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.
turdusphilomelos t1_ja28x1e wrote
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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.