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Article: Fluffing up 50
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 8, 1996
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Colette Dowling's "Red Hot Mamas: Coming Into Our Own at Fifty"
is meant to be inspirational reading for women of a certain age. So
why did I find it vaguely dispiriting?
The low point came, I think, when I read the phrase
"incontinence, the final taboo." Gee. I hope it's the final taboo.
But I have a feeling it won't be. Nothing about the aging process
seems taboo these days, as my generation moves reluctantly but
inexorably graveward.
Who are these red-hot mamas? They're babes, apparently. "They
wear their skirts short, their feet weighted down with Doc Martens,"
Dowling writes. OK, they're clinging desperately to the illusion of
youth. What else?
They "don't relate to being ...