Society may not consider women over 50 as being hot tamales in the boudoir. It’s far more likely we’ll be depicted as rather doughy forms of lukewarm milquetoast. But Suzanne Braun Levine has just published her latest book, How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood and her findings might surprise [...]
Women over 50 are powerful beings. We’ve grown into ourselves as mature women who’ve learned a thing or two, exude more self-confidence, and care less about what people think. We’re no longer as steeped in the business of pleasing others and more into self-expression, achievement, and leaving our own mark upon the world. However, as [...]
As a woman over 50, I’m not a big believer in the “invisibility factor.” We boomers are just too out there and too plentiful to be overlooked. Nevertheless, there are places where youthful faces far outnumber ours. One example is, of course, the TV news. It seems the suits at both the national and local [...]
As a woman who’s well over 50, I was drawn in by the title of the article, “No Country for Old Women: Demi Moore and Our Fear of Aging.” Written from a sympathetic point of view, the author described how the youth obsessed culture of our country has pushed Demi and other aging actresses into [...]
Women over 50 have learned to roll with the punches. We’ve suffered our share of slights as society attempts to marginalize us, make us feel irrelevant, and acts like our age alone is something that diminishes out worth. We hear the condescension couched in terms such as “sweetie,” “dear,” and “young lady,” and we recognize [...]
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