middle-aged feminist

[bananawolf]

Why are 'middle-aged feminists' so loathed in society by younger people? Doesn't that describe the average student's Mum?

We crossed posts there. Yes and OJ has become a every wealthy individual exploiting society.

I think that young attractive women are pandered to by men in our society. They believe that they are considered equal, when in reality, it's just that men want to have sex with them.

The older we get, the more invisible we become and we wake up one day to see that we are being ignored in favour of the pretty, young new girl and realise that we were never considered to be equal to men, just indulged as "favoured pets".

That's obviously a mass generalisation, but it syncs with what I and a lot of my friends have discovered since passing 35.

You are not like other girls is part of the conditioning in the guise of a compliment.

'I understand the gossip amongst retired women is that they resent the young under 30 for being so disrespectful towards them, lots of it wasn't like that in our day. '

Well that's hearsay.
And do retired men rise above such gossip?

“'I understand the gossip amongst retired women is that they resent the young under 30 for being so disrespectful towards them, lots of it wasn't like that in our day”

Gosh. Who do you understand this from?

HubrisComicGhoul

I think that young attractive women are pandered to by men in our society. They believe that they are considered equal, when in reality, it's just that men want to have sex with them.

Absolutely agree with this.

Also there must be a biological imperative for young men and women to be nicer to each other to continue the species.

I can confirm that urge wears off with age....

Divide and conquer, it suits society AKA the patriarchy if young women don't pay too much attention to what older women say. So we all relearn each generation's lessons growing up.
Dismissing older peoples expwriences seems to be a feature of humanity but the deliberate omission of women's experiences and contributions from our societies narrative and history means women experience it to a greater extent.

I think women talking to each otger too much is a threat and making older women seem irrelevant is a strategy to counter that.

Haha - yes to the young, attractive women thinking that they are considered equal ... that is until the new ones turn up or if the scales fall away (sexual harassment).

But really what about real old hags - Germaine - even further along the spectrum of being despised

I thought my MIL was OTT with her new-found feminism when I was in my 20's.

I am now her...

I thought all the battles had been won in the 80's. I now see it's the same shit over and over again.

Women are the only demographic that gets more radical as they age.

he he he. They want to discredit us because they know we don't care about all their would-be silencing mansplainy crap. We've seen it all before.

• I'm a feminazi because I don't dress, speak or act to please men
• I'm a TERF (penis-exclusionary) when it comes to women's spaces and a TERF (lesbian ally) with respect to lesbian spaces
• I'm a SWERF (pimp- and punter- exclusionary) because I think women's right to choose sex work is less important than women's right to choose not to be prostituted
• I'm a carceral feminist because I think there should be genuine deterrents with respect to male violence against women
• I'm sex-negative because I only have sex when I feel like it and when the sex that's on offer is the kind I enjoy
• I'm shrill because I want to be heard
• I'm aggressive because I'm not going to shut up
• I'm angry because I'm angry

and I'm comfortable with all of that.

Oh TallulahWaitingInTheRain, that’s what I want to see on a poster!