Blog Posts - October 2014

October 31, 2014 By Megan Kearns
In a 2012 interview on NPR’s All Things Considered, director and actor Sarah Polley spoke about her film, Take This Waltz. She discussed how we need more female directors and the unique perspective they can bestow on female characters. She also spoke eloquently on the sexist portrayal of women’s bodies on-screen: Read more...

How The Golden Girls Shaped My Feminism

How <i>The Golden Girls</i> Shaped My Feminism

October 27, 2014 By Megan Kearns
A child of the '80s, I grew up watching TV shows like Murder She Wrote and Love Boat. Living with my grandparents for six years clearly influenced my television viewing habits! My favorite series of my childhood—and still one of my absolute favorites as an adult—was The Golden Girls. Read more...

How Old Is Too Old?

October 23, 2014 By Flora Davis
I am a fan of short, online videos—the kind you see on YouTube. I often follow the links that come flooding in with my emails. I’m willing to give them a try, trusting the judgment of people in my chain of friends (and friends of friends) who have liked them well enough to pass them along. Read more...

How Problematic Is This Atlantic Cover Story? Let Me Count the Ways

How Problematic Is This <em>Atlantic</em> Cover Story? Let Me Count the Ways

October 20, 2014 By Ashton Applewhite
The cover of the October 2014 Atlantic magazine features a white-bearded skateboarder careening crazily above the title of an article that encapsulates American ambivalence about longevity, Ezekiel Emanuel’s “Why I Hope to Die at 75.” I wrote a letter to the editor, calling out the unacknowledged ageism that saturates the issue. Read more...

Time to Rethink Ink

October 17, 2014 By Pepper Evans
Tattoos—love them or hate them? If you are like me, you shudder at the thought. The mere word can conjure movie images of bikers, sailors, trollops—not to mention the creepy, all-night tattoo parlors—and brings to mind a long-held belief that tattoos are for someone who fits a mold to which I do not aspire. Read more...

Aging Actuarially

October 13, 2014 By Bob Bostock
It’s rare, these days, that any piece of mail carries unexpected news. Between phone calls, Facebook, Instagram, Tweets, texts and Snapchat, we learn of most events, both happy and sad, almost in real time. Read more...

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