Welcome to another episode of Selective Ignorance.

I'm your host, Mandy B.

And this week I am joined by some really lovely guests talk about these several myths surrounding turning 30 for women.

Often being portrayed as a point of decline or a time when certain opportunities close.

Y'all, there is the shriveled up hag myth that talks about the attractiveness or less

desirability of women as they exit their 20s.

There's the end of youth myth where you should be a little bit more mature.

Your nails should be a certain color. Your makeup should be a little bit more demure. You shouldn't

be as youthful anymore. Then, of course, there is the conversations around parenting or your

career. Where should you be in your 30s? Should you be a housewife? Should you be married?

Should you be wet or should you be a C-suite level exec?

I think that there's so many conversations around what happens as we turn 30, as we navigate our 30s.

And of course, we get into, well, where society deems that we should all be as women, as mothers, as wise.

And so there's also the loss of fertility that has become the conversation in us being high

risk. And I forgot the goddamn word, but geriatric, there we go, the geriatric women. Also,

there's

instant adulting at

30. As a woman, you should

have everything figured out

and you should absolutely be out of your

whole face. That's what they say. I

disagree with all of these

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