‘Didn’t Ask, Don’t Care’: Shire Woman Officially Enters Perimenopause Era, Declares It a Liberation Movement

Sandy Shores | Editor-in-Chief | Sutherland Shire Gazette

17 November 2025

MIRANDA - Local woman and self-declared “era pioneer” Karen Douglas, 45, has officially entered what friends are calling her perimenopause era-a season marked by hormonal turbulence, forensic honesty, and a growing tendency to append quiet, devastating commentary to the end of her sentences.

Witnesses say Douglas now delivers polite conversation followed by precision-engineered add-ons such as “smart choice, champ,” “interesting approach,” or the softly lethal “bold move.”

 “She says it so gently that you don’t realise she’s offended you until you’re halfway back to your car,” said one colleague.

Family members report the shift began when she stopped pretending to enjoy Pilates and started carrying her wine glass like a personal protection device. “It’s not anger,” said her husband. “It’s clarity… with a side of ambient warmth.”

Experts at the Sutherland Institute of Hormonal Economics describe the shift as “a long overdue market correction in the emotional labour sector.”

“After twenty years of managing everyone else’s feelings,” said one researcher, “women are finally experiencing the deregulation of politeness.” 

Friends say Douglas has become a force of nature. “She’s basically Google Translate for nonsense-she converts it into honesty.”

Douglas says she feels “free, sharp, and mildly dangerous,” and admits her internal filter is “on indefinite sabbatical.”

 “I used to hold my tongue,” she told The Shire Gazette. “Now I let it stretch its legs.”

Advice for others entering the era? “Get comfy, get honest, and if anyone tells you to calm down-remind them you’ve evolved beyond that emotion entirely.”