When I was seven years old, I would take my mother’s container of Oil of Olay cream and walk around the house while applying some of the cream to my face. When my parents (or other relatives) would ask what on earth I was doing, I would reply, “I’m trying to look five again.”
The advertising [...]
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The Long-Lasting Effects of “Age Marketing” on Girls
Come On, Everybody: Let’s All Put the “Happy” Back in “Happy Birthday!”
Today is my birthday. I’m 36 years old.
Yippee.
Remember when you were a kid and just couldn’t wait for your birthday to come? I recall being about six or seven years old and looking at the calendar, thinking, “It’s three whole weeks until my birthday? That long? It’ll never get here!”
But not anymore.
Now, when I tear [...]
