“We don’t sell the idea of being middle-aged to young women, and there’s such fear in young people about getting older,” she says. Following a conversation with her brother, Moran took to Twitter, and asked the men of social media to tell her the downsides of being male. “For me, the most feminist thing you can do is tell the truth about your life as a woman, so if people are scared of looking un-feminist because of Botox, that’s a little feminist knot we need to untie. “Oh yes,” she says casually, “and the first couple of times, it feels like the end of your life. If young women gave as few f**** as older women, we’d take over the world in 20 minutes flat.”More Than A Woman by Caitlin Moran is published by Ebury.

Source: Irish Examiner September 10, 2020 12:25 UTC