Sari Botton

I'm just getting started.

And it was just mind-blowing.

And I've had a few other interactions, short relationships with younger men in my past, you know, in my late 30s.

And...

you know, it's so counter to what women are told is going to happen to them, that we're irrelevant, that we're invisible, that we're unattractive.

And throughout the piece, I have this refrain.

There's an ex that lives rent-free in my head, you know, telling me in my 30s that when we get older, he's going to still be able to get young women and I'm going to be invisible.

And, you know, and then throughout the piece, I talk about this encounter with a 27-year-old who we were in a dark, you know, we were eating at the bar.

It was dark.

I guess he couldn't see that I had gray hair and a wrinkly neck and a wedding band, by the way.

But it was a lovely conversation.

And it ended with him asking for my phone number, which was really not what I anticipated.

So there's a lot about getting older that is different than what we've been told or are being told.

I think it's capitalism.

I really do.

I think that.

brands make their money by creating problems and offering us solutions to them.

And, and so they're always trying to make us think we need more things.

We need more creams.

We need, I also think that we've got a youth obsessed culture.