Comments on: The Beauty of Women over 50 http://www.midlifecrisisqueen.com/2008/11/26/the-beauty-of-women-over-50/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:28:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: midlifecrisisqueen http://www.midlifecrisisqueen.com/2008/11/26/the-beauty-of-women-over-50/comment-page-1/#comment-383 midlifecrisisqueen Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:44:19 +0000 http://midlifecrisisqueen.wordpress.com/?p=2091#comment-383 Brigit: Thanks for weighing in on the women and beauty issue...so glad to hear from our friends in Australia! Laura Lee aka The Queen Brigit:

Thanks for weighing in on the women and beauty issue…so glad to hear from our friends in Australia!

Laura Lee aka The Queen

]]> By: Brigit http://www.midlifecrisisqueen.com/2008/11/26/the-beauty-of-women-over-50/comment-page-1/#comment-382 Brigit Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:43:02 +0000 http://midlifecrisisqueen.wordpress.com/?p=2091#comment-382 Hi Laura Lee, I think us 'oldies' are standing up and refusing to be put into the "old "catagory. I don't think our mothers or previous generations of women did. We are much more 'present' in exposure to how the world turns, than we have ever been. We are claiming acknowledgement, and at least in Australia we are begining to get it. I don't think I know a woman my age, not working. We have to and we want to. We are contributing income earners to our families. We have our own money to spend, and we have become educated enough to take care of our mnds and bodies more than previous generations. We are more than garden and crochet savvy. We are internet savvy, giving us the availabilty to connect, learn, have a say and have an impact. With all this comes media exposure. Advertising in particular is there to sell product. By representing middle aged women, in ads. as sexy gorgeous things, they are doing exactly what they are doing and have done to teenages and young women with their use of stunning very, very thin models. Advertising does the same thing with car advertising and men. The man is a hunk, the car is sexy and attracts women or big and powerful. Whoops, this post is beginning to develop a life of its own. I really only wanted to say that with the knowledge, and changes our generation of women are living through, we are seeing ourselves more realistically, so more positively than we have done before. Got to be good, I think. Hi Laura Lee,

I think us ‘oldies’ are standing up and refusing to be put into the “old “catagory. I don’t think our mothers or previous generations of women did. We are much more ‘present’ in exposure to how the world turns, than we have ever been. We are claiming acknowledgement, and at least in Australia we are begining to get it.

I don’t think I know a woman my age, not working. We have to and we want to. We are contributing income earners to our families. We have our own money to spend, and we have become educated enough to take care of our mnds and bodies more than previous generations. We are more than garden and crochet savvy. We are internet savvy, giving us the availabilty to connect, learn, have a say and have an impact.

With all this comes media exposure. Advertising in particular is there to sell product. By representing middle aged women, in ads. as sexy gorgeous things, they are doing exactly what they are doing and have done to teenages and young women with their use of stunning very, very thin models. Advertising does the same thing with car advertising and men. The man is a hunk, the car is sexy and attracts women or big and powerful.

Whoops, this post is beginning to develop a life of its own. I really only wanted to say that with the knowledge, and changes our generation of women are living through, we are seeing ourselves more realistically, so more positively than we have done before. Got to be good, I think.

]]> By: Ned James http://www.midlifecrisisqueen.com/2008/11/26/the-beauty-of-women-over-50/comment-page-1/#comment-384 Ned James Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:07:52 +0000 http://midlifecrisisqueen.wordpress.com/?p=2091#comment-384 Dove has been a forerunner of realistic advertising...I hope more companies follow their lead. It's also great news to hear that they've been successful as a result so other companies might start advertising the same way. <a href="http://www.breastauginfo.com" rel="nofollow">Ned James</a> Dove has been a forerunner of realistic advertising…I hope more companies follow their lead. It’s also great news to hear that they’ve been successful as a result so other companies might start advertising the same way.

Ned James

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