This woman's response to anti-aging advice is an example we all can follow

Women are the target of constant unsolicited advice about aging. How to somehow prevent it when you're young, and how to hide it when you're older.

But not all unsolicited advice goes unquestioned. Annick Robinson, a woman living in Montreal, Quebec, shared a Facebook post detailing her experience with a presumptuous sales person who stopped her in an airport and attempted to sell her anti-aging skincare that she had little interest in.

The frank response that has thousands of people sharing her post: "I look fine now, and when I'm 45 I will look fine, and when I'm 50 I will look fine, because there is nothing wrong with a woman aging."

The post has since racked up more than 17,000 shares, and Robinson tells Mashable via phone that she's received hundreds of private messages from people thanking her for sharing a story that many women relate to.

"I think I had my lifetime quota of being made to feel like there’s something wrong with me," she said. "I just heard it all of a sudden, and I was looking at my face in the mirror and I was like 'There’s nothing wrong with my face.'"

"If everyone woman said that there’s nothing wrong with wrinkles, nothing wrong with my face, nothing wrong with aging, then there would never be another sales pitch like that."

In an update, she addressed the post's success, while pointing to the story's larger implications regarding marketing geared toward women:

"I have been reading some of the comments and wanted to clarify that this wasn't a post about natural beauty over those who wear make-up, its not about being insulted by a salesman. Its not even about the salesman, who I am sure is very good at his job and following a script. Its about a billion dollar industry that depends on women hating themselves" ...

"Let's start a movement peeps, let's end predatory marketing practices that sell self-loathing to women from cradle to grave. Women have more important things to do in 2016 than spend a single other minute worried about our wrinkles or the acceptability of our thighs.

Flip the script when you hear it. Every time. Until it loses its power. The next generation needs you to change the game."

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