Never having fit beauty standards can make old age a relative advantage

Evidence

Even in my youth, I was never cast as the ingénue; never considered a real beauty by American white bread standards. Now, older and fatter, it works in my favor. I am still fertile. That is, mentally fertile. You won’t see me featured anytime soon on the 11 o’clock news as the oldest woman to ever give birth. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 280

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Age combined with gender denies women the respect aging grants men

Broader Connections

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