Why Aren't Women Allowed to Wrinkle? EmRata Asks

High Low with EmRata

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture

3.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Women and femme presenting people spend billions of dollars annually to try and appear younger and slow down the inevitable: aging. Today I reference some of my favorite writing on women and getting older and talk about why so may of us fear losing our youth and discuss the how (and if!) we can change the way we think about age and beauty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Weirdly, I felt older at 27 than I did at 31.
0:11.0	I think at 27, I was like, oh my god, my 20s are coming to an end.
0:14.6	What's the rest of my life going to be like?
0:16.4	And now at 31, I feel super young.
0:26.0	Hello, everyone.
0:27.4	Welcome back to another episode of MRADA asks,
0:30.6	Hi, hello with MRADA.
0:31.9	This is a solo episode.
0:33.8	Today we're talking about aging, getting older,
0:38.4	specifically as it relates to gender.
0:42.8	This is something I thought about a lot,
0:44.8	and I touched on a little bit in my book.
0:47.2	My mom, super beautiful woman, and she
0:51.1	was telling me one day when she decided
0:53.9	to stop coloring her hair and just go gray.
0:56.7	She, you know, like, and how it makes her feel
0:59.3	to now be a gray-haired lady.
1:01.2	And like the decision, because it looks really good on her.
1:04.9	But she was talking about, she was walking down the street,
1:08.8	and she saw these like two, you know, youngish men,
1:11.8	not super young, but like young guys.
1:14.6	And she kind of just naturally, like,
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