Ladies Room — Episode 5: Aging

Ladies Room is a series of text conversations that stem from casual discussions among peers. Often such insignificant interactions leave you with significant things to wonder about. The language of this series will be primarily English but often major parts of it just may be in Urdu. Updates are dependent purely open on the frequency of something being considered substantial enough to be put out like this.

The context of this discussion has been eliminated due to privacy concerns. But the points are still valid to the individuals and to others who may associate with them.

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Sana: Men are always deemed attractive when they’re older & grey. Meanwhile, women are expected to shrivel up and die in a corner at the first sign of aging.

Sabahat: Just the absolute truth and reality. Honestly, most women, once we decide that we truly love a man, many of the 'wishes' we speak of in our younger years, get moulded to the man we give our hearts to. And we accept the man we chose, in every way they present themselves. Because for us, it has so much to do with the emotions and feelings we attach with them. That other things start to matter less, for example physical attributes over time. But SO MANY. men hold physical attractiveness and beauty to such high standards even when they get older. They may say they don't care, but subconsciously, because it's so ingrained in them that they end up caring, and then their interest 'wavers' so to keep the attention intact, women have to go to such lengths to prove themselves to still be desirable. It doesn't help that the society only fuels the fire.