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Et Tu, Sister? How We Can Unintentionally Make Other Women Feel Invisible

We're told to expect men to no longer "see" us at this age, but it's more complicated than that. Here we explore the strange dynamics of women making their own kind feel invisible.

Editor's Note: NextTribe is three years old. Such a baby! But already an overachiever! In mid-February 2017, Jeannie Ralston and Lori Seekatz launched NextTribe with 12 articles, good intentions, and an almost complete lack of awareness of how tough the road ahead would be. But here we are: older (ain't we all?), wiser (about some things), and yes, stronger than ever (woohoo!). To celebrate, we're running three of the original articles published on NextTribe. All of them are by Jeannie Ralston, because frankly she wrote almost all those original articles. We have since published more than 900 articles and 75-plus writers—from bestselling authors to first-timers. Thanks to all of you who have helped us get this far.

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I knew the male gaze would some day fade away, as surely as the headiness of a new shoe purchase does. So I wasn’t overly bothered when, in my early 50s, men’s eyes began to go right through me like X-ray vision. Much more disconcerting was becoming invisible to other women. Now that was unexpected.

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