“Women Over 50 Are Annoying”
Last night while watching a popular general news show on television, the panel of the 30-something hosts were talking about a segment that had just finished. One of the presenters turned to the other and said, “well, you think that women over 50 are annoying!” He said it in an off hand remark and to […]
The Cloak of Invisibility
I realised that the cloak of invisibility is not fiction. It is in fact, over women of a certain age. Yesterday I went through all my YouTube beauty or fashion channel subscriptions and unsubscribed from those where the women espoused natural beauty (pretty much all of them) and at the same time, have had facial […]
There’s No One Over 35
This evening while watching The Project, the panel was talking about the stage show Mary Poppins to a guest who was in the show. “Who’s she?” I asked Andrew. He looked up from his phone then started talking about Mrs Poppins and how she was an awful character in the book. “Don’t tell me she’s […]
International Women’s Day
Today I learned yet another company putting profit above social good. I thought I’d share something about the day on Yammer this morning at our company given that we hadn’t prepared anything formally (maybe this is something to take note of for next year if I’m still around and organise an event although it shouldn’t […]
Women, Be Like Rita
Since subscribing to Netflix this year (yes, I’m a bit late to the game because I had tons of other content I was accessing – and well, basically, life….until COVID hit), I have been watching some wonderful shows. Sure, there are some crap ones on Netflix (oh boy, are there some shit shows on Netflix) […]