Public Service Announcement

Don’t tell a woman she looks like a little kid.

Don’t tell her you thought she was 13, 16, or whatever grossly young age you thought she was.

Don’t tell her you thought her kids were her younger siblings.

Don’t tell her you think she’s your husband’s kid sister.

Don’t, when you see her out with her kids, ask her who she nannys for.

Don’t tell her you don’t believe those are really her children, and why won’t she just admit she’s the baby sitter.

A woman in her twenties doesn’t want to hear she looks too young to:

Have children
Be married
have gone to college
or whatever else you think she’s too young for.

Especially don’t make any comments about babies having babies or “I wonder what grade she was in when she got knocked up.” You just might get knocked out.

It gets old. If you think she looks young, she’s probably already heard it before.

If it’s me, she’s probably heard it twice before in just that weekend. So shut up. You’re just being rude. I don’t ask you how old you are or comment that your uncle must have been cro magun because you look like such a wrinkly old hag. I don’t crack dinosaur jokes, I don’t mention that you never get carded or that people think you’re my mother (who by the way, is younger looking and hotter than most people her age).

Unless a woman is obviously older, and would appreciate being told she looks 30 instead of 40, just leave it alone.

Public Service Announcement over.

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