I am a baby boomer, at the young end but booming all the same.
Some of my contemporaries are complaining that boomering is slowly fading them into invisibility.
A visiting priest at my church once said,
“The best thing about turning sixty this week is that I will no longer have to keep up my image as a sex symbol.”
I haven’t turned sixty yet and I don’t think I ever aspired to sex symbolism but the best thing for me about booming is:
- No one gropes me, chats me up, sidles closer to me on a bus,
- Stares, wolf whistles, rubs against me on the tube,
- Honks horns, flirts shamelessly, makes kissing noises as I walk,
- Mentally undresses me, calls me chick, yells sexist comments from a car,
- Remarks on my breasts, leers at the flicker of my tongue, or pinches my bottom.
If this is invisibility then BRING IT ON!
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I totally agree with She Cat. The man is an abusive control freak and things will only get worse if you stay.
Hi Bonnie,
Hi Bonnie,
Girl, don't lose hope. Maybe there will be someone in those two merged churches, there just might be someone there who catches your eye, eh? Stay hopeful.
Sending love to ANYONE will make YOU feel better. It is not about condoning the actions of someone who is clearly bent on destruction, or the terrorists in the Boston bombing or anyone who would take away life or liberty of others. I wonder if any
I actually agree with you. It’s liberating. I get to be all of me instead of a one dimensional ideal that I can never measure up to. I feel more confident and more attractive than I ever did when I was twenty something or even thirty plus for that matter. The best part is that I’m enjoying it precisely because it really only matters to me these days. Being a sex symbol is exhausting.
Gosh you ladies are hot! I never felt like a sex symbol, but I do feel sexier now and more comfortable in my own skin than ever before. I think it’s confidence. I don’t give a rat’s behind what people think. So there’s not that keeping up with the Jones’s thing. I take care of myself, exercise, try and eat well…not always successful there, but I try. I take the time to put my makeup on when I go out. Every once in awhile I get a second look even now at 57. And I’ll take it!