“Sexist comments are as passe today as T-Rex”

Mary Wakefield Buxton

URBANNA — Just as I think that I have written my last opinion, someone like Don Lemon of CNN comes along and tells us a 51-year-old woman candidate just declared for president is … “past her prime.”

Here we have Grandpa in the White House stumbling through his daily messages to us and Don Lemon calls the 51-year- old Nikki Haley, the ex-governor of South Carolina and United States ambassador to the United Nations, past her prime.

Well, I guess you could say I’ve heard everything. But poor me. If Nikki Haley is past her prime at 51, I must at 81 have not just one foot in the grave, but my entire body!

Mary Wakefield Buxton
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“One Woman’s Opinion” served as a special feature of the Southside Sentinel for four decades, written by the late Urbanna resident Mary Wakefield Buxton. Traditionally a humorist, Mary has written a column on all subjects and sometimes in very serious vein. Along with writing a column for the Sentinel, she is also author of 15 books about life and love in Tidewater, Virginia.