Some of the grandmothers I know are a surgeon, a judge and professors, while many others belong to the English literary canon
I was avoiding the real news last week and reading instead an article about “Granny heels” which are, apparently, blocky high-heeled shoes in which it’s relatively easy to walk. A day or two earlier – while running, inevitably, and wearing shoes designed for the job – I was curbing any nascent tendency to feel okay about myself with a podcast about why pretty much all food is bad for you, which included the instruction not to eat anything whose ingredients your granny wouldn’t recognise.
I don’t know quite when and how granny became the byword for dimness. The grandmothers I know are at least as high-powered as my younger friends. Some of them have quite senior jobs: a surgeon, a judge, several professors. Others, now free from long working hours, are putting decades of experience into freelance projects and voluntary work, much of it involving technical competence far beyond that of most of the undergraduates I encounter.
I suppose these hardened businesswomen are the opposite of the granny who doesn’t dress up any more and can’t understand ultra-processed food. Older women can be witches or sweet doddery old things, or sometimes one masquerading as the other, but not whole humans who are attractive and have passions and capacities and expertise beyond home-baking. No wonder some cling to youth.
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