WHO Should Contribute?

Not all women, just those who accept the fact of aging and intend to do it the best way we know how which does NOT include being quiet or turn­ing invis­i­ble as many of our moth­ers & grand­moth­ers had to do.

Entry age is 45 years old. Why 45? Most of us get our first clear view of the next Big O birth­day — 50 — which even if it’s the new 40, is still mid­dle age.

WHAT to do?

If the WHO fits you, I wel­come you to share a 3 minute YouTube video that can be focused on aging, or not. See Topics/Categories in the right hand col­umn for sug­ges­tions. It’s your 3 min­utes, you decide how to deliver it here. Maybe it’s a poem, or stand-up rou­tine, or rant, busi­ness pitch, or a recipe or…you decide. Also include a 150 word BIO & include your con­tact information/URL or not. Again, it’s up to you.

WHERE do con­trib­u­tors come from?

All over the coun­try and from all walks of life. Our inten­tion is to viral Me Quiet? You’re Kid­ding, Right? around the web; a clar­ion call to a cul­ture that expects us to be quiet and fade from view.

WHY con­tribute?

I bet most agree our moth­ers were ‘good-er’ girls than we are now. At a cer­tain age, they receded from the main­stream. If we fol­low their lead, we rein­force stereo­types of women los­ing value as we age. If we don’t make our voices heard, they’ll con­tinue to assume that we are our moth­ers’ daugh­ters, good girls who fade from view after a cer­tain age. I wish I could fade from view occa­sion­ally; but most of us can’t and most wouldn’t, even if we could.

We have come a long way from how our moms lived out their 2^nd and 3^rd acts. Hillary Clinton’s cam­paign was ‘wo-manned’ by 18 mil­lion women, a huge % Gen-X & Baby Boomer age. The Cougar Move­ment, once the butt of jokes, has grown big enough to have its own TV show.

Me Quiet? You’re Kid­ding, Right? is my con­tri­bu­tion. I’m not the only woman ‘put off’ by our culture’s ‘One minute you’re in, the next minute you’re out! atti­tude toward women aging. Our hub­bies and lovers aren’t kicked out of the Main­stream tribe. They get respect for their accom­plish­ments. Their sil­ver strands dis­tin­guish. And if they have money, they get a whole lot more.

That’s all the con­trib­u­tors of Me Quiet? You’re Kid­ding, Right? want, a lit­tle respect, please. And yes, some of us want more but at the very least,  a lit­tle R-E-S-P-E-C-T!

Between the Gen Xers and Baby Boomers, our demo­graphic num­bers 100 mil­lion & over half are women. We work hard and when we have time, we play hard, too. We come in all shapes, sizes, col­ors, per­sua­sions, cul­tures and religions.

If you are one of us, I wel­come you into our Me Quiet? You’re Kid­ding, Right? tribe. Hang out here. Con­tribute your art, your pas­sion, your funny jokes, your rants, your recipes, your wis­dom, your music, your heartaches, what­ever you want to share, you’ve got 3 min­utes here. As long as your con­tri­bu­tion doesn’t per­son­ally attack, your 3 minute video is welcome.

I want you to have fun cre­at­ing a mes­sage you want heard. I want you to also con­sider this: your 3 minute video con­tri­bu­tion may help insure that when our daugh­ters, grand­daugh­ters, nieces, stu­dents, et al, reach the ages we are now, they won’t need to log on to a video blog that asks Me Quiet? You’re Kid­ding, Right?