My Year of Prolonged Suffering and Decrepitude
Binchtopia
Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
The girlies confront one of humanity’s oldest anxieties — our fear of aging. From Cleopatra’s donkey milk baths to ten-year-old girls putting Drunk Elephant eye creams on their Christmas lists, they explore how women have always been encouraged to prolong youth at their own expense. Digressions include *that* horrifying NYT article, mixed feelings about going grey, and some treasured wisdom from our older binchies.
SOURCES:
- Anti-Aging Medicine: The History: Life Extension and History: The Continual Search for the Fountain of Youth
- Babies’ skin is already perfect. Dior wants to sell them a skincare line
- Charting: A Brief History of Anti-Aging
- History Lesson: Centuries Of Anti-Aging Products
- Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body
- No Truth to the Fountain of Youth
- The Craziest Things People Have Done to Try and Stay Young
- The Double Standard of Aging by Susan Sontag
- The “Invisibility” War on Older Women
- The 10-Year-Olds Using Drunk Elephant Beauty Products
- 'There's no ethical way to sell products that target signs of aging'
- They Always Say the Younger You Start, the Better
- Powerless in the Face of Beauty: Helena Rubinstein at the Jewish Museum
- Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
- Why Americans Are Uniquely Afraid to Grow Old
- Woman in Retrograde
- Women, Power, and Aging: An Introduction
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Binch Topia. |
| 0:07.0 | We hope you enjoy your stay. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi everybody, welcome back to Binchtopia. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome back. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Julia Hava, I'm Eliza McClam. |
| 0:21.0 | If you would like to get a Binchtopia episode every week you can go to our |
| 0:24.2 | Patreon which is Patreon.com slash Binchtopia where you can get access to bonus |
| 0:28.7 | episodes, monthly media soads and our monthly zooms. So true our last bonus episode was the return of bad book club and we talked |
| 0:37.0 | about the original bad romance novel 50 Shades of Gray which was a time. It was a time. It was really a time. People love |
| 0:46.3 | these episodes you guys and we really depend on you guys to tell us what bad |
| 0:49.5 | books we need to read next. So like if you're a Patreon Knight and you're telling us like we |
| 0:53.9 | are taking note of your suggestions. Trust. Know that. Because honestly we |
| 0:59.6 | asked so many of you what to do and when we read a court of Thorn and roses and many people |
| 1:05.0 | people are a lot of people are upset about this a lot of people are like why did I read this book for no reason girl we get it the thing is I also read literally almost every single book in that |
| 1:13.7 | series for no reason like I didn't need to because it hooks you it really gets you you |
| 1:18.7 | know really traps you but it's not bad enough to do a bad book club on. So it's kind of like a bad middle ground in that way. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, no, it's true. The thing about bad book club is it needs to be so agree. Like you need to be reading it being like, |
| 1:32.3 | oh, there was no editor involved in this process. |
| 1:34.8 | We need to be cackling, like Eliza and I need to be cackling. |
| 1:39.3 | So yeah, that's the deal with that, but we're loving it. We love reading bad books. I just came back from giving somebody the Rorschock ink blot test, which is very exciting. Do you know what that is? |
| 1:50.0 | Oh, were they crazy? Just kidding. I won't make you break HIPAA right now. |
| 1:53.7 | I mean, it's also like not about that. Like I can't, you can't tell like is someone crazy based on the answers. |
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