Devorah Firestone
2 min readJan 28, 2024

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Well I think you're losing the fact that women are born with millions of eggs and is likely to use like 3 in the US. When I was 38 I saved my eggs using freezing and they are in very good shape and ready to use should I wish, and they've already been separated out for quality which is very high because I had nutritional assistance to make them top quality. Further, we're probably 3 years from being able to extend fertility further for women and allow them to have their standing eggs increase in quality inside the body. So there's lots of cool stuff in that area so I don't really think that those numbers really mean anything. One can easily have a child these days with 10 good eggs. I'm sitting on 60 that I got at 38 years old. Good health is definitely a helper as is good nutrition, but I'm afraid that your knowledge is not cutting edge.

Geriatric pregnancy starts at 36 not 32. Your info sounds quite old and honestly since you're NOT a doctor, telling a woman these things, who actually talk to doctors regularly with current and top shelf information, was pushing it in the know it all department.

As far as freezing only working 10% off the time, that's ONLY if one waits until there are already fertility and health problems before eggs are stored or used. If the woman is healthy, it's like I said, about 1 child per 10 eggs. Which some wrongly beleive is 10% of the time, but not really so. Many times more eggs are ready to go in a 10 egg batch but they are ruled out and still viable even make useable embryos that doesn't get used.

But to answer your other supposition, no they flat out said the word value and several times said how they basically didn't want anything to do with women over 35. They could not have been more playing about it. As a woman over 50 who has had the best opportunities in my life past 40 I just find that the technological advances in dating plus moving to a more active major city has given me more of the high quality types who I would want which doesn't necessarily include money but includes education and intelligence. But they were talking about this idea of high valueness and basically said that women didn't have that value past 35 years old. They're exact words value.

As far as being Feminist, I think for most of us there was no encouragement to be "like men" but to simply be the best we could and to keep in mind there was never a point in expecting men to be the sole income provider as that situation often failed and left women and children with nothing. It's just not realistic anymore and I shouldn't have to limit myself so someone lesser can feel adequate. Further, I shouldn't have to limit my life so I can have a marriage where as I mentioned, I'd be replaced between 35 and 45 anyway.

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Devorah Firestone
Devorah Firestone

Written by Devorah Firestone

Engineer for people with disabilities, actress, long-term activist, scholar. Loves cooking, Porsche and boats. #antiwar #inclusion #films #A11y

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