My Year of Prolonged Suffering and Decrepitude
Binchtopia · Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb
February 28, 20241h 21mExplicit
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Show Notes
The girlies confront one of humanity's oldest anxieties — our fear of aging. From Cleopatra's donkey milk baths to ten-year-old girls putting Drunk Elephant eye creams on their Christmas lists, they explore how women have always been encouraged to prolong youth at their own expense. Digressions include *that* horrifying NYT article, mixed feelings about going grey, and some treasured wisdom from our older binchies.
SOURCES:
- Anti-Aging Medicine: The History: Life Extension and History: The Continual Search for the Fountain of Youth
- Babies' skin is already perfect. Dior wants to sell them a skincare line
- Charting: A Brief History of Anti-Aging
- History Lesson: Centuries Of Anti-Aging Products
- Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body
- No Truth to the Fountain of Youth
- The Craziest Things People Have Done to Try and Stay Young
- The Double Standard of Aging by Susan Sontag
- The "Invisibility" War on Older Women
- The 10-Year-Olds Using Drunk Elephant Beauty Products
- 'There's no ethical way to sell products that target signs of aging'
- They Always Say the Younger You Start, the Better
- Powerless in the Face of Beauty: Helena Rubinstein at the Jewish Museum
- Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
- Why Americans Are Uniquely Afraid to Grow Old
- Woman in Retrograde
- Women, Power, and Aging: An Introduction