“I tend to hold a lot of water weight and that happens very normally, and then when I’m off it, I tend to kind of lose weight,” she explained in reference to the medication she takes for the autoimmune disease lupus. “A world that refuses to celebrate women past the age of 45 and feels the need to punish her if she continues to be strong-willed, hard-working, and adventurous.” Selena Gomez was forced to go live on TikTok and publicly address the relentless chatter about her weight fluctuations. “Once again I am caught in the glare of ageism and misogyny that permeates the world we live in,” she wrote on Instagram. Following Madonna's moving speech about the power of rebellion at the 2023 Grammys, Twitter flooded with sexist commentary about her face and plastic surgery procedures. The issue is that age sadly does define women personally and professionally. It’s a system in which nearly everyone is culpable, consciously or unconsciously. Misogyny isn’t just a psychological issue that lurks in the hearts and minds of bad men. When asked to elaborate, Lemon simply told his puzzled female cohosts to “google it.” “I’m just saying Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians…need to be in their prime when they serve, because she would not be in her prime according to Google or whatever it is,” he added clunkily before allowing the moment to pass. A woman is considered to be in their prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.” Prime for what exactly? Childbearing? Political discourse? An extended stay at a luxury villa in the Maldives? The world may never know.
“She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime,” Lemon said. Take, for instance, CNN anchor Don Lemon's February on-air fiasco during a conversation about 51-year-old Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and her controversial suggestion that older politicians like President Biden should be required to undergo mental competency testing, Lemon shared an unsolicited, not-at-all-accurate “theory” on how women age.
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