I think people were just responding to the overall presentation, not necessarily weight per se. The women and the photographs are all amazing, beautiful, inspirational. This thread was never about diminishing them. They are really wonderful.

Re: wrinkles, I mean, I freaked at the first wrinkle I found when I was 40. Now I'm like: Meh, so I smile and my eyes crinkle. I can't do anything to change it short of surgery, so whatever.

I almost never click on pink comments, but I just really wanted to say thanks for your words. It may sound stupid, but I really appreciate it. I love this site, and I have a feeling my visits will be far less frequent, so I'll miss it.

Glad to be of assistance. And it's all true. Unless you are a Real Housewife of somewhere, or make your money from your youthful looks: the more wrinkles you get, the less you actually care about them.

Oh, well, rest assured, it is never too late to take action. I got my second master's in a totally new field in my mid-forties, got an amazing job in that field (unfortunately due to luck and good connections - I would not have had much of a chance on the open market, I think), and am now entering a new career again.…

Yeah, I know. I mean, I think it's great if people are promoted for expressing their opinions, but I'm really bummed out and feeling pretty much like I've completely lost the thread of a conversation I thought we were all having together. I also note now, in retrospect, that there are almost never any articles written…

Funny when you watch it happening to someone else.

Yeah, you just don't know until you are there that many of the assumptions upon which you based your own identity turn out to be youth-based. It would be great if we could actually effect some kind of awareness and embrace across generations - I suspect that some of the limitations women face when networking (in…

I think I do understand better, and thanks for the explanation, even if it was prefaced by a shrug.

Luna: The reason papaylily said what you wanted to say but in a better fashion is that she didn't get defensive and accusatory.

And people wonder why so many older woman are freelance or self-employed.

What's news to me is the impression young women (or at least, a couple of the above commenters) have that older women have all kinds of power. Try getting hired as a woman over 40. Over 50? Too bad, sweetheart, shouldn't have had those kids and taken the time to try and raise them.

Here's the link if I can't figure out how to insert this.

Argh. Trying image but failing. Trying again.

These kids need more help than any haircut - whether carried out in a salon or courtroom - is going to give them. Jail time will only make them angrier, tough punishments will only make them tougher and angrier. Community service sounds like a good plan, but if it's just with another bunch of pissed off kids, probably…

Stop it. It's not worth it, it doesn't help, it's not true, and no one else thinks that about you. Every time you have a moment of self-loathing (I used to have entire "I hate UrbanAchiever days", sometimes several in a row), just shut that voice out like you would a crazy person on the bus who's ranting about how her…

I understand your perspective, and appreciate your response. Even though I am an old fart, I too am always looking for new inspiration of any age. Julie Zeilinger deeply impressed and delighted me when she started her teen feminist blog, which I found on my own a long time ago.

"Society as a whole considers women increasingly invisible and worthless they older they get."

I think we all learned something here.

Thank you for confirming my point.