It’s time for women to stop relying on others to validate our beauty
“I’m not brave for letting my hair go white,” begins Joan Walsh’s essay in The Nation, where the former on-air political analyst at CNN and MSNBC is the national affairs correspondent.
Like most of us during the pandemic lockdowns, she couldn’t access her stylist and colorist — what I call…
If women have money, they also have power — that scares men and women
When people ask me how I’m doing during the pandemic, my answer has been consistent — even though I took a major financial hit on my Airbnb business, which I need to get, by, I’ve been healthy, I have a roof over my head, I’m still working, the same for…
Charlotte Gainsbourg’s admiration for her mother, 1960s icon Jane Birkin, may be misguided
Actor and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg turned 50 this summer, and it has not been a happy thing for her. In a recent interview, she says:
“I didn’t like it [turning 50]. I was very stressed and nervous about my forties. But the thing is, I’d just had a baby, so…
The way society talks about aging is not only ableist, classist and shaming, but it’s all too often sexist
You’re a woman approaching your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond. How do you see yourself aging?
If you’re Julianne Moore, it’s not “aging gracefully.”
That’s an incredibly sexist term, the 60-year-old actor says in a recent interview because it’s mostly directed at women. …
For independent women who have rich lives on their own, it really comes down to very little
A few months ago, a girlfriend and I were discussing men when I asked her, “What do we want a man for?”
If we asked ourselves that same question when we were in our 20s or 30s, our answer would be clear — as hetero single women, we wanted a…
Netflix’s ‘On the Verge’ is a start, but where are the shows about women who are not wives and mothers?
Netflix’s series On the Verge, may be a newly minted hit, but when the show’s actor, writer and director Julie Delpy was shopping around a script about four women in their 40s and 50s in 2013, few people were willing to back a show focusing on middle-aged women. That’s the…
Isn’t aging just a process of becoming new versions of ourselves?
“Hey, folks who are over 40, let me ask you something … is it over at 40?”
“Is 50 too late to go back to school and get a new career because I am fed the fuck up with this one.”
“Just want someone to tell me it’s okay to…
It could be a woman’s superpower to get what she wants
In a brilliant essay in The New York Times, “America Made Me a Feminist,” former supermodel Paulina Porizkova wrote about how women are treated around the world, or at least the countries she’s lived in, and in America.
Moving to France after living in Sweden, where there’s more equality, she…
Does it even add anything to the conversation?
If you’re a woman, it’s most likely seared in your memory. Maybe it came from a barista or cashier a wait person or a flight attendant or a telemarketer. It’s the moment you’re called “ma’am.”
It comes unexpectedly, when you may or may not be at a transitional life stage…
What does ‘dressing your age’ even look like?
A few years ago, a middle-aged friend was clothes shopping with her millennial daughter and they gravitated to a women’s store known for its shapeless outfits in muted earth tones— Eileen Fisher.
“Mom,” her daughter said, “you might as well wear a T-shirt that says, ‘I give up.’”
Her daughter…
