The Audacity to Age

TL Cooper
4 min readJun 27, 2019

Is it ageism? Is it sexism? Is it both?

Who gets to decide?

With the release of Madonna’s latest album, Madame X, there have been a lot of people writing about her in ageist, sexist ways while claiming it’s neither ageist nor sexist. If “She’s too old to be making pop music. Grandma needs to shut up.” isn’t sexist and ageist, then what is? She really is a person people love to hate… What exactly is the problem? Is it what she said when she said “I think the most controversial thing I have ever done is to stick around.”?

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TL Cooper

Author & Poet exploring the strength in vulnerability and the vulnerability in strength…