suntiger - That is helpful, thanks.
La Belle - That's a great way of looking at it.
Becky - Ugh, the article is behind a paywall for me, but hopefully other people can read it in full because it sounds interesting.
Suz - Interesting!
Kari - No worries, feel free to start as many threads as you like. And thank you for finding all of these for us, I'm learning a lot!
Ophelia - I too really hope they can find solutions for this. Unfortunately I've experienced the same issues with faux leather as Kari and Joy :-((
nuancedream - Oooh nice! Keep us posted on those new specs!-)
Carla - Good one! And eye-opening what Lyn Slater said: "‘This is the only way I am ever written about anymore. I feel erased as
an individual; not empowered. I’m not the same as the women who appear
in these features with me, nor are they me….Everything else about me
except for my age is now deemed unimportant or insignificant. In the
guise of addressing ageism my multiple social positions, achievements,
history, and uniqueness are discounted leaving me feeling ever more
invisible. Putting people into “uniforms” strips their identity away and
as I have found in my long career in social welfare, it makes it easier
to neglect and do bad things to them. This is fetishizing age; not
admiring it.’"
These are all excellent, thank you all so much!
