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AARP The Girlfriend
Nice to see a publication for women 40+ since there kind of aren’t any, but does it have to an offshoot of AARP? The R does stand for Retired, if you forget, and that’s at least two decades away for me–and maybe you too.
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I Called It…
…millennials are already trying to make menopause cool.
“Is this the new normcore?” Haley asked.
“Maybe,” I said. “I’m trying to think of how to describe it in that same vein. Middle-aged…menopausal…Menocore??”
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List: Signs You’ve Transitioned From a Manic Pixie Dream Girl to an Odd Middle-Aged Woman
List: Signs You’ve Transitioned From a Manic Pixie Dream Girl to an Odd Middle-Aged Woman
Funny, but I hate when people joke that eating shitloads of sugar will give you Type 2 diabetes. That’s totally not true.
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96% of 40-plus women don’t feel middle-aged
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Ready to declare Jane Adams as my hair hero. I can’t recall ever seeing a female character on TV who had gray hair and was not a senior citizen.
Yeah, I’m posting about Twin Peaks again.
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Never forget when the Buzzcocks were used in an AARP commercial. In fact, we’re all ten years older than when it aired.
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I thought it would be interesting to have a woman in her mid-forties being portrayed as desirable and desired, because the world is full of these women and yet we so rarely see them on television.
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In my Northwest indie-ness isolation, there were a lot of ‘90s bands I was aware of but didn’t listen to. I mean, you had to go out and buy records vs. streaming a few hits online. Helium fell into that category.
Last week, though, I spotted more than a few Mary Timony snapshots while scrolling through my middle-aged social media since she’s on tour playing Helium songs. She did not look young. She didn’t look old either. She did look awesome with a guitar, in her t-shirt and choker.
Coincidentally or maybe not, last week I also read about the gross food aesthetic in pop culture on The Hairpin and one example was a video by Ex Hex, helmed by Mary Timony, I can’t remember the last time I saw a woman in her mid-40s in a music video just like it was a normal thing and not some ‘80s-era Tina Turner comeback or Cher continuing to chug along.
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IN HOLLYWOOD, WOMEN OVER 40 ARE RARELY THE HEROINE — EVEN OF THEIR OWN STORIES
A few days after bingeing on The Keepers, I found myself recalling the doc with a smile thanks to the graceful aging of many of its protagonists. I’ve spent the better part of the past decade worrying about getting older. Pop culture — which I’m steeped in as a critic — just might be the worst lens through which to consider female aging, and the films and TV shows on the subject that stick out in my mind foretell nothing good.