Reply #22: i am an older woman so i have to live in the real world

[amazona]

Grow old gracefully? No effin' way! Nature has programmed us to respond positively to youthful, smooth faces which communicate a message of health and fertility. Women who let themselves go are not perceived as powerful; they are perceived as depressed and powerless.

You have a question of, should Pelosi (or any other woman) reclaim her wrinkles in order to appeal to a minority that prefers wrinkles or to appeal to the majority (the HUGE number of people who actually prefer smoother faces to wrinkled "expressive" ones).

I would assume that it makes more sense to appeal to the widest number of people. Looking younger and fresher is better than looking tired and wrinkled. We can't delay it forever but for heaven's sake, we shouldn't just passively allow "nature to take its course!"

Living beyond peri-menopause is an unnatural act. Let's embrace the improvements that technology has given us. Most people want to look young and feel young. No one is jumping all over the MALE candidates who get Botox'd and face peeled. Even the Resident mostly gets a pass on his face peels, although when he has a fresh one we get a chuckle at looking at the blotchy aftermath. Somehow, when a man gets a face peel, it is fighting cancer; when a woman gets a face peel or other treatment, she is fake?

I can't agree. Yes to Botox. Yes to all of it. If it works even halfway, it is better than nothing at all.

Growing old gracefully is not appropriate for someone who doesn't feel old and doesn't live old. There will be time enough to grow old gracefully when I am actually old. To let myself go is, in a sense, lying about who I am.



i've had a tragic face peel myself on occasion so i could almost sympathize with the whistle ass, well, not really