Which now makes me middle-aged. And if there is one thing that I have learned this year, it’s that middle-aged feminists are by turns useless, obstinate, dried-up, bitter, obstructive to “real” feminist issues like reproductive rights because their uteri have surely all fallen out, unfuckable, unhip, unimportant, spiteful, racist, deluded, not people to be associated with, not people who are needed to be members of organizations chasing shiny new members, dangerous, dry-pussied, possessed of a martyr complex, not needed, not worth listening to, and, most importantly, In The Way.
Yet, despite the insignificance and marginality of middle-aged feminists, there sure are a lot of people obsessed with their (our?) plans for November.
Dunno about November, but tonight I’ve got plans to take a class so I can learn to make seitan.
Happy Birthday, Zuzu! Good luck with the cooking class!
Welcome to your forties. Overall I have to say it’s my favorite decade so far.
actually, it sucks significantly less than the thirties, which beat the crap out of the twenties, to which the teens cannot be compared.
Just saying.
Congrats!
You’ll always be fuckable to me, Zooz. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday!
Thanks, all!
Now that the dread thing is out of the way (which essentially consumed the whole year I was 39), I think it will suck less than my 30s.
Well, considering Bush was president during most of my 30s…
Could it be…mmmm….SEITAN???!!??
Sorry. The shot was there, I hadda take it. Happy birthday, zuzu!
Happy birthday from a lurker who turned 30 today! I don’t like this new-decade business. Just when you get used to thinking of yourself as a person in your whatevers, you have to start thinking of yourself as a person in your whatever-plus-tens.
(I hope that made sense. I’m also on cold medication right now.)
Sorry, I’m late to the party. I was out of town on a much needed vacay in the woods.
Happy Birthday!!
And I agree with most of the above commentors, so far my 40s have been really good (I’m 42 and a half).
HAPPY BDAY! I know I owe you a phone call. Congrats on making the big 40! And YES AND LOL to your preamble to this all…..
We who are late to the party salute you as well. Happy birthday!
Despite all that you think you might be (and those were some great adjectives, I have to say), I’m a mere 21 and I find your column touching, relevant, wet-pussied, and absolutely hilarious. Add delicious to that. Cheers to a new decade and a new year!
Stop by my blog, I gave you an award: http://krazykatknits.blogspot.com/2008/09/wow.html
I’m 40 too… welcome to the club. Guess what — where we lack in perceived hipness, we make up in being able to say fuck you to more people more often with fewer regrets.
Hey congrats. Youth is all I’ve got going for me, which makes me pathetic.
Anyway, middle aged is now I think 55.