Sex/uality Artifacts

Hello! My name is Christina and I presented my second artifact on Gloria Steinem discussing her feelings about growing older to Oprah Winfrey. Steinem along with Oprah are both important women to society. Steinem was one of the famous faces of the second wave feminism that took place in 1963. I was happy to have found this video because other than pictures there is not much on the Internet about women’s feelings, as they grow older. I thought that it was interesting that a video featuring Steinem could be accessed and that it went well with the article that discussed older women’s views about getting older. It was fascinating to watch this video and hear Steinem discuss her reasons for why she was looking forward to getting older.

In the video (the link is included below), Winfrey cuts right to the chase with asking Steinem “do you fear aging”? Steinem goes on to say that she did fear aging in her 50s but has since taken a different approach to aging, as she grew older. She is in her early 80s now and thinking about aging is something that does not phase her much anymore. Steinem goes on to say at the 0:48 mark that she “loves being older”. She is nervous about death but is more concerned being older than pondering death. This deals with the reading about growing older. The reading discussed how women should be happy that they are growing older and their body is changing. While, Steinem did not confirm that her body’s looks have changed she did discuss how she had reservations about growing older but quickly got over it as she aged through other decades. However, many women think like Steinem and figure that after they turn 50 their life will change in a drastic way when that does not happen majority of the time. I leave these questions for one to think about: How do you view growing older?   What is the life that you see yourself leading into your older adult years? What is something that you would tell a young co-worker or friend about aging?

http://www.oprah.com/own-oprahs-next-chapter/Womens-Rights-Activist-Gloria-Steinem-on-Aging-Video