It’s not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, it’s homophobia. It’s not the color of their skin that makes life harder for people of color; it’s racism. It’s not having vaginas that makes life harder for women, it’s sexism. And it’s ageism, far more than the passage of time, that makes growing older harder for all of us. Ashton Applewhite
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  1. Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it–every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.
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