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elixier t1_ja2dv9z wrote

Reply to comment by turdusphilomelos in Madonna 1980s by steroidamoeba

> If you try to fight ageing and look young people talk about you, but only to laugh and ridicule you.

If you do surgery and make yourself look deformed, then no, that's nonsense; plenty of women who aged normally are still considered to be attractive and didn't fade away as you say.

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damnumalone t1_ja2cy8y wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Madonna 1980s by steroidamoeba

Lol it must be hard work over there at pearl clutchingtons!

Seriously though you see more racy stuff than this on a standard day reading through an internet tabloid

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turdusphilomelos t1_ja28x1e wrote

Reply to comment by katycake in Madonna 1980s by steroidamoeba

I hate these kind of comments. For women who age it is an impossible "damned if you do, damned if you don't"- situation with ageing. If you age naturally and look old, people forget about you and you get completely ignored. If you try to fight ageing and look young people talk about you, but only to laugh and ridicule you.

Yeah, Betty White aged with grace, but she hade a very different media persona,playing off the "I know I am old, but I still say slightly cheeky and inappropriate things", where she could allow wrinkles to show.

In Scandinavia (I actually don't know how often the term is used in the rest of the world, maybe you all already know about it), we identify a series of "master suppression"-techniques, which are defined as strategies of social manipulation by which a dominant group maintains such a position in a (established or unexposed) hierarchy. One of the strategies is "double punishment", and one classical example of that is how womens attitudes to beaty treatments are treated : "ugly" women tend to be ridiculed, but women who try to look beautiful are seen as superficial and vain.

This "double punishment" strategy is used on ageing women all the time.

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