Common Representations of Age
- Rebellious teen
- Senile old woman/man
- Cradle robbing woman
- Male in a mid-life crisis
- Middle-age woman clinging to her youth
- Silly old man
- Social group in school (nerd, popular etc)
- And the list goes on.
Thanks to the media, we appear to live in an age obsessed world: a world obsessed with youth and its attendant beauty. Old people are often subject to the most rigid stereotypes of all (old = ugly, weak, stupid). The future looks pretty bleak for all of us.
- Rebellious teen
- Senile old woman/man
- Cradle robbing woman
- Male in a mid-life crisis
- Middle-age woman clinging to her youth
- Silly old man
- Social group in school (nerd, popular etc)
- And the list goes on.
Thanks to the media, we appear to live in an age obsessed world: a world obsessed with youth and its attendant beauty. Old people are often subject to the most rigid stereotypes of all (old = ugly, weak, stupid). The future looks pretty bleak for all of us.
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