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For Women, Aging Is Like a Horror Film
“I live in a body I no longer recognize, a body that feels like it’s actively turning against me. It feels like I’m in a horror film,” writes Paula Froelich for The Free Press. (Via Mubi)
Yes, at 61, Demi Moore is still on screens. But in her new movie, ‘The Substance,’ her character’s body literally falls apart.
By Paula Froelich: Uncensored
09.28.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Over the summer I was at a dinner party in the Hamptons when a friend of a certain age—still a society staple but not getting as many invites as she used to—suddenly pounded her fist on the table and screamed: “I AM INVISIBLE! EVERY WOMAN OVER 60 IS!” 

It was awkward and unexpected. We had been discussing the vagaries of traffic. And here she was, furiou…

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