{"id":162,"date":"2023-05-22T14:18:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T12:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/?p=162"},"modified":"2023-05-24T14:50:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:50:36","slug":"actually-women-are-allowed-to-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/index.php\/en\/2023\/05\/22\/actually-women-are-allowed-to-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Actually, women are allowed to age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cDaily Mail\u201d named 63-year-old Hugh Laurie \u201cthe sexiest TV doctor ever\u201d. \u201cEsquire\u201d wrote about 55-year-old Mads Mikkelsen, praising his high cheekbones and charismatic visuals. \u201cCosmopolitan\u201d released the whole article about \u201chot 56-year-old Keanu Reeves on the beach\u201d. Meanwhile, 56-year-old (&nbsp;<strong>obviously<\/strong>, not that hot anymore) Sarah Jessica Parker is \u201cbravely fighting with age\u201d on the pages of the same magazine. What\u2019s wrong with a \u201cyouth cult\u201d and why women are still ashamed of being old?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s naturally and understandably scary to age, but women have to get through ageing walk of shame, even if modern life is not just about reproduction possibilities. Cover your wrinkles. Hide your neck. Color your grey hair. Have an elastic body. Don\u2019t smile too much, don\u2019t squint too hard, don\u2019t go out in the sun. And don\u2019t expect to find a job or a partner if you are older than 45. Half of these \u201cadvises\u201d I\u2019ve already heard by the age of 16 and every time I\u2019ve asked myself a simple question. Am I still a human or an ancient vase that needs to be preserved at all costs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The median age of EU\u2019s population is 44 years old. Still, \u201cyouth cult\u201d is a commercial necessity. The fashion industry is making a lot of money on young, fresh faces, or not-so-young but \u201cmade fresh\u201d women&#8217;s faces. No wonder age is not considered attractive among us when models aged 15 to 30 are everywhere. Can you think of 5 advertisements for any brand involving an older woman? Me neither.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, I can name 10 advertisements for high-end, luxury brands with older men. Because 50+ for men is hot and charismatic, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Needless to say, my father never covered his wrinkles or grey hair. And here I am coloring my mother\u2019s roots every month because she is too self-conscious to even show up in public \u201cunkempt\u201d. But what\u2019s unkempt about my mom\u2019s age? Why this highly-respected woman with tons of life experience has to be defined just by her forehead wrinkles or grey hair?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s okay to have a fun, youthful spirit at any age. You can show off your body at 64 like Madonna. You can rock your grey hair like Sarah Jessica Parker. Don\u2019t be ashamed of natural processes in your body. Women are alive, real humans and they don\u2019t owe you never-ending pleasing looks, because we are actually allowed to age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arina Chernukha<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo: Pexels, Andrea Piacquadio<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDaily Mail\u201d named 63-year-old Hugh Laurie \u201cthe sexiest TV doctor ever\u201d. \u201cEsquire\u201d wrote about 55-year-old Mads Mikkelsen, praising his high cheekbones and charismatic visuals. \u201cCosmopolitan\u201d released the whole article about \u201chot 56-year-old Keanu Reeves on the beach\u201d. Meanwhile, 56-year-old (&nbsp;obviously, not that hot anymore) Sarah Jessica Parker is \u201cbravely fighting with age\u201d on the pages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monitor.vistula.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}