Today, at 65, I still appreciate the 20-year-old for her youthful looks, vigor, and (occasional) sweet innocence. Any woman over 30 was ancient, over 40 invisible.
All women.When I was 20, I had eyes only for girls my age. One of the perks of dufferdom is an increased capacity to appreciate people. You know, he's just as cantankerous on the phone as he is on the air.įrank Kaiser's original piece read as follows: I wrote him and made a joke about it and he called me. That's sort of the nature of the Internet. I actually wrote it in 2000 but about a year ago, I started seeing it come back to me in e-mails attributed to Andy Rooney. The true author, Frank Kaiser, had this to say about the misattribution: I was pleased by how many people wrote to say they didn't believe I wrote it. In October 2005, in his weekly 60 Minutes commentary, Andy Rooney said this of the piece:Ī saccharine collection of comments called ‘ANDY ROONEY ON OLDER WOMEN’ has had wide circulation. He's been the object of this kind of hoax before, and another, he said, had just crossed his desk.I asked him if he shared the author's affection for older women, and he said, "Not particularly." "It just bugs me that anybody would put my name on something I didn't write," said Rooney from his New York office. This item was not penned by Andy Rooney (who passed away at the age of 92 on 4 November 2011) it is an embellished version of a piece created by Frank Kaiser, a columnist whose Suddenly Senior articles are published on his web site and syndicated to a variety of newspapers across the U.S.īaltimore Sun writer Susan Reimer contacted Andy Rooney, who told her: The piece quoted above, an essay "In Praise of Older Women," is another portion of his "hasn't said" fame. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman of 40+, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress. Unfortunately, it's not always reciprocal.
Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. You don't ever have to wonder where you stand with her. They'll tell you right off you are a jerk if you are acting like one. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over 40 is far sexier than her younger counterpart. This is not true of younger women or drag queens. They always know.Ī woman over 40 looks good wearing bright red lipstick. You never have to confess your sins to a woman over 40. They know what it's like to be unappreciated. Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. Of course, if you deserve it, they won't hesitate to shoot you if they think they can get away with it. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Few women past the age of 40 give a damn what you might think about her or what she's doing. And it's usually something more interesting.Ī woman over 40 knows herself well enough to be assured in who she is, what she is, what she wants and from whom.
If a woman over 40 doesn't want to watch the game, she doesn't sit around whining about it. Here are just a few reasons why:Ī woman over 40 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?" She doesn't care what you think. Andy Rooney, the curmudgeonly commentator who for many years closed every Sunday broadcast of television's 60 Minutes news magazine with a (typically sardonic) essay about some aspect of everyday life, was - thanks to the Internet - as well known for what he hasn't said as he is for what he really had said:Īs I grow in age, I value women who are over 40 most of all.
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