Irin Carmon Quote

The adoring portrayal of an older woman like RBG as both fierce and knowing, points out the feminist author Rebecca Traister, is a crucial expansion of the American imagination with regard to powerful women. For too long, Traister says, older women have been reduced in our cultural consciousness to nanas, bubbes or ballbusters, nutcrackers, and bitches.

Irin Carmon

The adoring portrayal of an older woman like RBG as both fierce and knowing, points out the feminist author Rebecca Traister, is a crucial expansion of the American imagination with regard to powerful women. For too long, Traister says, older women have been reduced in our cultural consciousness to nanas, bubbes or ballbusters, nutcrackers, and bitches.

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