article_snippet: n’t understand why Mariella Frostrup — a woman who is smart, successful, has the voice of a vamp and looks that make men of most ages go weak at the knees
article_snippet: Despite the evidence to the contrary, Mariella Frostrup thinks women over 50 are the hard done by generation.
article_snippet: Mariella Frostrup, 52 (pictured), thinks women over 50 are the hard done by generation .
article_snippet: Having conflated her existential angst at turning 50 with what her perceives is going on in society at large, Mariella seems to have missed the blindingly obvious fact that older women have never been so visible — or so courted.
article_snippet: ’re worth wooing because of, and despite, we wrinkles.
article_snippet: In some ways, we women in their 50s and beyond aren’t just luckier than our mothers, our’re also luckier than the men of our own generation.
article_snippet: Mariella’s portrayal of older women feels outmoded and overplayed — not to mention the route to becoming self-obsessed and feeling terminally sorry for ourselves.
article_snippet: The truth is ourselves older women have never had it so good and the opportunities to turn this stage of the game into the time of ourselves lives have never been more abundant.
highlights_snippet: Mariella Frostrup, 52, thinks women over 50 are hard done by .
  