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The Make-Believe Feminine “Prime” Years: Why Young Ladies Shouldn’t Allow Men To Ruin Their 20s
Live your life, have fun, and save those, “I don’t feel appreciated!” arguments for your older years.
I had to ask myself where this prime nonsense came from on one too many occasions for many reasons. One, our society tells us that the only gender who is either in or out of their prime years are women. As a result, women are the only group who are made to feel bad for something as natural, and might I add wonderful, as seeing another birthday year after year. Of course my questioning of our societal ideologies led me to the obvious answer, pointing to the irritating bunch of “humans” who sadistically enjoy making women feel bad for no goddamn reason:
Men.
Frankly, separating women into two categories where we are either in our prime or out of it is basically reducing us to incubators who either don’t know any better but to settle down with men and have their babies, or because we have developed a modicum of intelligence from life experience we are automatically deemed too old to be manipulated (er, courted) by men. Given that the brain isn’t fully developed until the age of 25 on average, it is quite fascinating how men claim that a woman’s prime years end around 25 years old. For the less choosy man, these years end at around 28 or…
