Martha Stewart's Sports Illustrated Cover Means Next To Nothing
Yes 👏🏻 yes 👏🏻 yes 👏🏻 !!
I saw this cover and I thought, good for her, but what about all the airbrushing, and wild privilege that makes it possible for her to look this way? Not groundbreaking at all for any of us normal aging people.
As I navigate my mid-40s, perimenopausal body shifting and slow growing invisibility, it’s exhausting to hear the message that I should just go grey! When I don’t have the face of a 20 year old that would make it socially acceptable for me to do so.
If I “let myself go” as it were, I would be more invisible, more ignorable, and more unfuckable than ever. And while I don’t care about society’s general opinion about me, I do recognize that to opt out, I set myself up for permanent isolation. As an “unemployed “ SAHM, I know that I am quickly becoming useless by societies standards, because in order to be taken seriously, I need to first be seen as willing to opt in to the striving for the youthful potential that I can’t ever reach.
Anyway, thank you for putting into words all the ways that this is not groundbreaking at all.
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