In Celebration of Mature Women!

The following is my response to a nasty comment left by someone who calls him/herself "Ragsdalevongrump" about a YouTube video featuring one of the stars of the Indianapolis production of Menopause the Musical, inviting everyone to come out and see the show. Ragsdalevongrump's exact words were: "why would we want to watch this dog for 2 hours??"

Ah the arrogance of youth. I can't let this one slide by.

Hey Ragsdalevongrump:

I'm assuming you're young, and a male. If so, then I've got some news for you: assuming you live to middle age, one day you will no longer attract the "hot" 20-something girls, and if you mature and if you're still single, hopefully you will be attracted to women your own age who, even though they have some wrinkles, gray hairs and a body that's no longer as tight as it once was, they will be self-assured, confident, and secure in the knowledge that their beauty is on the inside, where it counts. And that their life experiences have made them the strong, beautiful women they are.

If you're female, may I remind you that assuming you live to middle age, one day you will no longer attract the "hot" 20-something guys. YOU will go through menopause too, and experience what women have been going through since Eve had her first hot flash.

Here's a newsflash for you: we mature "dogs" still enjoy life, sex, romance, rock and roll, dancing, laughter and love. Life does not stop at middle age or even old age.

Three other women and I are currently starring in Menopause The Musical in my hometown. It's a wonderful hilarious show about the natural passage in every woman's life, celebrating women "of a certain age", who are about to experience, are experiencing, or have made it through menopause. Before you so blithely and callously dismiss this "dog", grow up and check out the show if you get the chance to see it. It will make you laugh and might, just might, raise your consciousness and make you realize that your mother, grandmother, aunt(s), sister(s), niece(s), future girlfriends or wife have been through it or will go through it.

For the record, the show is only 1½ hour. And I'd like to see YOU up there on that stage singing, dancing, and reciting memorized lines for an hour and a half, in heels, with no break or intermission. For 10 performances. And keep in mind the youngest of us is 49. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Or stick it where the sun don't shine.