The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 96 of 254
Middle-aged women disappear
A second, related way in which the social self matters is that if people are treated very differently depending on how they appear, that can change how they perceive themselves. ‘I’ve been finding that recently I’ve been learning to be unconfident,’ Jñanamitra told me. ‘I’m now a middle-aged woman and middle-aged women in our society just disappear. So it took me really by surprise. I found myself being completely disregarded in situations. It just took my breath away really.’