Did Nancy Reagan Make Gen Xers Averse to Dating Potheads?
In a new survey by Match, Gen Xers on the site say they aren’t into weed smokers while Millennials and Baby Boomers apparently love them. Who hurt you, Gen X?
It's Not Just Baby Boomers Who Looove TV Shows About the Second Wave
Baby boomers get a lot of flack for glorifying the golden days of the 1960s through television, from programs like Mad Men to CNN’s The Sixties. But as recent pilot pick-ups suggest, their children have been indoctrinated into this obsession as well: A wealth of shows have come up in recent years fixated not on just…
More Retirees Are Opting to Live Like Golden Girls
Say you're getting older and rattling around a big house by yourself has lost its appeal, but you'd rather gnaw off your own wrist than retire to a nursing home. What are your options? Well, many women are now opting for a set-up straight out of Golden Girls.
Stop Being Ageist About Sexting Because Olds Do It, Too
A great way to gauge technological progress is to look at the tawdry uses people have invented for things that would have seemed like miracles thirty years ago. Like, the Internet is a legit miracle, and basically no one cares. If they use the Internet at all, it’s to yell at each other, look at clever pets they’ll…
Rejoice, Slutty Youths: An Instant STD Test Isn't Far Away
If you're anything like me (MILLENNIAL), then you're familiar with our litany of monolithic generational traits — we're all very lazy and entitled. We'd Tase our own mothers in order to get our hands on the newest Apple doodad gadgetamabob. We sext Snapchats to the Kardashians. Teen Mom. Um. Occupy Twilight. Buttsex.
Girls Composer Michael Penn Thinks Hannah’s Millennial Angst Is Really Baby Boomer Angst
Millennials just can't seem to ever get their shit together. They're probably the first generation in, I don't know, FOREVER to feel a sense of directionless angst when they enter young adulthood and have to stop ironically collecting action figures and frequenting their local orgy pits. Certainly the trauma of…
Generation Y Collectively Squirms at the Truths in Lena Dunham’s Girls
If you're a member of the much-maligned generation of nepotistically buoyed slackers born sometime in the late 80s and early 90s and you tuned into the premiere of Lena Dunham's Girls, chances are you squirmed during the show's opening scene, when main character Hannah's "groovy" life of casual sex and unpaid…
Study Shows Olds Know How To Use Phones
Watch out, teenagers! New market research shows baby boomers know how to use smartphones just like you do. What will they learn next?
Over Half Of Boomer Moms Support Adult Kids
A new survey shows many Baby Boomer moms are supporting their adult kids, financially or otherwise. Should we really be surprised?
Mrs. Robinson Probably Has Chlamydia
According to new data out of the UK, "More men over 45 got genital herpes in 2009 than men aged 16 to 19." The Family Planning Association claims that adults over 45 are "oblivious" when it comes to condoms.
Lube Helps Celibate Baby-Boomers Find Love
"I've been celibate for two-plus years. A gal I reunited with after 40-plus years has been celibate for ten. I know it'll be wonderful, but I'm concerned it may hurt her. Suggestions? I am not sure about these lubricants." [MSNBC]
Raiding Mom's Closet Is A Time-Honored Tradition
New York Times "Thursday Styles" columnist Michelle Slatalla has a piece up today about . I sort of disagree about her conclusion — that her daughters steal her clothes because they want to appear older and baby boomers wear youngish clothes because they fear aging (because hello, daughters have been playing dress up…
Why Are Middle-Aged Women Down In The Dumps? I Ask My Mom
According to the World Health Organization,
suicide rates have increased by 60 percent in the last 45 years, with depression — shockingly — as the leading cause. Recently, the numbers have jumped sharply in the U.S., and the trend — a .7% rise in six years — is driven largely by an unexpected group: middle-aged white…
Are You Afraid Of Turning Into Your Parents?
In today's
Sunday Times, author Shane Watson her younger readers that we, too, are going to get old. "We are the generation who think we are never going to turn into our parents, thanks to Boots anti-age serum and our relentlessly youthful mind-set," Watson writes, "Sometimes we might feel a bit creaky in the…
Joan Rivers Gets Booted For Cursing On Air • Demand For "Older" Models Rises
Joan Rivers was kicked off the set of the U.K. show Loose Women after calling Russell Crowe some naughty names on live television (she was unaware the show was filmed live). • Demand for "older" (over 25) models has grown with companies seeking to appeal to baby boomers. • A woman hangs herself after a three-year…
Hollywood's Women Problem Is A Case Of Arrested Development
There are few good parts for women in Hollywood right now. This is an incontrovertible fact. When you become a woman of a certain age, somewhere after 30 and before the hot flashes begin, there are no parts at all. Karen Allen, 56, who will be in the new Indiana Jones movie reprising her role as the plucky Marion…
"The '60's, for those of us who can remember it — I mean, it was such a defining year. I made a list of some of the things that were going on then for the young people: The Vietnam War protests, the Kennedy assassination, Martin Luther King's murder, Civil Rights movement, women's liberation — so much happened..."…
A '90210' Hair Line! Why Didn't We Think Of That...15 Years Ago?
- Jennie Garth and Neve Campbell's hairdresser to shill line of hair care products in infomercials, natch. We think this sounds like an awesome idea... if it were 1992. [WWD, 1st item]
- Nicole Miller has created a new lingerie line which she's naming "3rd Date" since, we guess, that on the 3rd date people who actually…
