More details about what "Emerald Origins" refers to in the video description.
Above, the profile avatar has my likeness and is close to my actual age. I have creations where I look--younger. Not young enough to make people ask my birthdate with an "oh, s***" look on their face. But young in that way current culture still hasn't accepted that we age. And when we age, it should be just as "authentic", just as "transparent" as everything else in our human lives is necessary to be.
A lot of graphics and images have this problem. Always, there is some excuse, flimsy at best, as to why the entire planet prefers grown a**ed women still look as close to the age of high school graduation as possible. Never mind that this is just not naturally possible.
I wonder which way we're actually supposed to go with this one. Let someone else coach and counsel and pat you on the head with assurances about "solidarity" and not buying into defining our worth by hiding our biological age or...
Risking being accused of vanity or self-absorption or worse if we say we do indeed look our age as women who finished high school a generation ago. And/or by saying, "Hey, I'm still not bad to look at."
