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Share a BookAn Elderly Lady is Up to No Good
The author said she was asked to contribute a short story to a Christmas anthology. Boring, she thought. Then Maud presented herself. 88 year old, never married Swedish woman...serial killer. Charming. Creepy. Hilarious.
Stumbled on it at my local library--apparently it has been translated in quite a few languages, and doesn't look new. But I didn't see a post about it here so I thought I'd recommend it. I laughed out loud.
Trigger warning: domestic violence
Anyone else read it and find it so delightful?
Edit: Author is Helene Tursten
You mean their primary clientele? Lmao. They'll have to learn the hard way. You know we're just old jealous haha if we dare say "Hey...you think maybe this is gonna turn out really bad for you in ten years??"
Yes, and I was just discussing this with my dad the other day, the way that men have set up society to be like we are prey animals and they are predators, and they divide the young vulnerable ones from the old by socializing females (and everyone) to hate older women, to fear becoming an older woman, to not respect older women's wisdom (and thus not benefit from their experiences, which would be: men are trash, stay away from them).
Exactly.
Older women's voices have been in the media for decades, it's just that people rip them to shreds for being "old and out of touch". Look at the responses to any feminists when they wanted to ban porn back in the 80s.
People sure do listen to old men though. They run the fucking country and are constantly getting up to share their opinions and everyone hushes to listen. Makes me fucking sick since none of it is useful or important
I recently found out that r/FDS has a pretty significant overlap with dating over 30/40 subs, and 'men are trash, stay away from them' is practically its core tenet, but it's rejected in the mainstream even by a lot of younger women. I wonder if being brainwashed against these 'older women perspectives' has to do with the backlash against it.
Yeah, you even see it with 13 and 14 year olds when women in their late teens/early 20s tell them not to post sexual content online. We're taught to scorn older women and revere older men. Ageism against women is a massive, massive problem, and it seems to be getting worse in our youth-obsessed culture. I'm in my early 20s and I remember being terrified of aging even as a 12-13 year old because I knew it would make people devalue/objectify me.
FDS is what led me here. I'm eternally grateful.