{"id":68673,"date":"2019-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2019\/04\/16\/give-it-up-go-bare-go-free-accept-your-shelf-life-as-given\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T11:45:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:45:08","slug":"give-it-up-go-bare-go-free-accept-your-shelf-life-as-given","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2019\/04\/16\/give-it-up-go-bare-go-free-accept-your-shelf-life-as-given\/","title":{"rendered":"Give it up. Go bare. Go free. Accept Your Shelf Life As Given (Guest Post)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Dr. Jim Allison’s headshot fills the back cover of a recent New Yorker with impressive gravitas, and it got me thinking. The ad for the MD Anderson Cancer Center touts Dr. Jim’s unswerving dedication to research: \u201cHis breakthrough in immmunotherapy earned him the 2018 Nobel Prize and is transforming cancer care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Big kudos to Dr. Jim. But, what about that grim, beady stare, those knifelike wrinkles, eye bags and untrammeled locks? And… that neck! \u00a0Would that photo fly as a full-page ad if Dr. Jim were a woman?I think not.<\/p>\n

While photographing some jewelry for my Etsy store<\/a> the other day I took a selfie by mistake.<\/p>\n

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Susan Dworski selfie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a BIG mistake, instantly regretted.<\/p>\n

Normally I dodge the camera like a road runner on Adderol and I quickly dumped the shot in the trash.<\/p>\n

But then, this morning, I began thinking that maybe I moved too fast and pulled it out.
\nI pondered Hillary Clinton\u2019s thick, tubular legs, forced into pantsuit exile by unfavorable public opinion when she ran for office. And the unrelenting criticism of Theresa May\u2019s stodgy sartorial efforts. Or the constant jabs at the appearance of a whole spectrum of accomplished women subjected to the eye of the social media cyclops.<\/p>\n

I tried to recall the last time a woman with wattles sans botox called the shots.<\/p>\n

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CC BY-SA 3.0 Government Press Office (Isreal)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBeing 70 isn\u2019t a sin,\u201d Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said. \u201cBut it isn\u2019t a joke, either.\u201d
\nI wondered: Isn\u2019t it time to stop fretting? How bad do I really<\/u> need to feel about my neck? I mean, does Dr. Jim dash back <\/em>to the bathroom mirror to check his mascara or add a dab of lip gloss before rushing off to his lab?<\/em><\/p>\n

He does not. Nor did Golda.<\/p>\n

But, they are made of sterner stuff.<\/p>\n

Jokester Nora Ephron rummaged through our vanitas bag in her 2006 book, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and run into a guy who once rejected you, you won\u2019t have to hide behind a stack of canned goods.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Librado Romero\/The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So what\u2019s up, neck-hater? I\u2019m asking myself. Give it up. Go bare. Go free.<\/strong> Don\u2019t hunker down behind the SpaghettiOs. Stand firm and fight. Resist! Accept your shelf life as given.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Honestly, I do. Most of the time.<\/p>\n

Until Chanel introduces a new age-defying-hyper-acerola-herbal-emulsified cream extracted from endangered,\u00a0free-ranging KaaKaa-Kon nuts organically-grown on the slopes of Iryian-Jaya by a recently rediscovered tribe of pygmies that absolutely guarantees to\u2026<\/p>\n

And once again, I\u2019m suckered in.<\/p>\n


\n\u2014Susan Dworski<\/em>
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