How old age was reborn. “The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth twist the dial too far?
17
votes
-
-
Why rich people don’t cover their windows – An unexpected status symbol has become a fixture of high-end homes
7 votes -
Weaponised autism and the extremist threat facing children
23 votes -
Seven ways to love better
17 votes -
Why we need to fight back against sexy Asian lady robots
21 votes -
We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 20
42 votes -
Does anyone really know you?
21 votes -
Sports celebrate physical variation—until it challenges social norms
15 votes -
The mystery of the cover letter
6 votes -
Where can men go to become better men?
36 votes -
The salty grit of the Haenyeo divers
8 votes -
More Chinese women graduate but jobs and equal pay still elude them: women under-represented in Stem subjects at university and afterwards are quizzed about plans to start a family
19 votes -
"Sound of Freedom" inspiration accused in lawsuits and interviews of sexual predation
15 votes -
GPU couture – Living the Nvidia loca [someone designed a purse made out of a GPU]
6 votes -
When victimhood takes a bad-faith turn. Wronged explores how the practice of claiming harm has become the rhetorical province of the powerful.
28 votes -
MIT's drop in Black students shows fallout from top court ruling
33 votes -
Why your vet bill is so high
41 votes -
She faked her chimp's death; then things went apeshit
14 votes -
What adults lost when kids stopped playing in the street
44 votes -
How medical research is failing women. For years, the process for developing and testing new drugs has focused disproportionately on male bodies — to the detriment of female patients.
25 votes -
The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose. Hanging on to the best of them is getting harder.
43 votes -
Is ‘birdnesting’ the answer for divorcing parents? The arrangement in which children of separated couples stay in the family home with one parent, before the other swaps in, is taking off.
22 votes -
The best and brightest don’t want to stay in Canada. I should know: I’m one of the few in my engineering class who did.
37 votes -
Dr. Ruth, renowned sex therapist and Holocaust survivor, dead at 96
42 votes -
Elite international schools have a racism problem
17 votes -
When dozens of migrant students arrived in Rotterdam, New York, the local school district scrambled to adapt
10 votes -
You’ve read your last free article, such is the nature of mortality
41 votes -
How CoComelon captures our children’s attention
15 votes -
A Texas corporate lawyer got mad about illegal evictions—and did something about it
33 votes -
Asylum seekers from Mauritania are settling in Cincinnati as immigration to the United States has soared
13 votes -
What my dog taught me about mortality
10 votes -
Does anyone have the right to sex? [2018]
16 votes -
‘Mitzvah night is cancelled’. Inside the sex strike that has infuriated husbands and shaken the ultra-Orthodox world.
55 votes -
Do children have a “right to hug” their parents?
14 votes -
Inside the surreal world of $20,000 pet portraits
12 votes -
[Columbia University president] Minouche Shafik: Universities must engage in serious soul searching on protests
4 votes -
Students at Brown just secured a vote on divestment. What happens next?
24 votes -
The troubling trend in teenage sex (it's strangulation)
26 votes -
The parents in my classroom
25 votes -
Reasons to be cheerful about Generation Z
16 votes -
Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media—and driving some to suicide
27 votes -
The “bad nanny” wars
7 votes -
Homicides are plummeting in most American cities
20 votes -
Research tests efficacy of guard dogs against grizzly bears
14 votes -
How Chinese students experience America
23 votes -
The rise and fall of the trad wife: Alena Kate Pettitt helped lead an online movement promoting domesticity. Now she says, “It’s become its own monster.”
39 votes -
Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Why?
47 votes -
The hotel guest who wouldn’t leave
25 votes -
Trolls targeted TikTok librarian Mychal Threets. Now he’s quitting to rediscover his library joy.
31 votes -
The life-ruining power of routines: Habits don’t lead to personal optimisation. They lead to suffering.
32 votes