I have an article that’s been at the top of Google for many years. It’s called “Why I don’t date anymore.’ An amazing number of people Google that.

That said, I am 70, and I was never taught that I couldn’t say or do what I liked. My late mother — born 1925 — raced stock cars, owned her own business, told people where to get off, and was an extremely powerful women. She scared the he’ll out of men.

It never ever occurred to me that I had to hold my skirt down if the wind blew. I couldn’t care less. And if a man talks down to me, I simply tell them. In fact, I correct them. Then, again, I don’t care if it costs me my job or it means I am single for the rest of my life.

One of the things I observed in the United States was the desperation of older women dating men. They Groveland. I also got told that I don’t know how to treat successful men, and that other women do.

My daughter tells me I was born into a shifty generation, and that men my age are shifty. I agree. But I also know that it depends on the country. Men my age in Western Europe and the UK tend to see women as far more equal than they do in the States.