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Taking Back Girls #4

Oh Internet, I am really starting to be concerned with your language comprehension skills. Very luckily for you, I am a trained professional.

Please join me on my odyssey. A couple of days back I was listening to Bill Gifford interviewed on Fresh Air promoting this book:

He seemed to be asserting that the bio-identical hormone replacement therapy touted by Suzanne Somers and others has potential for long term harm. I admit I only caught half the program while eating lunch; I did a little research and realized that I was unable to sustain my attention to the subject of menopause (I'm kind of an in-the-moment type person, although that moment is certainly fast approaching).

What did manage to engage me was this idea of a judgement being placed on how we grow old: fighting tooth and nail, or as is commonly dubbed in the media "with grace."

I googled Suzanne Somers.

She made menopause seem riveting.

I then started thinking about women celebrities who make getting older seem badass. The most obvious came to mind.

As I looked at websites about these women, one phrase kept popping up, "aging gracefully."

So I decided to invent a really fun new game. It's called "Would that be said about a man?" Who else to ask but Google? My search: "Celebrity men aging gracefully."

Here is a breakdown of the first page:

1. Three sites with general lists of "gracefully aging celebrities" with the following percentages of actual MEN:

26%

20%

38%.

2. Three sites that just featured women.

3. Two sites about this guy.

So the Internet is once again REMARKABLY CONFUSED.

Guess aging gracefully is something else I need to put on my to-do list. Along with figuring out the whole menopause thing.

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