Pitch

For my midterm I wanted to do this project but since I did not have sufficient time, I want to pitch this for my group project instead. I want to interview women over 40 years old who are single and living their best lives. I was inspired to make this video by my mentor of over a decade, Isabel Pradas, who is 42 and thriving. In many contexts young women in their 20s and 30s spend a great deal of time worrying about finding a partner. In contrast, most men of comprable age don’t spend much time worrying about partnership at all. This imbalance means that while young women are spending their valuable energy and effort worrying and dating unavailable men in hopes of settling down, the heterosexual men who they hope want the same things are spending their time on their interests, travel and work. In an effort to reduce the anxiety that many heterosexual young women feel about ending up single, I thought it would be nice to show them examples of women 40 and over who are single, happy, fulfilled and thriving. I think it would be great to do this as a group project and talk to women from diverse cultural backgrounds. I want to interview women who are single and happy, including those who are actively looking for partnership and those who never desired a partner. It is time women stop spending their young years worried about partnership, and spend more time investing in themselves and doing what they want instead.