Masking My Age
I had an epiphany today about wearing a mask, when a young man was strangely attentive to me: The mask hides the biggest tipoff of my middle age - my jowls! How have I not realized this before today? How have I not seen a Facebook ad using this angle among the hundreds of anti-aging ads in my feed (you click on one lousy ad and the industry descends on you)? We should have been appealing to people's vanity all along about masking up. Have we not learned anything from Instagram? Since I hardly go out anymore, I was a little excited to put on makeup before running my errand. I even put on lip color and blush, completely forgetting there was no need since I'd be wearing a mask. I won't say the young man was flirting with me. I just felt more seen than usual. Enough so that I noticed it. Women of a certain age know what I mean. I realized this young man was talking to me like I'm a woman, not his mom. What was happening? I got back in my car and that's when I caught