#ageisjustanumber

[hyperlexichypatia]

I know I keep posting about this, and it's absolutely becoming my Thing, but I keep getting into arguments about it, and I have to keep saying: It just KEEPS being absolutely BONKERS to me that "raise the age of majority"/"young adults should be considered children" is considered a QUEER FRIENDLY position in QUEER circles. Not only because denying agency to queer youth is both a current and historical queerphobic argument, but also, because queer youth are disproportionately likely to be abused, rejected, or estranged by their families of origin, and thus, to be materially harmed, not only by the egregiously dehumanizing status of minorhood until they're 18, but also, later as young adults, by financial policies that won't let them, for example, apply for aid or sign leases without their parents. And for people who profess to be so worried about young adults getting into abusive or exploitative relationships with older partners, there is a shocking lack of awareness that a leading cause of such relationships (that are abusive/exploitative and also involve age difference; I'm not accepting the premise that all age-difference relationships are abusive/exploitative) is such relationships being the only way young people can escape the control of their parents. I could understand the naivete of this position if it were held by people with unusually accepting and supportive parents, people who don't understand that such parents aren't the norm, but no, people will straight out say "My parents were/are abusive/estranged, and also, I shouldn't have been considered a legal adult until I was 24." Some of them try to square this circle with "18-20something people should be considered children, but children should have more rights than they currently have," yet without seeming to realize the absolute sub-basement level of rights that minors currently have. I saw one person espousing this position give the example that underage teens "Can work, go to the store, and date other teens" within limits -- but neglected to mention that the unspoken clause in this is "if their parents let them." "I was emotionally immature when I was 22." Friend, let me stop you right there. Let's set aside the problems with the social construction of "emotional (im)maturity" and how it relates to classism and capitalism -- if that's true, do you not realize that your "emotional immaturity" was/is a direct result of being developmentally inappropriately controlled? If you're "emotionally immature" at 22, it's because you're just beginning the individuation process you should've been doing 5-10 years prior.

#youth rights #ageism #liberation #ageisjustanumber #queer community #queer

[ceoofcougartown]

Going into 2023 with Star ⭐️ Quality Mindset..

#gray hair #agingbeautifully #healthy aging #ceoofcougartown #starquality #mindset #cougartown #grey hair #ageisjustanumber

[joanninkshop]

🤔✨ Age is just a number, but sometimes I feel old. Then I see my collection of t-shirts and realize they've been around longer than some people's relationships. 🙈 Buy Now

#tshirtlove #nostalgia #aginggracefully #AgeIsJustANumber #SisterLove #FeelingYoungAgain #FamilyBonding 🌟 #trendytshirt #tshirt #tshirts #tshirtdesign #customtshirt #teespring #merchdesign #typographytshirt #fashion #streetwear #cartoon #graphictshirt #trendy #customtshirtdesign #tees #tshirtart #clothingdesign #graphictees #streetweardesign #trendytshirts #tshirtmerchandise

[myactivetribe]

#fitness #activelifestyle #ageisjustanumber #seniors #cardio #healthy

[the-girl-not-next-door]

I am just a simple woman, wanting to wear a pretty dress, without being asked if it is age-appropriate.

#adulting #30s #30 years #millennial #woman #aging #age #ageisjustanumber #sarcasm #joke #party

[jiujitsunews]

Jiu jitsu is not just for young people. It's a sport that can be enjoyed at any age and at any fitness level. #nevertooold #ageisjustanumber #BJJ #jiujitsu #MMA #grappling #training #martialarts #fitness #ibjjf #jujutsu https://www.instagram.com/p/CpmyJcUjFbl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#nevertooold #ageisjustanumber #bjj #jiujitsu #mma #grappling #training #martialarts #fitness #ibjjf #jujutsu

[pinkfeathergurl]

Don’t Let Society Tell you how to live your life. 🙅‍♀️

Cuz society is obsessed with plans, dreams, and success so much that it creates a negative standard and expectation on how a certain person should behave.

Ask yourself, what do you want, and what are you willing to give up? And whose voice will you listen to – yours, society’s, or your family’s?

Don’t give up! Don’t live your life on others’ expectations. It's your decision, how your life wants to be. 💪♀️

#femaleempowerment #femaleartist #womensupportingwomen #equality #selfcare #selflove #wellbeing #ladieswhodesign #femaleillustrator #girlssupportgirls #atribeofwomen #creativewomencommunity #feministglobe #iweigh #procreate #womeninspiringwomen #ageisjustanumber #feministjazzy #thebodyisnotanapology #theguardian

[dutchplayboyfans]

@portfolio_mirjam ❤️One from 2021, but which I hadn't posted before. I didn't want to keep him from you because he's too beautiful.💋 Hope you like it too 😜 . . . 📸 @goddess_fotografie . . . #selfconfidence #bestagermodel50 #fashionable50 #healthysexyfifty #midlifewomen #agepositive #figuremodeling #bedifferent #bestshooter_portraits #naturelovers #over50andfabulous #womanwithstyle #stylehasnoage #loveyourself #selfconfidence #50plusandfabulous #maturebeauty #over50model #agelessstyle #agelessbeauty #ageisjustanumber #agegracefully #agepositivemodel #womansinspiration #lovelifetothefullest #ladiesteamfamily #nice_womenlover #modelover50 #boudoirphotography #bodypositive https://www.instagram.com/p/CnbSbivK7Mi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#selfconfidence #bestagermodel50 #fashionable50 #healthysexyfifty #midlifewomen #agepositive #figuremodeling #bedifferent #bestshooter_portraits #naturelovers #over50andfabulous #womanwithstyle #stylehasnoage #loveyourself #50plusandfabulous #maturebeauty #over50model #agelessstyle #agelessbeauty #ageisjustanumber #agegracefully #agepositivemodel #womansinspiration #lovelifetothefullest #ladiesteamfamily #nice_womenlover #modelover50 #boudoirphotography #bodypositive

[midlifemagick]

"I’m happy to be 54, and I don't want to be lured into thinking I'm not!

I am happy to be the exact age I am and I want to see more people my age being happy being their age.

I want more middle aged people in my feed!

I want more 50 or 60 something people showing off their half naked bodies feeling it's natural." -Shama Persson

#midlifemagick #proage #midlifestyle #agingwell #over50style #ageisjustanumber #over50fashion #sexyover50 #over 50 #fitover50 #proaging #Instagram

[hyperlexichypatia]

Having children and going to college are two life activities done by people within an incredibly wide age range, so it’s completely bonkers that either one is considered an age marker.

And by “bonkers” I mean ageist, classist, and eugenicist.

There is a wide range of ages at which people go to college (many people never do, by choice or by circumstance, which is fine). There is a wide range of ages at which people have children (many people never do, by choice or by circumstance, which is fine). They don’t have to be done in any particular time, or in any particular order, or at all. They should both be far more affordable than they currently are, ideally free, but that’s another day’s post. 

Half of college students in the U.S. are over age 25, and 23% are parents. When people refer to college students as “children,” I always correct them on both points – young adults are not children, and also, most college students are not young adults. The notion that all college students are single, childless young adults aged 18-23, who are living essentially an extension of their K-12 schooling controlled by their parents, is a cultural norm of only a minority subculture of people in the U.S., one with… more financial resources than average. I’m reluctant to use the word “privilege,” because I don’t believe being controlled by one’s parents really is a privilege, but it’s certainly a bourgeois class norm. 

Similarly, the cultural norm that people can only start having children when they’re completely finished with schooling, in their late 20s at the earliest, and married or partnered, is not at all reflective of the reality of many people’s reproductive choices. 

Several years ago, I briefly did some freelance writing for a magazine aimed at college students, and in one article, I used a hypothetical example involving "babysitting your friend's kids." My editor returned it with a note that a college student wouldn't have friends with kids. Not even that a college student wouldn't have kids -- already a false premise -- but that a college student wouldn't have friends with kids. This has stuck in my mind for years as an example of how absolutely out-of-touch people in this narrow subculture are about the educational and reproductive choices of others.

There are material consequences of the erasure of student parents, too, like a serious lack of accessible childcare for students' children.

“What could a 20 year old and a 35 year old possibly have in common?? One is still in college, and the other might have kids already!” 

Actually, they might both be in college. 

Or maybe neither is.

They might have met in the same college class. 

They might both have kids. 

Or maybe neither does.

Maybe the 20 year old already has one or more kids, and the 35 year old has none. 

Maybe they each have a baby, and they met in the same parent group and hang out at playdates. 

Maybe the 35 year old is pregnant with xyr first baby and asking advice from the 20 year old who’s pregnant with her third. 

Maybe the 35 year old left school when he had his first kid, and now he and his now-17-year-old are starting college at the same time (I know there’s at least one movie with this premise). 

Or, maybe, the 20 year old is a childless college student, and the 35 year old is a college graduate with kids, and they could still have plenty in common, because age, educational situation, and family arrangement aren’t the sum total of who a person is. 

One of my mom’s longest-lasting friends of several decades was someone she met when they were 44 and 18, respectively, with a 3-year-old and 1-year-old kid, respectively, living in student housing. This is not as unusual a situation as people think it is. Fortunately, this happened before the brain maturity myth had taken hold, so no one accused my mom of "grooming" or being "predatory" or "emotionally inappropriate behavior" towards her younger friend, even if she was occasionally mistaken for her friend's mother.

Age diversity and prevalence of student parents are even more widespread at community colleges and all-online college programs (for obvious reasons, as those types of programs often have more flexible scheduling). In the online college program I'm doing now, my classmates include 20-year-old parents, 50-year-old grandparents, childfree 40-year-olds, and pretty much every combination of age and family type possible.

I'm so glad the real world doesn't conform to the ridiculous notion of "life stages."

#ageism #youth rights #classism #capitalism #age is just a number #age discourse #ageisjustanumber #college

[ceoofcougartown]

#gray hair #ceoofcougartown #ageisjustanumber #cougartown #agingbeautifully

[joanninkshop]

🤔✨ Sometimes I feel old, but then I realize my sister is older! 😅👵👧 It's funny how age can be relative.

#AgeIsJustANumber #SisterLove #FeelingYoungAtHeart #FamilyFun 🌟🙌😄 #TBT #ThrowbackThursday

[stevenophotography]

Kim in red and blue @gracefully_grey #silverhair #greyhair #grayhair #silversisters #greyhairmovement #over50andfabulous #maturewomanstyle #maturewoman #womaninspiration #womanempowerment #ageisjustanumber #embracethegrey #naturalgrey #silverhairmodel #olderandwiser #artinaging #greyhairissexy #proagingmovement #lifestyle #lifestylemodel #ditchthedye #sexymaturewoman #oursilverstory #greyistheneblonde #over50model #worthy #confidence #silverandsexy (at Columbus, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiUsPdduCyR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#silverhair #greyhair #grayhair #silversisters #greyhairmovement #over50andfabulous #maturewomanstyle #maturewoman #womaninspiration #womanempowerment #ageisjustanumber #embracethegrey #naturalgrey #silverhairmodel #olderandwiser #artinaging #greyhairissexy #proagingmovement #lifestyle #lifestylemodel #ditchthedye #sexymaturewoman #oursilverstory #greyistheneblonde #over50model #worthy #confidence #silverandsexy

[fitpaul40]

Age is just a number! Look at Sly. He is 76 and he still rocks! And you can too. Don’t give up! Force your way!

(photo respectively taken from Howard Schatz photoshoot)

#sylvester stallone #rambo #rocky balboa #beautiful body #bodybuilding #ftiman #agedfitness #strongman #ageisjustanumber #fitover40

[nicsplace]

It's been my birthday thing for the past few years to wake up and snap a pic first thing after getting my eyes open and un-blurry. 49 wakes up just like every other day. With yesterday's makeup smudged, tangled hair and grateful to have another day on this earth to try and make a difference and positively impact others and show those close to me how much I care for them. Same thing, new day. I truly feel so blessed to wake up to so much love come from y'all for my birthday across multiple social media platforms, messages and texts. The best gift from y'all is the amazing gift of your friendship! Thank you, each and every one! It's a great way to wake up! ❤ #HappyBithdayToMe #Birthday #HappyBirthday #BirthdayGirl #BirthdayQueen #49AndFabulous #49YearsYoung #Akmost50 #AgeIsJustANumber #LookingGood #FeelingFine #SingleMom #SingleMomLife #LivePassionately #LiveALifeYouWontRegret #AnotherYearBetter #BetterEveryDay #StrongerThings #AllNatural #TexasGirl #Over40 #GenX #Follow https://www.instagram.com/p/CfojBLWOoUK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#happybithdaytome #birthday #happybirthday #birthdaygirl #birthdayqueen #49andfabulous #49yearsyoung #akmost50 #ageisjustanumber #lookinggood #feelingfine #singlemom #singlemomlife #livepassionately #livealifeyouwontregret #anotheryearbetter #bettereveryday #strongerthings #allnatural #texasgirl #over40 #genx #follow

[kiwiified]

So I guess I'm back... much older and just as immature...

30, flirty and thriving.... more like 30, shirty and (kind of) surviving

Oh and I'm such a goddamn weeb it hurts!

Current 2D obsession - Levi Ackerman

Because how can you not....

#ageisjustanumber #30 flirty and thriving #levi ackerman #my brain is mush