I can still remember being a child in the 1970s and the police coming to our house after we were robbed. They asked my mother her age for the report and she wouldn't tell them. I thought it was strange to care about that, but then I was still too young to know the agism that women face.
I'm about to turn 58 and am pretty open about it, but then again, I don't have a lot of areas of my life where I might face any repercussions for it, so I get why sometimes people lie. Still, it's great to start challenging the notion that we need to.
Have you ever seen Amy Schumer's bit (with Julia Louis Dreyfus and Tina Fey) called Last F***able day? It's great!