#Statement: This is the question I recently found myself asking on two major fronts. The first is among us women when it comes to nitpicking and discussing the way we look. Over spring break, as I was walking down the street to meet my friend for dinner one night, I overheard two women in their 70s talking about the wrinkles on their faces and the sagging skin around their arms. This isn’t a type of conversation I haven’t heard before; in fact, I hear it all the time — in every age group, in every friend group, in every setting. But watching these two ostensibly wise, older women with their long, flowing gray hair, distinguished trench coats and a host of unique life experiences dumb themselves down to the natural aging process of their skin genuinely terrified me. If this is what the next 50 years look like, I’m not sure I can do it, considering I’m exhausted after only 20. Does it ever end?
The second reason I found myself asking this question was because of male judgment of women’s...