I always hate going to places where I have to give them my age or date of birth. I know I don’t look my age and inevitably I get the “You look good for 47”. My thought is always, are forty something women supposed to look bad? Horrible? Ugly? Hag-like? Honestly, if it’s a professional place like a doctor’s office or insurance agency, etc., it should be inappropriate to make any comment about someone’s age or appearance that has nothing to do with the business at hand. I know they mean well but I feel uncomfortable and it’s a rather demeaning comment for women my age and older.

Do you think it’s inappropriate to make a comment like that? Do you have expectations of what forty plus people are suppose to look like? Or do you experience something similar? How do you feel about it?