Yesterday I looked around at all the sagging breasts, stretched out stomachs , and over ripe tuches at my Silver Sneakers exercise class and I laughed. Of course I didn’t laugh out loud; but my soul was grinning like the Cheschire Cat. Suddenly I realized that all the shrill man hating # Metoo harpies will someday grow old ( if they’re blessed to do so) and look just like us. If they just have patience the day will come when the “toxic” and uninvited attention of the male is no longer. Appreciative male eyes will rest on the perky beauty of a daughter, niece, or young co worker instead of Ms #Metoo. She will suddenly be no more. Our feminist socialists or socialist feminists can’t rig the life cycle no matter how much they whine, march, and screech: ergo, #Youtoo will grow old.
These days I have just enough energy and flexibility to sit on a chair and lift a ball above my head eight times and do other low impact exercises. Everyday I thank G-d that at my age (70) I can still get up every morning at 5:30 and go to work as an assistant in an elementary school autistic cluster. Due to my life choices I have no retirement. There is no pension. My plan is to work until I can’t.
When I was young and perky I taught every grade level in public and private schools. I also taught Sunday school and Hebrew. When I wasn’t appearing as the story teller Princess Pam of Storyland I did stand up comedy and thrilled to hear the audience laugh at the jokes I wrote myself. In addition, I was appointed to a Human Relations Commision and believed it was an honor. I take pride that both my children stayed Jews and my grandchildren are being raised as Jews. Today I am invisible. Senior citizens, like me,are written off because we have a hard time walking, controlling our diabetes, or we have a lot of wrinkles and look OLD. What is ignored is that we know things.
One of the things we know is that people change, but human nature doesn’t. Telling the world that there is more than two sexes makes less sense than many fairy tales we grew up with. Proclaiming that women don’t need men to raise children is another whopper. Many young women grew up hearing and believing “they can do it themselves.” I was divorced and raised two kids. If someone asked me, I wouldn’t recommend it. Both boys and girls need fathers. Too many children live without fathers and it effects our whole society. Why, one has to ask, does anyone want to change the structure of society? The answer, I’m afraid isn’t good.
Old people , like me, also know that “freeing” women to have a career has made their lives harder. We remember coming home from school and having a mother there to say,” Have a cookie. Drink your milk. Then go do your homework.” Now moms comes home from work exhausted and are thankful they can stop and bring home fast food. Between her family and work a woman is always squeezed and feels so stressed out that she believes she’s bi- polar because that’s how her counselor diagnosed her. Old people like me know that.
Joan Collins is said to have said, ” When a woman loses her beauty it’s like losing all her money.” Using her analogy, the #Metoo girls should appreciate their youth and beauty because soon they’ll be old – and broke. All the botox in the world can’t stop it. The one positive is that there won’t be a lot of men to harrass them anymore. In my exercise class there’s 30 women to three men ! Remember,#Youtoo will grow old.