Saturday, May 28, 2011  Women Turning Forty: Then and Now
Please know that I'm truly not trying to brag when I say this,
but I'll be turning 40 early next year, and I still think I look
good. I protect my skin from the sun, I get plenty of sleep,
exercise, eat the right foods, and the last guy who asked me out
- just last week - was 24 years old. So I think it's OK to say
that I must be doing something right.  The reason I'm bringing
this up is because it wasn't so long ago that a woman turning 40
was pretty much all but turned out to pasture - and if she were
still single at that ripe old age than she was truly an old maid
and her chances of ever getting married were next to nil. Women
over this age were also, it seems, considered unsexy. Once you
turned the big 4-0, you might as well stock up on granny
underpants because you sure weren't a demographic that
Frederick's of Hollywood wanted to reach.   Case in point: the
three ads I've dug up to show here. Maybe these are really
isolated examples, but they're