hello yall....ok i was watching desperate housewives on sunday....i just love that show and if you have not been following it closely...bree just got divirced and is dating a younger man....olsen is also dating a younger woman...so anyways the last episode was about how she was experiencing symptoms of menopause and was trying to hide it from her boo....so it got me thinking about double standards...first of all women often have to deal with societal/cultural double standards....there is a perception that women should not date younger men...and even dating someone that is your age....some would argue is not in the natural order of things....but we are also faced by another standard....a double standard that is inert in our nature....it is built into our dna and the way our bodies work...and if by now...ur very large brain has not figured out the not so obvious...lol.....it is called menopause...a stage in our life when our bodies plays some weired games on us.....we start experiencing hot flashes....we get all dried up....and yep we lose the ability to multiply....or to reproduce....yep....i am not saying that menopause is evil...heck i cannot wait to stop receiving my monthly gifts from mother nature....but it forces us to face the truth that we are aging and it also encourages the double standard that women cannot have meaningful longterm, till death does us apart relationship with men considerably younger than our age.....cos lets face most men want to reproduce and not adopt....if they can help it....thats my lil bleep...my bro wants his computer...but yeah..xoxo peeps

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