Someday, “desirability” as a label will reach its shelf life, and a woman’s “prime” will expire. Except, that isn’t true: older women go under the radar, are overlooked, and are expected to slip into obscurity. "Dear, is that You?" reexamines the female ideal, and what it means to come into yourself as a person through the lens of an aging performer. Aging is a privilege, not an insult; a woman’s prime is whenever she feels most herself. Oftentimes this happens when a life is well lived, experience gained, and the expectations of society shed. A woman past her youth is not past her prime, rather, because she is ignored she is set free from expectation and can then be her true self.
