Older women have to jump through hoops just to stay in the game

When women exhaust the natural trajectory of their sexual appeal, they reinvent themselves to stretch their longevity, sexual appeal and shelf lives. That is perfectly okay. We are not going to sit back and whine simply because society has conditioned us to accept that after forty we are used goods that should be begging for recycling like polymer plastics on a dumpsite.

This is the time we coin and adopt religious taglines and slogans like God's daughter, daughter of Zion while also quoting scriptures in our social media timelines. We join groups on social media that answer our new challenges. There is a plethora of dating sites camouflaging as advisory centres for women who have technically started up the plateau phase. They go by titles like 'Dating after 40', 'Mature Love', 'Sexy single' etcetera. The platforms are full of battle-hardened females who have at least a child or four to show for their years of reproductive engagements.