busy 2nd career, my parents are 75+ and failing rapidly, and my knee hurts if I stand up wrong. Yes, I'm middle aged.